RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TRAINING THERAPISTS BASED ON MANUALS FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY-RESEARCH

A treatment manual for supportive-expressive psychoanalytic psychother apy was written in order to train therapists in this form of treatment . Based on psychotherapy research over the last fifteen years, as well as extensive experience in training therapists with the manual, sever al recommendations are presented. These recommendations propose what i ssues should be emphasized in training, as well as proposed teaching m ethods which have proven effective. Typical resistances by trainees to teaching efforts are also discussed.