About the psychiatrists' psychotherapeutic action

The issue of psychotherapy training has much been revolved these last years as a great number of techniques are now available. So, at first, a definit ion and a new classification must be purposed to make this question more cl arified. The proliferation of these techniques and many others factors led to the emergence of a new trend which is connected with the electric and in tegration wave. From this point of view, the common factors theory, based o n scientific data, should be meant for taking a large place and could give a strong basis for a training programm for further practitionners which sho uld start by training and learning such general assumptions of psychotherap y before considering more specialized techniques. Psychotherapy must remain a function in a medical field and should not become an independent profess ion as some people currently claim more by corporatism than on scientific c onsideration. This opinion must be emphasized. This medical field may be ex tended to a broader number of practitionners beyond the medical practitionn ers and psychiatrists, taking in account the nurses' and psychologists' col laboration, but under the psychiatrists' supervision on the requirement of their own comprehensive vocational training in this way.