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CAN THE DERMATOLOGIST DO PSYCHOTHERAPY?
PHILIP F. D. SEITZ, M.D.;
JAMES S. GOSMAN, M.D.
AMA Arch Derm Syphilol. 1952;66(2):180-190.
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THE PURPOSE of this report is to propose an answer to the question: Can the dermatologist do psychotherapy? We—one a psychiatrist and the other a dermatologist—have worked in more or less close association for several years and have concluded that the answer to this question is a qualified "Yes." In the present report we shall attempt to specify and illustrate the important qualifications which we attach to our affirmative answer: (1) qualifications for the dermatologist; (2) qualifications for the patient; (3) qualifications for the psychotherapy.
QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE DERMATOLOGIST
The dermatologist who asks, "Can I do psychotherapy?'' must first ask himself this question: "Do I enjoy helping people to resolve emotional problems, or is it a burden for me to provide this kind of service for patients ?'' We doubt that a physician could do a good job of psychotherapy if he despised what he was doing. On the other hand,
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Author Affiliations
INDIANAPOLIS
From the Division of Psychiatric Research, Department of Neuropsychiatry, and the Department of Dermatology, Indiana University Medical Center, and the Indianapolis General Hospital.
Footnotes
Support for this study was provided by the Indiana Council for Mental Health.
Read before the Symposium on Psychosomatic Medicine and Dermatology at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology and Syphilology, Chicago, Dec. 11, 1951.
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