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Bell CC. The need for psychoanalysis is alive and well in community psychiatry. J Natl Med Assoc. 1979;71(4):361-8
Bell, C. C. (1979). The need for psychoanalysis is alive and well in community psychiatry. Journal of the National Medical Association, 71(4), 361-8.
Bell, C C. "The need for psychoanalysis is alive and well in community psychiatry." Journal of the National Medical Association vol. 71,4 (1979): 361-8.
Bell CC. The need for psychoanalysis is alive and well in community psychiatry. J Natl Med Assoc. 1979 Apr;71(4):361-8. PMID: 439170; PMCID: PMC2537370.
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J Natl Med Assoc. 1979 Apr;71(4):361-8.

The need for psychoanalysis is alive and well in community psychiatry.

Journal of the National Medical Association

C C Bell

PMID: 439170 PMCID: PMC2537370

Abstract

While the author recognizes the positive impact community psychiatry has had on postpsychotic patients by the uses of medical management and environmental manipulation, he demonstrates that there is a deficiency in the treatment of lower socioeconomic patients with neurotic illnesses. Specifically, neurotic patients tend to be given supportive therapy and psychopharmacotherapy when a form of psychoanalytic psychotherapy would be more appropriate. The author supports these contentions by presenting three cases which have a diagnosis of hysterical neurosis and which clearly demonstrate the economic, topographical, structural, dynamic, and genetic components of the psychoanalytic theory. Finally, as psychoanalytic psychotherapy is too time-consuming, the author suggests that Freud's early psychoanalytic technique of symptom removal by memory recovery be used when appropriate.

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