Psychiatry is part of medicine, and developing competence to deal with
the mental life of patients is an essential part of general medical as well
as psychiatric subspecialty education. As psychiatry's neurobiological data
base, therapeutic armamentarium, scope of interest, and philosophical views
expand and competitive pressures for time in residency training are
intensified, teaching in the mental sciences and opportunities for
residents to develop solid psychodynamic diagnostic and therapeutic skills
are rapidly disappearing. However, brain science does not yet, and probably
never will, fully explain the mind. The author urges psychiatric educators
not to give up the mind or, worse yet, lose it by default.Abstract Teaser