Television as Participant Recorder
HARRY A. WILMER M.D., PH.D.1
1 Clinical professor of psychiatry, University of California School of Medicine, and Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, San Francisco, Calif. 94122
The use of television videotaping and replay in a psychiatric residency program, as described here, offers unique learning opportunities for both teacher and student in the supervision of psychotherapy. The camera may be regarded as a participant recorder, capturing a relationship of reciprocal human behavior in the short videotaped interview and presenting an "audiovisual biopsy" in the replay.
