Psychotherapy: The Views of Psychiatrists from Scotland and Nassau County, New York
FRED B. CHARATAN M.D.1, and
IRA ROSENBLATT PH.D.2
1 Director, community mental health services, Nassau County Mental Health Board, 240 Old Country Rd., Mineola, N. Y. 11501
2 Associate director for research, Nassau County Mental Health Board, 240 Old Country Rd., Mineola, N. Y. 11501
Questionnaires were sent to 151 members of the Nassau Neuropsychiatric Society and to 184 members of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association in Scotland regarding attitudes toward psychotherapy and the extent of its use in psychiatric practice. The implications of the results are discussed in terms of the future of psychotherapy in community mental health centers.
