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Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.10.887

In summary, the teaching of the principles of ambulant psychotherapy depends upon the development in the trainee of sufficient personal security to facilitate a helpful relationship to the patient and sufficient sophistication to promote adequate communication. These goals can be achieved if the staff has broad clinical experience, can provide a broad spectrum of psychodynamic theory and insists that the trainee is confronted by a range of patient material beginning with persons culturally similar to himself and extending from this beginning to as wide a cultural range as the situation will permit.

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