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Sensitivity Group Experience for Trainee Psychiatrists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Kay Cash*
Affiliation:
Uffculme Clinic, Birmingham
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Participation in a sensitivity group as part of the general training of a psychiatrist is recommended.1,2 There are, however, obstacles to obtaining this experience, which may be practical or personal. Particularly in a peripheral hospital, there may be no such group available. A conductor should have sufficient experience as well as enthusiasm, and if the conductor is well known to the trainees or perhaps a member of the consultant staff, this may provoke personal anxieties in the participants. Finding a time in the widely differing schedules of participants, when all are free to attend is a problem, and further difficulties are presented by duty rotas and trainee rotations.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1984

References

1 Bloch, S. (ed) (1979) An Introduction to the Psychotherapies. Oxford Medical Publications.Google Scholar
2 Crown, S. (1979) Individual long-term psychotherapy. In An Introduction to the Psychotherapies (ed. Bloch, S.). Oxford Medical Publications.Google Scholar
3 Lieberman, S., Hafner, R. J. & Crisp, A. H. (1978) Teaching psychotherapy in mental hospitals. British Journal of Psychiatry, 132, 398402.Google Scholar
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