Choosing Appropriate Techniques

By Frederick S. Mendelsohn, M.D.
| July 1, 2003

Dr. Mendelsohn is assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons in New York City.

This case tends to support the theory that the use of supportive techniques, which are intended to increase the patient's adaptive capabilities, can be more therapeutically beneficial than are techniques designed to guide the patient's behavior based on decisions made by the therapist.

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