The Practice and Roles of the Psychotherapies: A Discussion Paper

The 7 main objectives of this paper are as follows:• To comprehensively detail the efficacy ofthe psychotherapies.• To detail why skills in the psychotherapies are essential to the effective and competent functioning of contemporary psychiatrists.• To establish a balance between the practice and use ofboth short-term and long-term therapies.• To establish definitively that the psychotherapies must be included as a central component of core psychiatric serv-Ices.