Affiliation:
1. Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Abstract
ObjectiveTo review a rebuttal to widely published concerns that the Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) devalues the role of long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy as a treatment in mood disorders.ConclusionThere is a wider context to this debate. The CPG presents the RANZCP with a dilemma about treatments, professionalism and policy; it requires amendment.
Subject
Psychiatry and Mental health