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i was gonna rank wash u high as well. i am not sure which houston prog is psychoanalytical but i am curious how u have baylor which is good in psychotherapy (if i am not mistaken) and wash u is of course the opposite. i also am not too picky about the slant of a program but since psychotherapy cant be taught i would like a program that does it well.
it is my understanding that wash u is good in certain forms of psychotherapy but is anti-psychoanalytical. i think they discourage u from doing long term psychotherapy. if i were to match there, could i address this by doing electives in it or by choosing certain supervisors? i met a psychologist who trained at wash u and she does know her meds better than me. however she trained there years ago but she was telling me that they train the research heavy residents better than the clinical ones. dont get me wrong. i really like wash u but i want good training in psychotherapy.
it is my understanding that wash u is good in certain forms of psychotherapy but is anti-psychoanalytical. i think they discourage u from doing long term psychotherapy. if i were to match there, could i address this by doing electives in it or by choosing certain supervisors? i met a psychologist who trained at wash u and she does know her meds better than me. however she trained there years ago but she was telling me that they train the research heavy residents better than the clinical ones. dont get me wrong. i really like wash u but i want good training in psychotherapy.
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Just my opinion....While I want training in psychodynamics, the alaphabet soup therapies--CBT, DBT, IPT--have more evidence to support their use and I feel are much more important to be good at then psychodynamics. In addition, those therapies are much more "cost effective" and easier on the pocket books for patients and can be much easier to fit into a med check. I think that future psychiatrists should be first and foremost excellent in medical and biological psychiatry, then be strong in CBT, DBT, and IPT...So, even though I didn't interview at Wash U, it sounds like they are training psychiatrists very well. Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-psychoanalytical; but I personally wouldn't be turned off by a program that is, given that there is little evidence to support its use....
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One of the interviewers told me the residents will learn some of the therapies really well and learn how these apply to all psychotherapy. He also said that those who are looking to incorporate a lot of psychotherapy/psychoanalysis (and want to do it well) really need more training beyond residency. Although there is a psychoanalytic institue in St. Louis, I didn't get the impression the residents are encouraged to pursue this. So if you want to learn psychotherapy really well, I think Baylor is the place for you.
Baylor ended up 5th for a complexity of reasons. Because most of what I will end up doing will not include intense psychotherapy, the psychotherapy strength of the program was less important for me. I have been in Houston for medical school and really would like to be in a different part of the country. Certain things about psychiatric funding and the marginalization of psychiatry in Texas have really bothered me so I want to see what it's like to practice psychiatry where that is lesser of an issue. Funding really wouldn't be an issue at Baylor though.
Happy ranking!
