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Dr Rangell: There was a cluster of interest and papers around 1954, all of which resulted in the publication of 12 or 15 papers in a whole issue of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, in an attempt to clarify the grey area of theory and technique of dynamic psychotherapy. There was then a lull in interest and I am glad to see that it has been revived. In my own paper on that subject I tried to delineate precisely the area which is the focus of this panel—the similarities and differences between the two areas. What is necessary is an equal kind of conceptualization, if that is possible, between a much more amorphous area of psychotherapy in comparison with the more structured and definable area of psychoanalysis. People are working towards that end, and we need further study. We need the raw clinical data of this area of psychotherapy. Many people are studying it and have studied it for many years: Dr Wallerstein himself and his team at the Menninger Clinic; Dr Zetzel in Boston; and another team at Mount Sinai in Los Angeles. This is not a completely empty field. Attempts at conceptualization have been made and good ones. I refer to Dr Sidney Tarachow's book on psychotherapy. There is a small, clear, excellent book by Dr Tedesco on very brief psychotherapy: and the vast literature on borderline patients who come for treatment contained various attempts at conceptualization in the techniques of this field.
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