Ekstein states that most psychology students, for personal reasons, tend to make the learning experience a substitute for psychiatric treatment. This complicates the task of the psychology teacher because, although teaching psychology is not psychotherapy, there are psychotherapeutic by-products. The teacher in

the field, therefore, must pay particular attention to the reactions of the students to the material, to their fellow students and to the teacher. He must equip himself with the necessary knowledge and skill to refer his students to the proper psychiatric resources, if necessary. He must manoeuvre between the danger of impersonal textbook lecturing and the temptation to make the course an experience in group psychotherapy.