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The Scientific Standing of Psychoanalysis
The Scientific Standing of Psychoanalysis
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Psychodynamic
THEMATIC PAPER psychotherapy training
in South East Asia: a distance learning
pilot program
César A. Alfonso,1 Limas Sutanto,2 Hazli Zakaria,3 Rasmon Kalayasiri,4 Petrin
Redayani Lukman,5 Sylvia Detri Elvira5 and
Aida Syarinaz Ahmad Adlan6
1
Associate Professor of
Psychiatry, Columbia University Populous countries in the Asia–Pacific region have Asian psychiatrists have a keen interest in
Medical Center, New York, USA; adequate psychiatric residency curricula but inad- improving psychodynamic psychotherapy
email caa2105@cumc.columbia.
edu equate psychotherapy clinical supervision, and education. Liaisons with the Royal College of
2
Universitas Brawijaya, Malang, the paucity of training programs reflects how Psychiatrists in Thailand, the Malaysian
East Java, Indonesia underserved psychiatry is in this zone (Ruiz & Psychiatric Association and the University of
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
3
Bhugra, 2008; Tasman et al, 2009). Cognitive Indonesia gave rise to our multi- national,
Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia behavioural therapy is systematically taught in collaborative, pedagogic endeavour (Alfonso et al,
Chulalongkorn University,
4 most of Asia but other modalities such as support- 2018). The WPA pilot program was designed to
Bangkok, Thailand ive, interpersonal, dialectic behavioural, group, take place over 5 years, targeting three countries
5
Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, marital, family and psychodynamic psychothera- (see Table 1). It was designed to be
Indonesia
pies are not well supervised. It is challenging to self-sustaining – with the aim of improving the psy-
Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur,
6
Malaysia
bridge these gaps given the demands of high chotherapy skills of those enrolled in study
volume services and few formally trained supervi- activities and teaching psychiatrists how to
Conflicts of interest. None. sors. Initiatives have been implemented to supervise – so that, after completion, psychiatrists
improve psychotherapy training in Asia (Alfonso et could work effectively
© The Authors 2018. This is an
Open Access article, distributed al, 2018). The most widely recognised among as psychotherapy supervisors.
under the terms of the Creative these in- itiatives is the China American
Commons Attribution-
Psychoanalytic Alliance program, which is Phase 1: full-day workshops to improve
NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
licence (http://creativecommons. largely conducted through videoconferencing clinical skills
org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which
(Fishkin et al, 2011). This article describes an Full-day psychodynamic psychotherapy workshops
permits non-commercial re-use,
distribution, and reproduction in abridged program designed to provide advanced took place at meetings sponsored by the national
any medium, provided the ori- psychotherapy training in underserved areas psychiatric societies in Jakarta, Surabaya, Kuala
ginal work is unaltered and is
properly cited. The written per- with limited peda- gogical resources. Although Lumpur and Bangkok between 2013 and 2014.
mission of Cambridge University the program was piloted in Asia, our hope is that The hosting psychiatric society selected local psy-
Press must be obtained for
com- mercial re-use or in order it could be adapted or replicated in other areas chiatrists to run workshop modules according
to cre- ate a derivative work. with similar needs. to the experts’ areas of interest (see Table 2).
The World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Clinical correlations and applicability of psycho-
Psychotherapy, Education in Psychiatry, and dynamic thinking in a variety of settings were
Psychoanalysis in Psychiatry Sections identified emphasised. Attendance ranged from 35 to 50 peo-
that ple; a manageable number for the maintenance of