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Moving Away from Understanding: Personal Therapy in Contemporary Doctoral Education

Tartaglia, Michael Paul
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1373372351

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2013, Psy. D., Antioch University, Antioch New England: Clinical Psychology.
Personal therapy has never been a training requirement for clinical psychology in the American Psychological Association (APA). This became more evident when the field of Clinical Psychology at the Boulder Conference over 30 years ago in which personal therapy was omitted as a requirement of doctoral education because there was a lack of sufficient empirical evidence to support such a mandate in the United States. While there has been research in the field of psychodynamic theory on personal therapy, the stance taken during the Boulder Conference (and to some extent the Chicago and Vail Conferences thereafter) continues to be the standard in regards to the training of psychologists. This has resulted in new psychologists having limited understanding of themselves and, at times, difficult or impaired relationships with their clients. This dissertation will look at the original psychoanalytic writings on training analysis and will use these points to explain the more recent literature on the utility of personal therapy, particularly in countries that still require it. In addition to these main points, the arguments against personal therapy will also be included to help showcase both sides of the issue. Using three major studies on personal therapy, this dissertation will use the themes found in the literature review to see if there is still a justification for not requiring personal therapy, as well as providing personal opinions on why the field has moved away from self-understanding and towards a predominantly outcome-focused approach to psychotherapy.
Susan Hawes, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Lorraine Mangione, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
David Hamolsky, Psy.D. (Committee Member)
85 p.
Clinical Psychology
Personal therapy; training analysis; doctoral education; psychologist education

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  • Tartaglia, M. P. (2013). Moving Away from Understanding: Personal Therapy in Contemporary Doctoral Education [Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1373372351

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Tartaglia, Michael. Moving Away from Understanding: Personal Therapy in Contemporary Doctoral Education. 2013. Antioch University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1373372351.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Tartaglia, Michael. "Moving Away from Understanding: Personal Therapy in Contemporary Doctoral Education." Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1373372351

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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