Wolpert L, Fonagy P. There is no place for the psychoanalytic case report in the British Journal of Psychiatry.
Br J Psychiatry 2009;
195:483-7. [PMID:
19949194 DOI:
10.1192/bjp.bp.109.064451]
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Abstract
As evidence-based mental health and the randomised controlled trial come to dominate the content of major psychiatric journals, the status and clinical utility of single case reports have been increasingly questioned. Arguably, owing to their subjective, anecdotal nature and unsuitability for rigorous scientific testing, this is particularly true of psychoanalytic case studies. Professor Peter Fonagy and Professor Lewis Wolpert debate here whether or not there is a place for such case reports in the British Journal of Psychiatry.
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