Abstract
The community psychiatry training programs, in response to national need, have begun to train psychiatrists who are not given much basic clinical psychiatry training. This poses some serious problems. The community psychiatrist does not usually function in immediate relationship to the people with whom he is concerned. It is thus easier to dehumanize people and see them as a mass to be manipulated. Clinical training, with continued clinical work, not only sensitizes one to transference and countertransference problems of individuals and group psychotherapeutic work vital to self-awareness in all interpersonal situations, but it also keeps one focused on the individual human being and his needs and reactions to programs and process. It also makes it possible to utilize clinical acumen in all of one's interpersonal relations at all levels.
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