How to Start Dynamic Psychotherapy for Psychosis

Psychology Today | 29.03.2026 00:03
When I’m teaching psychiatry residents, medical students, or psychotherapy trainees about psychodynamic therapy for psychosis, I frequently hear the same refrain. They very much see the need for the work and want to do it, but are intimidated by the idea that therapy with psychotic people is very different than it is with other patient populations, and that they would have no idea how to begin.