“Procrustean Psychotherapy” or Differential Therapeutics: Teaching Treatment Selection to Trainees

Most clinical training programs and treatment facilities offer a relatively narrow range of treatment alternatives to their interns and therefore produce “procrustean psychotherapists.” One way to remedy this unfortunate situation is to emphasize the importance of differential therapeutics and treatment selection at the outset of their training program. A suggestion on how to accomplish this on a minor scale is described in this paper.