Weave Psychotherapy Curriculum
Thirteen open-access volumes covering history, foundations, every major modality, landmark trials, and a 130-MCQ question bank. Built for residents preparing for MD, DNB, INI-CET, NEET SS and RGUHS exit exams.
Why this curriculum exists
Psychotherapy is hard to study from textbooks alone
Indian residents routinely get viva and OSCE questions on Schema Therapy, DBT skills, CBT formulation and EFT, but those modalities sit outside the standard curriculum and outside Kaplan & Sadock's depth.
These thirteen volumes pull the whole field into one place, free to read. Each one is written for the postgraduate exam, by a resident sitting them.
The 13 volumes
Follow the rail, or open the volume you need
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Whole-Syllabus Sprint
A single document that walks the entire psychotherapy syllabus in 2-3 hours. The night-before-the-exam read.
History, Common Factors & Ethics
History of psychotherapy, Wampold's common factors, therapeutic alliance, ethics, research methodology, outcome studies.
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Freud through contemporary practice. Drive theory, ego psychology, object relations, self psychology, the relational and intersubjective turn.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
Beck and Ellis. Cognitive models, automatic thoughts, schemas, thought records, restructuring, behavioural experiments, plus disorder-specific protocols.
Behaviour Therapy
Classical and operant conditioning, systematic desensitization, exposure and response prevention, behavioural activation, contingency management.
DBT, ACT, MBCT, CFT, Schema Therapy
The third wave of CBT. Linehan's DBT, Hayes's ACT, Segal's MBCT, Gilbert's compassion-focused therapy, Young's Schema Therapy. Mechanism, technique, evidence.
Humanistic & Existential Therapies
Rogers's person-centred therapy, Perls's Gestalt, Yalom's existential approach, Maslow, Frankl's logotherapy.
IPT, EMDR, MBT, TFP, MI, EFT, TA
Interpersonal therapy, EMDR for trauma, mentalisation-based therapy, transference-focused psychotherapy, motivational interviewing, emotion-focused therapy, transactional analysis.
Group, Family & Couples Therapy
Yalom's therapeutic factors and group process, Minuchin's structural family therapy, Bowen's intergenerational model, Gottman's couples research.
Special Populations
Child and adolescent psychotherapy, psychosis-adapted therapy (CBTp, MBT-ED), culturally adapted therapy for Indian patients.
Disorder-Specific Therapy Map
One master table. Every major psychiatric disorder mapped to first-line and second-line psychotherapy, with evidence tier and Cochrane references. The viva cheat sheet.
Landmark Psychotherapy Trials
The trials every psychiatrist is expected to know: STAR*D, NIMH TDCRP, Linehan 1991, Bateman & Fonagy 2008, Young's Schema Therapy RCTs. Findings and clinical impact.
130+ MCQs with Explanations
Question bank across every modality, single-best-answer format, with worked explanations and references. Built for INI-CET, NEET SS and exit exam practice.
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Looking for the rest of the residency material?
Exam prep notes across all four papers, plus the Assimilate deep-study modules.