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.
Psychotherapy is the part of residency that's hardest 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.
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A single document that walks the entire psychotherapy syllabus in 2–3 hours. The night-before-the-exam read.
History of psychotherapy, Wampold's common factors, therapeutic alliance, ethics, research methodology, outcome studies.
Freud through contemporary practice. Drive theory, ego psychology, object relations, self psychology, the relational and intersubjective turn.
Beck and Ellis. Cognitive models, automatic thoughts, schemas, thought records, restructuring, behavioural experiments, plus disorder-specific protocols.
Classical and operant conditioning, systematic desensitization, exposure and response prevention, behavioural activation, contingency management.
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.
Rogers's person-centred therapy, Perls's Gestalt, Yalom's existential approach, Maslow, Frankl's logotherapy.
Interpersonal therapy, EMDR for trauma, mentalisation-based therapy, transference-focused psychotherapy, motivational interviewing, emotion-focused therapy, transactional analysis.
Yalom's therapeutic factors and group process, Minuchin's structural family therapy, Bowen's intergenerational model, Gottman's couples research.
Child and adolescent psychotherapy, psychosis-adapted therapy (CBTp, MBT-ED), culturally adapted therapy for Indian patients.
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.
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.
Question bank across every modality, single-best-answer format, with worked explanations and references. Built for INI-CET, NEET SS and exit exam practice.
Looking for the rest of the residency material? Exam prep notes across all four papers, plus the Assimilate deep-study modules.
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