{Reference Type}: Journal Article {Title}: Policy, professionalism and psychotherapy; the clinical practice guidelines' dilemma. {Author}: Anaf G;Prager S; {Journal}: Australas Psychiatry {Volume}: 31 {Issue}: 3 {Year}: 06 2023 24 {Factor}: 1.837 {DOI}: 10.1177/10398562221140997 {Abstract}: To review a rebuttal to widely published concerns that the Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) devalues the role of long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy as a treatment in mood disorders.
There is a wider context to this debate. The CPG presents the RANZCP with a dilemma about treatments, professionalism and policy; it requires amendment.