ABSTRACT
The psychotherapeutic basic tools (PBT) is a teaching program for residents at the beginning of their psychiatric career. The training course on psychotherapeutic basic tools, the PBT, wants to alert residents to the concepts of working in and working with the therapeutic relationship. In PBT, psychoanalysis is not taught directly, but it is used as an instrument to help the residents take their affects seriously, to watch the patient carefully and to be open-minded, that is to use one’s free floating attention, and in the end to be able to define the unconscious relational patterns connected to the patient’s symptomatology. The best training in psychoanalysis for the resident is to sense – as it were – a psychodynamic atmosphere within the institution, to feel that the personal resonance, the affects in the therapist, the conflicts between members of the staff all are seen as potentially relevant to the therapeutic outcome.
