The Riggs Difference: Where Understanding Leads to Recovery
David Mintz, MD, authored "The Frame Under Assault" in Psychiatric News.
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"Effective psychotherapy depends on the therapeutic frame: a consistent, predictable set of conditions for treatment, including boundaries around space, time, fees, confidentiality, roles, and tasks. The frame grounds the treatment in reality, creating a setting in which the patient’s inner world can be safely explored. The frame frees patients to bring the full range of their feelings, from love to hate, without fear that love will turn into conquest, greed will consume the therapist, or hate will destroy."
DOI: 10.1176/appi.pn.2025.10.10.24