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The Art and Angst of the Mentoring Relationship

Lori L. Davis; Marc S. Little; William L. Thornton

Academic Psychiatry 1997;21:61-71.

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The authors thank Kenneth Z.Altshuler, M.D., Stanton Sharp Distinguished Chair and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, for his encouragement and administrative support.

Department of Psychiatry, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas

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The authors review the ancient mentoring relationship in Homer's Odyssey and the mentoring discourse of Socrates. These relationships illustrate the art of inspiring a searching quality in the subject and the angst of the struggle that accompanies perplexity and unknowing. The developmental stages of the mentor and resident in psychiatric training are reviewed. A spectrum of teaching interventions are discussed as they might be perceived by the student. Finally, Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" is used as a metaphor for the art of enlightenment and angst of learning and teaching in the mentoring relationship.

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Lori L. Davis, Marc S. Little, William L. Thornton; The Art and Angst of the Mentoring Relationship. Academic Psychiatry. 1997 Jun;21(2):61-71.

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