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If Freud had not been a doctor ...

Department of Mental Health Sciences, St George's Hospital Medical School, Cranmer Terrace, London SW17 0RE

If psychoanalytic psychotherapy is to be part of the undergraduate medical curriculum, it must be well taught, and demonstrably relevant to the training of doctors. Psychotherapy teachers have a responsibility to devise a syllabus which is clear and relevant and to provide teaching which stimulates and engages the students so that they learn by thinking and understanding. An outline of a syllabus for medical students is included and one seminar as an illustration of interactive learning is described.