The Bodily Unconscious in Psychoanalytic Technique


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The Bodily Unconscious in Psychoanalytic Technique explores how corporeality and body memory can be more strongly integrated into psychoanalytic work. This book brings together an international range of contributors to consider the bodily unconscious from different theoretical perspectives. Concepts from the work of Freud, Bion, Winnicott, Lacan, Laplanche, and Fonagy are developed with the aim of incorporating body memory into psychoanalytic technique. The contributors consider how severe and complex clinical states, dominated by bodily symptoms and disorganization, can be approached with methods that go beyond classical interpretation. The book includes ten case histories and discussion of key themes including transference and countertransference, feelings of corporeality and bodily sensations, and features clinical material throughout. The Bodily Unconscious in Psychoanalytic Technique will be essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in practice and training, particularly those interested in somatic approaches.







Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Research


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Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Research: Evidence-Based Practice and Practice-Based Evidence continues the important work of the first book published in 2009 by Humana Press (Handbook of Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice). This landmark title presents in one volume significant developments in research, including neuroscience research, in psychodynamic psychotherapy by a team of renowned clinician-researchers. The demand for ongoing research initiatives in psychodynamic psychotherapy from both internal and external sources has increased markedly in recent years, and this volume continues to demonstrate the efficacy and effectiveness of a psychodynamic approach to psychotherapeutic interventions in the treatment of psychological problems. The work in this volume is presented in the spirit of ongoing discussion between researchers and clinicians about the value of specific approaches to specific patients with specific psychiatric and psychological problems. Multiple forms of treatment interventions have been developed over the past fifty years, and this volume makes clear, with firm evidence, the authors’ support for the current emphasis on personalized medicine. Groundbreaking and a major contribution to the psychiatric and psychologic literature, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Research: Evidence-Based Practice and Practice-Based Evidence provides firm grounding for advancing psychodynamic psychotherapy as a treatment paradigm.




Praxis der psychodynamischen Psychotherapie


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Psychodynamische Psychotherapie – für Einsteiger ... Die psychodynamische Psychotherapie ist neben der Verhaltenstherapie die erfolgreichste und maßgebende psychotherapeutische Schule. Ihr Spektrum reicht von der klassischen Psychoanalyse bis zu modernen Ansätzen wie der Mentalisierungsbasierten Therapie. Sie wird bei den unterschiedlichsten psychischen Störungsbildern eingesetzt. Annegret Boll-Klatt und Mathias Kohrs stellen in diesem Werk systematisch und eingängig die gesamte Bandbreite der psychodynamischen Psychotherapie vor: Klassische psychoanalytische Theorien, neurobiologische Erkenntnisse, Ergebnisse der Säuglingsforschung, Krankheitsmodelle, ausgewählte Störungsbilder, Übertragung und Gegenübertragung in der Patient-Therapeut-Beziehung und vieles mehr. Der Leser erhält das notwendige Rüstzeug für die Konzeption einer erfolgreichen psychotherapeutischen Behandlung. Vor dem Hintergrund ihrer langjährigen Erfahrungen als Psychotherapeuten und Dozenten an verschiedenen psychodynamisch ausgerichteten Ausbildungsinstituten gelingt den beiden Autoren ein Lehrbuch, das Maßstäbe setzt – optimal nicht nur für Aus- und Weiterbildungskandidaten zur Prüfungsvorbereitung und Berufseinsteiger, sondern auch für bereits tätige Therapeuten zum schnellen Auffrischen ihrer Kenntnisse. ... und Fortgeschrittene




Handbook of Interpersonal Psychology


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Modern interpersonal psychology is now at a point where recent advances need to be organized so that researchers, practitioners, and students can understand what is new, different, and state-of-the art. This field-defining volume examines the history of interpersonal psychology and explores influential theories of normal-abnormal behaviors, widely-used assessment measures, recent methodological advances, and current interpersonal strategies for changing problematic behaviors. Featuring original contributions from field luminaries including Aaron Pincus, John Clarkin, David Buss, Louis Castonguay, and Theodore Millon, this cutting-edge volume will appeal to academicians, professionals, and students interested in the study of normal and abnormal interpersonal behavior.




Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis OPD-2


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Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis (OPD) is a form of multiaxial diagnostic and classification system based on psychodynamic principles, analogous to those based on other principles such as DSM-IV and ICD-10. The OPD is based on five axes: I = experience of illness and prerequisites for treatment, II = interpersonal relations, III = conflict, IV = structure, and V = mental and psychosomatic disorders (in line with Chapter V (F) of the ICD-10). After an initial interview lasting 1–2 hours, the clinician (or researcher) can evaluate the patient's psychodynamics according to these axes and enter them in the checklists and evaluation forms provided. The new version, OPD-2, has been developed from a purely diagnostic system to include a set of tools and procedures for treatment planning and for measuring change, as well as for determining the appropriate main focuses of treatment and developing appropriate treatment strategies.




Psychodynamische Psychotherapie


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Der Band vermittelt konzeptuelles und methodisches Grundlagenwissen zur psychoanalytischen und psychodynamischen Praxis. Zunächst werden die psychoanalytischen Behandlungstechniken auf dem Hintergrund ihrer jeweiligen theoretischen Konzepte und Anwendungsbereiche dargestellt und Unterschiede der wichtigsten psychodynamischen Verfahren aufgezeigt. Ferner wird auf die störungsorientierte psychoanalytische Therapie eingegangen, und es werden Fragen nach Technik vs. Beziehung sowie nach Kurz- vs. Langzeittherapie diskutiert. Ein weiteres Kapitel erörtert die Grundlagen evidenzbasierter Psychotherapie auch unter wissenschaftstheoretischen Überlegungen. Die Wirksamkeit von psychodynamischer Therapie wird ausführlich anhand der vorliegenden Psychotherapiestudien, störungsspezifischen Behandlungsmodelle und vorliegenden Therapiemanuale dargestellt. Die vorliegende Neuauflage berücksichtigt aktuelle Studien und geht auf neuere Entwicklungen, wie transdiagnostische Verfahren und Online-Therapie, ein. Abschließend reflektieren die Autoren den Einfluss der Psychotherapieforschung auf die klinische Praxis. Dabei geht es zunächst um die Wirkfaktoren von Psychotherapie, bevor die Bedeutung manualisierter Therapieansätze für die Praxis, Psychotherapieausbildung und für die Erstellung von Behandlungsleitlinien diskutiert wird.




Group Analysis and Psychodynamic Group Therapy with Children and Adolescents


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Children are born into a social context that is not of their choosing. From early childhood, this context is made up of diverse group experiences that play a crucial role in shaping a person's social life and desire to learn. This makes the group context an ideal setting for therapeutic and educational work, especially with children and adolescents. This volume offers numerous practical suggestions for using the group as a helpful and supportive medium, e.g., in parent-infant/toddler groups, parent/caregiver groups, groups with children or adolescents, and in preventive group work in schools. The contributions provide insights into the diversity and complexity of conceptual, group analytic work with children's, youth and parents' groups, and show how this work can be successful in outpatient settings, clinics, youth services, counseling centers, or schools. The combination of basic and applied knowledge makes this anthology an indispensable reference for any practitioner. With contributions by Andreas Opitz, Anke Mühle, Birgitt Ballhausen-Scharf, Dietrich Winzer, Hans Georg Lehle, Christoph Müller, Beate Schnabel, Anja Khalil, Carla Weber, Christoph Radaj, Dietlind, Köhncke, Franziska Schöpfer, Furi Kharbirpour, Gerhild Ohrnberger, Harald Weilnböck, Horst Wenzel, Kadir Kaynak, Matthias Wenck, Thomas Schneider, Tilman Sprondel, Ursula Pröbsting.




Neuropsychodynamic Psychiatry


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This book presents a comprehensive neuropsychodynamic strategy for treating psychiatric disorders. Rather than pursuing an exclusively biological, psychological, or psychodynamic approach, it offers a methodology that links all three aspects in a unifying, integrative model. Central to this approach is the view of the brain as a bio-psychosocial organ in a neuro-ecological model, rather than the purely neuronal model often presupposed in current neuroscience and psychiatry. Moreover, the book views psychopathological symptoms as spatiotemporal disorders of the altered spatiotemporal structure spanning the brain and its surrounding world. The relation between one of the core symptoms and altered neuronal activity calls for the development of integrated, circular neuropsychodynamic models of psychopathological symptoms in severe psychiatric disorders and their treatment.