Clinical Research in Psychoanalysis

Clinical Research in Psychoanalysis
Author: Marina Altmann de Litvan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2021-07-19
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1000407209

This book offers different theoretical approaches about what clinical research is. Clinical Research in Psychoanalysis is a unique contribution to the attempts to bridge the gap between clinicians and researchers and to create a culture of a more rigorous and systematic inquiry. It provides an innovative experience because for the first time different methods and perspectives were used to analyse one same clinical material. This was done by analysts from different working parties of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), from a range of different schools of psychoanalytic thought. This allows the reader to have a vision of the different methods that are currently being used by some working parties of the IPA and to learn about the strengths of each one for certain situations and types of research. This book revaluates clinical research, intending to make links between the analysts working through the working parties and the different ways of thinking in clinical research. By covering key topics, such as how working parties can facilitate different types of research; the place of metaphor in psychoanalytic research and practice; and the future for psychoanalytic research, this text is a fruitful dialogue between different theoretical conceptions and between clinicians and researchers, that will expand our perspectives on the evidence we find in clinical material and will broaden our views on the patient. This book offers a unique and invaluable experience to psychologists and psychoanalysts who are trying to improve their clinical practice and bring research evidence into their psychoanalytic practice. It is an invaluable contribution to psychoanalytic training of candidates, teachers, and students.

Psychotherapy: Clinical, Research, and Theoretical Issues

Psychotherapy: Clinical, Research, and Theoretical Issues
Author: Hans H. Strupp
Publisher: Jason Aronson
Total Pages: 824
Release: 1973
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1 The Therapist: Personal and Technical Factors. 2 The Duality of the Therapist's Contribution. 3 Teaching and Learning in Psychotherapy. 4 Specific versus Nonspecific Factors in Psychotherapy and the Problem of Control. 5 The Technology of Psychotherapy. 6 Rogerian and Psychoanalytic Techniques. 7 Technique, Professional Affiliation, and Experience Level. 8 Effect of Personal Analysis. 9 The Therapist's Performance: A. Psychiatrists. 10 The Therapist's Performance: B. A Comparison of Two Professional Groups. 11 The Therapist's Performance: C. A Comparison of Two Orientations. 12 The Therapist's Performance: D. A Further Study of Psychiatrists. 13 Analysis of Techniques in Brif Psychotherapy. 14 Therapist Activity in Analytic and Client-Centered Therapy. 15 Longitudinal Study of Psychotherapy. 16 The Outcome Problem Revisited. 17 The Outcome Problem: A Rejoinder. 18 The Limitations of Psychotherapy. 19 Some Determinants of Clinical Evaluations. 20 Psychotherapist's Clinical Judgments and Attitudes toward Patients. 21 A System for Analyzing Psychotherapeutic Techniques. 22 Dimensions of Therapists' Activity. 23 Psychoanalytic Therapy of the Individual. 24 Ferment in Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. 25 Current Trends in Psychotherapy. 26 The Future of Psychoanalysis. 27 The Future of Research in Psychotherapy. 28 Objectivity versus Subjectivity. 29 Who Needs Intrapsychic Factors in Clinical Psychology? 30 Psychotherapists and Researchers. 31 New Directions in Psychotherapy Research.

Controversies in Psychotherapy and Counselling

Controversies in Psychotherapy and Counselling
Author: Colin Feltham
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1999-08-28
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780761956419

`My congratulations to Colin Feltham for assembling a set of contentious issues and lively authors which together made me forget my surroundings' - Person-Centred Practice `Editor Colin Feltham's choice of topics shows an astute, on the ground awareness of the issues that dog the industry, while still making lively reading' - New Therapist In this book, leading practitioners, critics and commentators take sides on many topical and core debates including: · Theoretical issues: Does the unconscious really exist? Is birth trauma a fiction? Should one believe in `false memories'? · Clinical issues: Is ther

Issues in Psychotherapy Research

Issues in Psychotherapy Research
Author: Michel Hersen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 458
Release: 1984-02
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780306414015

Psychotherapy research is undoubtedly one of the most puzzling, diverse, com plex, controversial, and multidimensional areas tackled by clinical psycholo gists, psychiatrists, and psychiatric social workers. The numerous theoretical, methodological, and clinical-research issues dealt with by workers in the field have increased exponentially in the past three decades. To do full justice to the area, monographs in each of the specific subareas would be warranted. In this volume, we, as editors, have endeavored to present the student and interested professional and practitioner with an understanding of the most salient issues and trends confronted by the psychotherapy researcher. In order to accomplish this task, we asked our colleagues, who are experts in their respective areas, to share their current thinking with us and with you, the read ers. Thus, many theoretical viewpoints are represented, with none having a monopoly over the others. This is as it should be, given the data collected by clinical researchers at this time. We have also attempted to capture the excite ment that has permeated the field in the past 30 years or so.

How Psychotherapists Develop

How Psychotherapists Develop
Author: David Elliot Orlinsky
Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2005
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781591472735

How Psychotherapists Develop: A Study of Therapeutic Work and Professional Growth - based on a 15-year study of psychotherapists' experiences and careers - is a book written equally for practicing therapists, clinical educators, and mental health researchers. The authors and their collaborators collected detailed reports from nearly 5,000 psychotherapists of all career levels, professions, and theoretical orientations in more than a dozen countries worldwide. Here the authors sensitively explore the complex nature and interrelatedness of psychotherapeutic work and professional development through a series of systematic, controlled, clinically and theoretically informed analyses - and, in so doing, establish a solid foundation for empirically supported programs of training and supervision. This landmark work emphasizes to researchers the importance of the psychotherapist's contribution to effective treatment, offers guidance to teachers and supervisors of psychotherapists, and - not least - promises to satisfy the curiosity of therapists at all career levels about how their own experiences of work and growth compare with those of their peers and colleagues.

Depth-Psychological Understanding

Depth-Psychological Understanding
Author: Philip F. D. Rubovits-Seitz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1134899505

Although clinical interpretation originated with Freud, the latter's positivist preference for purely observational methods made him ambivalent toward interpretive methods. According to Rubovits-Seitz, the legacy of Freud's positivism still pervades clinical thinking and interferes with progress in investigating and improving interpretive methods. He reviews the paradigm shift in general science from positivism to postpositivism by way of demonstrating the compatibility of interpretive inquiry with a postpositivist approach. Post-Freudian models of clinical interpretation are evaluated, andclinical methods of interpretation are compared with interpretive approachesin nonclinical fields. A detailed discussion of the neglected problem ofjustifying interpretations incorporates evaluations of specific justifyingprocedures and a case report illustrating applications of such methods. Thework concludes with a consideration of common but avoidable errors in clinicalinterpretation along with remedial strategies for dealing with them. Following Depth-Psychological Understanding, clinicians may no longer take for granted the interpretive process and the accuracy of their own interpretations. Rubovits-Seitz's scholarly survey marks a major advance in comprehending the methodology of clinical interpretation and in setting forth both the problems and promise of interpretive methods.

Animal-Assisted Psychotherapy

Animal-Assisted Psychotherapy
Author: Nancy Parish-Plass
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2013-07-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1612492746

The integration of animals into the therapy setting by psychotherapists has been a growing trend. Psychological problems treated include emotional and behavioral problems, attachment issues, trauma, and developmental disorders. An influential 1970s survey suggests that over 20 percent of therapists in the psychotherapy division of the American Psychological Association incorporated animals into their treatment in some fashion. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the number is much higher today. Since Yeshiva University psychologist Boris Levinson popularized the involvement of animals in psychotherapy in the 1960s, Israel has come to be perhaps the most advanced country in the world in the area of animal-assisted psychotherapy (AAP). This is true especially in the areas of academic training programs, theory-building, and clinical practice. Great effort has been put into understanding the mechanisms behind AAP, as well as into developing ethical guidelines that take into account the therapist's responsibility toward both client and animal. This book exposes the world to the theory and practice of AAP as conceived and used in Israel. It emphasizes evidence-based and clinically sound applications with psychotherapeutic goals, as differentiated from other animal-assisted interventions, such as AAE (animal-assisted education) and AAA (animal-assisted activities), which may have education or skills-oriented goals. Not just anyone with a dog can call him-or herself an animal-assisted therapist. This volume demonstrates not only the promise of animal-assisted psychotherapeutic approaches, but also some of the challenges the field still needs to overcome to gain widespread legitimacy.

Psychotherapy And Its Discontents

Psychotherapy And Its Discontents
Author: Dryden, Windy
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1992-06-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0335096778

Psychotherapists and critics of psychotherapy outline their views and answer their adversaries. The critics draw attention to the inadequacy of research validating the results of psychotherapy and argue that no treatment at all may be as effective as therapy, that some people's experience of therapy is harmful, that there is a preciousness and pretentiousness about many psychotherapists, that psychotherapists may be flawed and exploitative, that psychotherapy is anachronistically detached from the new-paradigm views, and that psychotherapy embodies a form of psychological reductionism that weakens its credibility. The object of this book is to reduce the antagonism between the two camps so that future debate can be more constructive than hitherto. The contributors are Michael Barkham, Ian Craib, Gill Edwards, Albert Ellis, Hans Eysenck, Stephen Frosh, Sol Garfield, Ernest Gellner, Jeremy Holmes, Paul Kline, Katherine Mair, Jeffrey Masson, David Pilgrim, Jeff Roberts, John Rowan, David Shapiro and Stuart Sutherland.

Discovering Theory in Clinical Practice

Discovering Theory in Clinical Practice
Author: Rhonda Peterson Dealey
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2020-11-29
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 3030573109

This theory-focused casebook provides the reader with an overview of multiple counseling theories and utilizes specific cases representing a variety of clients to demonstrate the integration of theory in clinical counseling and social work practice. Through the use of dynamic cases, the reader is shown how theory informs day-to-day practice. Each theoretical case study includes a section on cultural considerations and discussion questions: Object Relations Theory: The Case of Elyse Self Psychology Theory: The Case of Evan Person-Centered Therapy: The Case of Tommy Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: The Case of Jim Relational Cultural Theory: The Case of Monica Systems Theory: The Case of Esperanza Experiential Therapy: The Case of Sam Discovering Theory in Clinical Practice: A Casebook for Clinical Counseling and Social Work Practice is an essential text for instructors to teach the development of a theoretical foundation that easily integrates into core topics of relevance for graduate students in social work, counseling, psychology, marriage and family therapy, and human behavior who intend to work with a diverse set of client populations. The book also will be a great asset to early-career practitioners and clinical supervision participants who are continuing to build a professional working template of skills in both theory and practice as they conceptualize patient problems and develop treatment plans.

Contemporary Cognitive Therapy

Contemporary Cognitive Therapy
Author: Robert L. Leahy
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2015-12-31
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1462526837

Bringing together a stellar array of contributors whose work has been directly influenced by Aaron T. Beck, this volume presents current advances in cognitive therapy science and practice. Described are new and effective ways of understanding and treating clients suffering from a wide range of affective, anxiety, and personality disorders. The status of basic cognitive therapy principles and models is discussed, and important theoretical and clinical refinements are elaborated. Other topics include innovative applications for children and adolescents, couples, and families, as well as progress that has been made in integrating cognitive therapy with other treatments, such as pharmacotherapy.