Full Description
This book charts the ways in which psychoanalytic psychotherapy has been implemented, developed and researched within the public sectors of twelve different countries around the world. It discusses how psychoanalytic practitioners locally have responded to the challenge of evidence-based practice. For each country the authors describe:
• How people can access talking therapies as part of the national healthcare system, including a brief history of how this system has developed and the place of psychoanalytic psychotherapy inside/outside of this system historically
• How clinicians train and qualify as a psychoanalytic practitioner, and demographic profiles of their communities of psychoanalytic practice
• How evidence-based practice has impacted the mental health system and, in particular, access to and provision of talking therapies e.g. through the development and implementation of treatment guidelines
• How outcome monitoring and reporting of access, waiting times and recovery rates are used in the commissioning and provision of psychological therapies
• What is needed to secure a viable future for psychoanalytic psychotherapy
The first of two volumes, this book will be of great interest to all practicing psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists. The chapters in these volumes were originally published as special issues of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
Contents
Introduction. 1. Psychodynamic therapy in Canada in the era of evidence-based practice 2. Access to psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in the US 3. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Austria 4. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Finland 5. Psychodynamic therapy in the public sector in Italy: then and now. The opportunity of evidence-based practice in the birthplace of 'care-in-the-community' 6. Psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the South African context 7. State of the psychoanalytic nation: Switzerland 8. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Denmark: development, implementation in the public health service and present status 9. The psychoanalytic psychotherapy endeavour in the Greek public sector 10. Enduring the chaos. Psychoanalytical psychotherapy in Poland 11. 'State of the psychoanalytic nation' Grand Duchy of Luxembourg 12. State of psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Bosnia and Herzegovina since the 1992-95 war
