Full Description
Psychoanalytic Studies of Change presents recent studies of the process and outcome of psychoanalytic therapy with an integrative perspective.
A recurrent challenge in the discussion of therapeutic outcome is the gap between empirical, quantitative studies, reporting results on a group level, and the clinician's interest in complex mechanisms of change presupposing microanalysis of dynamic interaction processes. This book bridges that gap via dynamic contributions from a variety of authors. Quantitative and qualitative studies are connected, epistemological and conceptual research is emphasized as specific domains, and in-depth clinical case studies are highlighted. The book comprises several new contributions to epistemology and conceptual research, as well as chapters discussing the challenge of combining qualitative and quantitative methods in studying process and outcome.
Psychoanalytic Studies of Change will not only meet a need specifically within psychoanalysis for up-to-date research but also provide an overview of the latest empirical research on psychoanalysis for a broader clinical and academic group of readers. It will appeal to psychoanalysts in practice and in training.
Contents
Part I Process and outcome
1. Trajectory of change in the Individual and the Diagnostic Group: Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) and the Treatment of Personality Pathology
John Clarkin, Nicole Cain, & Eve Caligor.
2. Clinical Outcome and Process Research in the MODE Study: From the Psychoanalysis of a Young Man in Emerging Adulthood
Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber and Gilles Ambresin.
3. Changes in dreams- an indicator for transformation processes in psychoanalysis: Clinical Outcome and Process Research in the MODE Study
Gilles Ambresin and Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber.
4. In the footsteps of Kandel. Epigenetics and therapeutic change
Juan Pablo Jimenez & Yamil Quevedo
5. Diagnosis of Personality Organization - Towards the Evaluation of Severity and Change
Stephan Doering
6. Group Analytic Psychotherapy. An effective treatment?
Steinar Lorentzen
Part II Conceptual studies
7. Psychoanalysis and its distinct epistemology
Erik Stänicke
8. Self-agency and self-reflection - building blocks for a dual self-theory
Werner Bohleber
9. The Mechanism of Change in the 'Talking Cure': A Neuropsychoanalytic Perspective
Mark Solms
10. In search of change: The role of affirmation
Siri Erika Gullestad
Part III Prevention
11. Contributing to public policies: A psychoanalytically informed program for helping mother and babies.
Rogerio Lerner.
12. The role of caregivers in the building of self-regulation and symbolization in early infancy
Clara Raznoszczyk Schejtman, Constanza Duhalde, Vanina Huerin, M. Pia Vernengo and Ines Vardy
13. "Building Baby Brains". A psychoanalytically inspired training program for helping mothers and their babies in Pakistan
Alexandra Harrison and Elizabeth Levey
Part IV In search of methods
14. The self and self-harm - towards a more nuanced understanding of self-harm in adolescence
Line Stänicke
15. Relational competence in psychotherapy
Cecilie Hillestad Hoff
16. Developing therapeutic competence: Learning to work in the transference
Hanne Strømme & Stephan Hau
17. A microanalytic method to investigate psychoanalytic process: In search of the in-between
Juan Pablo Jimenez & Carolina Altimir
