Supportive Analytical Psychotherapy

Supportive psychotherapy in dementia

Dementia care is quite rightly the focus of much attention. Guidance on the treatment and care of people with dementia has recently been jointly agreed by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence and the Social Care Institute for Excellence (National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, 2006). This recommends as a key priority for implementation that ‘Carers of people with d...

Supportive-expressive group psychotherapy for persons with inflammatory bowel disease.

OBJECTIVE Supportive-expressive (SE) group psychotherapy is designed to be applicable to medically ill populations. In this open trial, SE therapy was adapted for use in treating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). METHOD Thirty subjects with Crohn's disease (CD) or ulcerative colitis (UC) were enrolled in 4 psychotherapy groups. Each group met weekly for 20 weeks to discuss emotional and inter...

Supervised case experience in supportive psychotherapy: suggestions for trainers

The Royal College of Psychiatrists’ guidelines for psychotherapy training (Royal College of Psychiatrists 2008a) emphasise the need for psychiatric trainees to become better trained in the psychological therapies. Suggestions for training include supervised case experience in supportive psychotherapy. In considering the local arrangements for psycho therapy training, we became interested in how...

A Textbook in Analytical Group Psychotherapy

Psychoanalysis and analytical psychotherapy in the NHS.