BACKGROUND/AIM Working alliance, as a collaborative part of the therapeutic relationship has been proven to be one of the most powerful therapeutic factors in psychotherapy in general, regardless many technical differences between numerous psychotherapeutic modalities. On the other hand, transference is the basic concept of psychodynamic psychotherapy, and, according to the psychoanalytic theor...

Although supportive-expressive (SE) psychotherapy is one of the most studied psychodynamic therapies today, little is known empirically about effective strategies in SE supervision, or in psychodynamic supervision in general (Diener & Mesrie, 2015; Watkins, 2011). One of the important questions in SE psychotherapy is how to decide when to use supportive and when to use expressive interventions....

This article aims to describe the difference between descriptive and dynamic psychiatry. As part of the latter every psychiatrist should be able to construct a psychodynamic formulation. A psychodynamic formulation, an indication of psychological mindedness, helps the psychiatrist to recognize the unique, personal aspects of the illness and the life of the patient. The formulation furthermore h...

Polarization of biological and psychosocial aspects of psychiatry determines the artificial division of the "biological" psychiatrists and psychiatrists "psychotherapists". This division resulted from a certain dose of mystification of the psychotherapeutic work of those practicing, and fear of psychological determinism of the functioning, of those who are looking for answers in the biological ...

OBJECTIVE As the literature for the treatment of functional (psychogenic) movement disorders (FMD) is sparse, we assessed clinical outcomes in patients with FMD who underwent treatment with psychodynamic psychotherapy (PDP). METHODS A retrospective analysis of the data of patients with FMD who were referred for PDP from 2008-2014 at Emory University Medical Center was performed. RESULTS Thi...

A number of clinicians have developed psychodynamic treatments for people with learning disabilities, but there have been few studies assessing the impact of psychodynamic therapy with this population. In particular, there have been no studies in which investigators have asked clients about their experience of psychodynamic treatment. The current study is an attempt to rectify this by exploring...

R.A. Levy et al. (eds.), Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Research: Evidence-Based Practice and Practice-Based Evidence, Current Clinical Psychiatry, DOI 10.1007/978-1-60761-792-1_10, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 A. J. Gerber (*) Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry , Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute , New York , NY, USA e-mail: [email protected]

Krzysztof Małyszczak, Tomasz Pawłowski, Adrian Sieradzki, Krystian Pyszel, Przemysław Pacan, Andrzej Kiejna: Department of Psychiatry, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland; Correspondence address: Krzysztof Małyszczak; Department of Psychiatry, Wroclaw Medical University, 10 Pasteura Str. 50-367 Wrocław, Poland; E-mail: [email protected] The influence of psychodynamic psychotherapy on depressive sym...