This revised practice parameter reviews the evidence from research and clinical experience and highlights significant advancements in the assessment and treatment of anxiety disorders since the previous parameter was published. It highlights the importance of early assessment and intervention, gathering information from various sources, assessment of comorbid disorders, and evaluation of severi...

From the 80s onwards, new psychotherapeutic interventions were developed to achieve profound changes to the character pathology of the most serious cases with Personality Disorders, utilizing the existing psychiatric settings (inpatient wards or day hospitals). The latter were taken as the necessary framework (or containing, in psychoanalytic terminology) parameter for dealing with the enactmen...

This Practice Parameter reviews the evidence from research and clinical experience and highlights significant advances in the assessment and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder since the previous Parameter was published in 1998. It highlights the importance of early identification of posttraumatic stress disorder, the importance of gathering information from parents and children, and the...

In psychotherapy, therapists often formulate interpretations of clients' prior talk which are ‘unilateral’ in the sense that index they themselves author an interpretive inference may not be acceptable to client. Based on 100 German-language recordings brief psychodynamic psychotherapy (4 clients with 25 sessions each), we describe a multimodal practice constructing extended multi-unit turns de...

OBJECTIVE Conducting psychotherapy with chronically suicidal patients challenges clinical decision making and emotional self-management in both trainees and seasoned practitioners. Educators and trainees have noted the need for additional teaching materials in these areas. This article is intended to address these needs. METHODS We review the literature on evidence-based, suicide-oriented psy...

This article proposes transprocessing (as in "transduction" and "processing") as a term to denote mechanisms by which the brain processes information in psychotherapy and develops solutions that have a lasting, curative effect. The case of a woman with a history of posttraumatic conversions, who recovered after long-term psychotherapy, is presented as the basis for a discussion on psychotherape...

We explore the mode of action of multimodal arts psychotherapy through a longitudinal study with 56 adolescents suffering from conduct disorders and treated by means of arts psychotherapies, based on literary and musical production. Original rating scales for the literary production as well as observational frames for active music therapy, allow us going from qualitative analysis to quantificat...

The innovative approach to assessing autobiographical memory narratives that Singer and Bonalume (2010) demonstrate in their case study of Cynthia is an ambitious expression of integrative psychotherapy research. It brings together the rich research findings on self-defining memories derived from laboratory studies and therapy case analyses, and applies these to the multimodal assessment situat...

BACKGROUND Although alexithymia is associated with several psychiatric disorders, there has been little research into the effects of psychodynamic psychotherapies on this condition. Here, the influence of inpatient multimodal psychodynamic psychotherapy on alexithymia and symptom load was evaluated in a large sample of patients. METHODS Alexithymia [measured with the Toronto Alexithymia Scale...