Psychodynamics, Training, and Outcome in Brief Psychotherapy

Psychodynamics, Training, and Outcome in Brief Psychotherapy provides information pertinent to the fundamental aspects of dynamic psychotherapy. This book discusses the selection criteria, the principles of therapeutic methods, and the factors leading to therapeutic effects in psychotherapy. Organized into five parts encompassing 37 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the influence of research on clinical practice. This text then examines the evidences showing that most of the improvements were in fact due to therapy. Other chapters summarize the essential characteristics of the methods used with the patients in various case studies. This book discusses as well the concept of the triangle of conflict, which refers to one of the cornerstones of psychodynamic theory. The final chapter deals with the advantages of a psychotherapeutic clinic to certain kind of patients who can be greatly helped in a relatively short time. This book is a valuable resource for psychotherapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers.

What this book is aboutAcknowledgementsPart One Introduction to the Present Study 1 Beginning at the end The Nurse Mourning her Fiancé The Girl and the Mountain Tarn The Miner"s Daughter The Borderline Graduate Clerk The Librarian who Sought Suffering Conclusion 2 The present study: background, aims, methods Balint"s Workshop Malan"s Brief Psychotherapy Workshop Previous follow-up studies at the Tavistock Clinic Assessing outcome in previous follow-up studies Method of working in the present study Aims and characteristics of the present study Previous work by other authors The work of Davanloo 3 Measuring outcome Introduction The Sculptress with Nightmares Scoring The scoring of "false solutions" Patients who are worse Conclusion 4 Overview of the present study and its results Introduction The return rate Eligibility for the study Over-all results The ages of patients in the study Therapeutic aims Patients who had subsequent treatment Another moderately good result in an ineligible patient Definition and scientific status of the present study 5 The therapists Comment 6 Therapeutic technique and the two therapeutic triangles The focal technique and focal patients The two therapeutic trianglesPart Two Clinical Material 7 The conservative and radical techniques: two patients with favourable outcome Introduction Notes on the case histories The Pacifist Conductor The Sculptress with Nightmares Discussion 8 Two further patients with favourable outcome The Nurse Mourning her Fiancé The Librarian who Sought Suffering 9 Two male patients with oedipal problems Introduction The Car Battery Man The Betrayed Son Discussion 10 A woman patient with oedipal problems The Girl and the Mountain Tarn 11 The seven "best" cases, discussion Total resolution" Total resolution and the rest of the sample Similarities within the sample Relations with the opposite sex 12 False solutions: I. general. II. two patients with relatively adaptive false solutions Introduction False solutions: General The Rebellious Script Writer The Concert-goer in an Acute Panic 13 False solutions: III. three patients with less adaptive false solutions. IV. general discussion The Hypomanic Advertising Executive The Secretary in a State of Nirvana The Self-driving Physicist General discussion of false solutions 14 Two women who showed limited improvements The Allergic Receptionist Mother, or Teenage Daughter? 15 Patients who showed minimal improvements The Acting-out Accounts Clerk The Actress with Elocution Problems The Miner"s Daughter 16 Patients who showed no improvement The Anorexic Museum Assistant The Psychiatric Nurse with Attacks of Rage 17 Discussion of the five patients who showed minimal or no improvement 18 Patients who were worse: I.