Horst Kächele - Böcker

Recognition of the need for empirical research and interest in its findings are growing in psychoanalysis. Many psychoanalysts now acknowledge that research is imperative to try to deal with the factors propelling the diminution in status and prestige of the discipline, as well as the number of patients in intensive psychoanalytic treatment. In addition, there is increased pressure to expose and acquaint candidates with analytic research in the course of their education. From Psychoanalytic Narrative to Empirical Single Case Research revivifies the experimental potential of psychoanalysis by focusing a number of structured research methods on a single case study. Drs. Kächele, Schachter, and Thomä, in tandem with the Ulm Psychoanalytic Process Research Study Group, bring their formidable tools and knowledge to bear on Amalia X, a former patient of Dr. Thomä’s, whose case history is well-documented, preserved and available for formal empirical study. After providing an intensive review of the problematic aspects of clinical psychoanalytic research and an exegesis on the use of the case study itself, the specific case history of Amalia X, which dominates and centers the remainder of the book, is thoroughly examined. The following two chapters – utilizing clinical and linguistic models, respectively – deconstruct Amalia’s psychopathology along a variety of methodological axes in an effort not only to uncover the roots of her presenting symptoms, but also to reify and validate the strange bedfellows of psychoanalysis and empiricism in general. The book would be incomplete, however, without its final chapter, which provides suggestions and insights into the clinical applications and implications of their combined research.

Recognition of the need for empirical research and interest in its findings are growing in psychoanalysis. Many psychoanalysts now acknowledge that research is imperative to try to deal with the factors propelling the diminution in status and prestige of the discipline, as well as the number of patients in intensive psychoanalytic treatment. In addition, there is increased pressure to expose and acquaint candidates with analytic research in the course of their education. From Psychoanalytic Narrative to Empirical Single Case Research revivifies the experimental potential of psychoanalysis by focusing a number of structured research methods on a single case study. Drs. Kächele, Schachter, and Thomä, in tandem with the Ulm Psychoanalytic Process Research Study Group, bring their formidable tools and knowledge to bear on Amalia X, a former patient of Dr. Thomä’s, whose case history is well-documented, preserved and available for formal empirical study. After providing an intensive review of the problematic aspects of clinical psychoanalytic research and an exegesis on the use of the case study itself, the specific case history of Amalia X, which dominates and centers the remainder of the book, is thoroughly examined. The following two chapters – utilizing clinical and linguistic models, respectively – deconstruct Amalia’s psychopathology along a variety of methodological axes in an effort not only to uncover the roots of her presenting symptoms, but also to reify and validate the strange bedfellows of psychoanalysis and empiricism in general. The book would be incomplete, however, without its final chapter, which provides suggestions and insights into the clinical applications and implications of their combined research.

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Research: Evidence-Based Practice and Practice-Based Evidence continues the important work of the first book published in 2009 by Humana Press (Handbook of Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice).

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Research: Evidence-Based Practice and Practice-Based Evidence continues the important work of the first book published in 2009 by Humana Press (Handbook of Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy:  Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice).  This landmark title presents in one volume significant developments in research, including neuroscience research, in psychodynamic psychotherapy by a team of renowned clinician-researchers. The demand for ongoing research initiatives in psychodynamic psychotherapy from both internal and external sources has increased markedly in recent years, and this volume continues to demonstrate the efficacy and effectiveness of a psychodynamic approach to psychotherapeutic interventions in the treatment of psychological problems.  The work in this volume is presented in the spirit of ongoing discussion between researchers and clinicians about the value of specific approaches to specific patients with specific psychiatric and psychological problems. Multiple forms of treatment interventions have been developed over the past fifty years, and this volume makes clear, with firm evidence, the authors’ support for the current emphasis on personalized medicine.  Groundbreaking and a major contribution to the psychiatric and psychologic literature, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Research: Evidence-Based Practice and Practice-Based Evidence provides firm grounding for advancing psychodynamic psychotherapy as a treatment paradigm.

Das Standardlehrbuch in Neuauflage!Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychiatrie sind ohne Psychoanalyse nicht denkbar. Die Psychoanalyse hat eine über 100-jährige Geschichte und Tradition. Jeder der sich mit dem Gedanken trägt psychotherapeutisch, psychosomatisch oder psychiatrisch tätig zu sein, wird sich mit der Psychoanalyse auseinandersetzen.Die 3. Auflage des Lehrbuchs der Psychoanalyse setzt hier Maßstäbe. Seit über 20 Jahren erfolgreich auf dem Markt und übersetzt in zehn Sprachen, gilt es als verlässliche Wissensquelle und repräsentiert den gegenwärtigen Stand der modernen Psychoanalyse.Band 1 liefert die praxisbezogenen Fundamente der psychoanalytischen Theorien: die grundlegenden Begriffe und Theorien der psychoanalytischen Behandlungstechnik wie Übertragung, Beziehung, Gegenübertragung, Widerstand und Traum, die für Einleitung und Durchführung der psychoanalytischen Behandlung notwendigen Schritte, die Beschreibung von Prozessmodellen. Sämtliche Kapitel wurden überarbeitet und aktualisiert. Dank eines übersichtlichen Layouts wird das Lesen und Blättern zum Vergnügen. Psychoanalyse ist weder eine Wissenschaft für sich, noch staubtrocken oder langweilig. Überzeugen Sie sich selbst!

Das Standardlehrbuch der Psychoanalyse!Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychiatrie sind ohne Psychoanalyse nicht denkbar. Die Psychoanalyse hat eine über 100-jährige Geschichte und Tradition. Jeder der sich mit dem Gedanken trägt, psycotherapeutisch, psychosomatisch oder psychiatrisch tätig zu sein, wird sich mit der Psychoanalyse auseinandersetzen.Die 3. Auflage des Lehrbuchs der Psychoanalyse setzt hier Maßstäbe. Seit über 20 Jahren erfolgreich auf dem Markt und übersetzt in zehn Sprachen, gilt es als verlässliche Wissensquelle und repräsentiert den gegenwärtigen Stand der modernen Psychoanalyse.Band 2 enthält die kasuistischen Darstellungen, die einen Einblick in das Denken und Handeln von Psychoanalytikern geben. Hier wird direkt Bezug genommen auf die in Band 1 vermittelten Grundlagen. Sämtliche Kapitel wurden überarbeitet und aktualisiert. Das übersichtliche Layout machen das Lesen und Blättern zu einemechten Vergnügen.Psychoanalyse ist weder eine Wissenschaft für sich, noch staubtrocken oder langweilig. Überzeugen Sie sich selbst!

Das Standardlehrbuch in Neuauflage!Psychiatrie ohne Psychoanalyse ist nicht denkbar. Die Psychoanalyse hat eine über 100-jährige Geschichte und Tradition, jeder der sich mit dem Gedanken trägt psychiatrisch oder psychotherapeutisch tätig zu sein, wird sich mit der Psychoanalyse auseinandersetzen.Die 3. Auflage des Lehrbuchs der Psychoanalyse setzt hier Maßstäbe. Seit über 20 Jahren erfolgreich auf dem Markt und übersetzt in zehn Sprachen, gilt es als verlässliche Wissensquelle und repräsentiert den gegenwärtigen Stand der modernen Psychoanalyse.Neben Band 1 und 2 gibt es in der dritten Auflage des Lehrbuchs erstmals auch einen Band 3: Forschung.Hier wird der gegenwärtige Stand der Forschung dargestellt und kritisch diskutiert. Nur so kann die Psychoanalyse als Verfahren in der Psychiatrie lebendig bleiben. Psychoanalyse ist weder eine Wissenschaft für sich, noch staubtrocken oder langweilig. Überzeugen Sie sich selbst!

A basic issue for all those essaying to write comprehensive texts on the nature of psychoanalysis, whether oriented primarily to the exposition of the theory or of the technique of psychoanalysis, - within the American literature the books by Brenner and by Greenson come to mind as exemplars of the two categories - is that of the relationship of the theory to the technique and the practice. This issue is however not always brought into explicit focus in this literature and thereby its problematic nature as a fundamental and not yet satisfactorily re­ solved dilemma of our discipline is often glossed over, or even by­ passed completely, as if we could comfortably assume that Freud had, uniquely in the world's intellectual history, fully succeeded in creating a science and a discipline in which the theory (the understanding) and the therapy (i. e. , the cure) were inherently together and truly the same, but two sides of the same coin.

We are pleased to present the second volume of our study on Psychoana­ lytic Practice, which we entitle Clinical Studies. Together, the two volumes fulfill the functions usually expected of a textbook on theory and tech­ nique. In fact, some reviewers have asked why such a title was not cho­ sen. One of the reasons for our narrower choice was that our primary concern is focused on those aspects of psychoanalytic theory that are relevant to treatment. The first volume, entitled Principles, has evoked much interest within and outside the professional community, creating high expectations to­ ward its clinical counterpart. After all, psychoanalytic principles must demonstrate their value and efficacy in treatment, i. e., in achieving changes in symptoms and their underlying structures. This is apparent in the clinical studies contained in this book, and in the process of compil­ ing them the senior author has had the opportunity to take stock of his long professional career.

Hartvig Dahl This is a book about the future that we hope will arouse the curiosity of clinicians and point a direction for researchers. It marks the surprisingly rapid evolution of psychodynamic psychotherapy research from an applied toward a basic science, and, as its title implies, describes strategies to follow rather than results to live by. It was not always thus. A quarter of a century ago the editors of two volumes of psychotherapy research reports summarized the state of the field then: Although there has been a great accumulation of clinical observations and experimental findings, the field has made relatively little progress. There has been little creative building on the work of others (Parloff and Rubinstein 1962). Psychological research generally has tended to be insuffi­ ciently additive. Research people often find it hard to keep informed of related work done on the same site and else­ where, and therefore do not build upon each other's foun­ dation (Luborsky and Strupp 1962).