Psychoanalytic Therapy - Methods
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Analysis of the creation of 'emptiness', of 'nothingness', in certain types of psychosis.

30 Jul 2009 Some psychotic patients manage to create nothingness and emptiness thanks to the amount of work their ego accomplishes. That is the paradox we find in schizophrenic patients, their ego is simultaneously weak and powerful. When we analyse how this ... Read more...

Immersion in the surface.

30 Jul 2009 In order to treat patients with a narcissistic structure showing a rigid shell of defence together with a lack of inner differentiation - insufficient subject/object constitution - one has to deal with a split kind of transference. Their compelling ... Read more...

Growing old: a psychoanalyst's point of view.

30 Jul 2009 With the help of clinical examples, the author shows that psychoanalysis or psychotherapy after the age of 70 can be a fascinating experience, one that enables patients to reconstruct their internal history in such a way that their final years can ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Psychoanalytic Therapy - Methods'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Analysis of the creation of 'emptiness', of 'nothingness', in certain types of psychosis. 30 Jul 2009
• Immersion in the surface. 30 Jul 2009
• Growing old: a psychoanalyst's point of view. 30 Jul 2009
• Being seen or being watched? A psychoanalytic perspective on body dysmorphia. 30 Jul 2009
• Murdered father; dead father: revisiting the Oedipus complex. 30 Jul 2009
• Revisiting Searles's paper "The Patient as a Therapist to the Therapist": the analyst's personal in the interpersonal. 30 Jul 2009
• Longing for the disappointing object and dreading its return. 30 Jul 2009
• Affect education and the development of the interpersonal ego in modern group psychoanalysis. 29 Jun 2009
• Freud's technique: more from experience than theory. 29 Jun 2009
• Defense style changes with the addition of psychodynamic group therapy to clonazepam in social anxiety disorder. 29 Jun 2009
• Why we recommend analytic treatment for some patients and not for others. 13 Jun 2009
• Romantic fantasies of madness and objections to psychotropic medication. 30 May 2009
• What is a "good enough" termination? 30 May 2009
• The crossroads of countertransference and attribution theory: reinventing clinical training within an evidence-based treatment world. 30 May 2009
• Deepening psychoanalytic listening: the marriage of Buddha and Freud. 30 May 2009
• On boredom: a close encounter with encapsulated parts of the psyche. 30 May 2009
• Symmetric frenzy and catastrophic change: a consideration of primitive mental states in the wake of Bion and Matte Blanco. 30 May 2009
• Looking back, looking forward: a reexamination of Benjamin Wolstein's interlock and the emergence of intersubjectivity. 30 May 2009
• Multimedia psychodynamic psychotherapy: a preliminary report. 29 Apr 2009
• The HYPE Clinic: an early intervention service for borderline personality disorder. 29 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Psychoanalytic Therapy'

Definition: A form of psychiatric treatment, based on Freudian principles, which seeks to eliminate or diminish the undesirable effects of unconscious conflicts by making the patient aware of their existence, origin, and inappropriate expression in current emotions and behavior.

Descriptor UI: D011575

Alternative terms: Psychoanalytic Therapy; Psychoanalytical Therapy; Psychoanalytical Therapies; Therapies, Psychoanalytical; Therapy, Psychoanalytical; Therapy, Psychoanalytic; Psychoanalytic Therapies; Therapies, Psychoanalytic; Balint Psychoanalytic Therapy; Psychoanalytic Therapy, Balint; Therapy, Balint Psychoanalytic;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: F04.754.709;

Technical Notes: a psychother technique; DF: PSYCHOANAL THER