The psychoanalytic model provides clinicians with the framework to understand each patient as a unique psychological being. The book is rich in descriptive detail yet pragmatic in its approach, offering many features and benefits: In addition to providing the theoretical scaffolding for psychodynamic psychotherapy, the book emphasizes the critical importance of forging a strong treatment alliance, which requires understanding the transference and countertransference reactions that either disrupt or strengthen the clinician-patient bond.
The book is respectful of Freud without being reverential; it considers his contribution as founder of psychoanalysis in the context of the historical and conceptual evolution of the field.
The final section is devoted to learning to use the psychoanalytic model and exploring how it can be integrated with existing models of the mind. In addition to being a valuable reference for mental health clinicians, the text can serve as a resource for undergraduate and graduate students of philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, literature, and all academic disciplines outside of the mental health professions who may want to learn more about what psychoanalysts have to say about the mind.
Important features include an extensive glossary of terms, a series of illustrative tables, and appendixes addressing libido theory and defenses. Drawing upon a broad range of sources to make her case, the author persuasively argues that the basic tenets of the psychoanalytic model of the mind are supported by empirical evidence as well as clinical efficacy.
The Psychoanalytic Model of the Mind is a fascinating exploration of this complex model of mental functioning, and both clinicians and students of the mind will find it comprehensive and riveting. The interpersonal dimensions of each DSM-IV personality disorder are discussed in depth and and innovative procedures for assessment and diagnosis described. This groundbreaking core textbook offers a comprehensive overview of different approaches to the assessment and treatment of psychological disorders.
The book retains important diagnostic perspectives, including the DSM-5, ICD, ICD and PDM, but also widens the scope of coverage beyond mainstream psychiatric models to include psychological, biological, historical, sociocultural and therapeutic approaches. Contemporary and well-balanced, this book provides an even-handed and holistic foundation, allowing students to develop a strong critical mindset while retaining a robust research-driven orientation.
Abnormal Psychology: Contrasting Perspectives: - features an innovative structure organized by presenting problem, examining each in a broad context of traditional psychiatric and alternative approaches - is grounded in lived experience of disorder: shining a spot-light on service-users through 'Case Examples' scenarios and 'Lived Experience' perspective pieces - supports student learning and critical thinking through engaging 'Controversial Question', 'Try it Yourself' and 'In Depth' - is supported by an impressive online support features including lecture slides, a test bank, instructor manual, student study guide, multiple choice self-test quizzes, flashcard activities and more.
This book is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduates students on abnormal psychology, psychopathology, mental health or clinical psychology courses. This book provides a complete and fundamental overview, from a psychoanalytical point of view, on theoretical and clinical aspects of psychodynamic or psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
It includes the theory of the human mind, psychic development, psychic conflicts, trauma, and dreams. Arguably the most profound psychoanalytic thinker since Freud, and deeply influential in many fields, Jacques Lacan often seems opaque to those he most wanted to reach.
These are the readers Bruce Fink addresses in this clear and practical account of Lacan's highly original approach to therapy. Written by a clinician for clinicians, Fink's introduction is an invaluable guide to Lacanian psychoanalysis, how it's done, and how it differs from other forms of therapy. While elucidating many of Lacan's theoretical notions, the book does so from the perspective of the practitioner faced with the pressing questions of diagnosis, which therapeutic stance to adopt, how to involve the patient, and how to bring about change.
Almost everyone who crosses the therapist's threshold is looking for a second chance—a shot at living a richer, less restricted life. Understanding how echoes of the past resonate in and shape the present provides opportunities to resolve crippling conflicts and make new choices.
Furthermore, such insight produces a sense of mastery. Jane Hall wrote Deepening the Treatment to help the psycho-dynamically informed therapist help the patient recognize that exploring ideas and feelings is a journey worth taking and that the therapist is a trustworthy guide. Often, people need to wade before they feel comfortable diving into deep waters.
Hall introduces a responsible if unconventional application of respectful, nondirective therapy, and she supports her vision with clinical examples and thoughtful attention to issues of basic technique—among them separation, termination, self-disclosure, frequency of sessions, tolerating patient rage, and, of course, interpreting the transference.
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Psychoanalytic Case Formulation Book Review:. Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual Second Edition. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Book Review:. Freud and Beyond. Author : Stephen A. Mitchell,Margaret J. Freud and Beyond Book Review:. Childhood beyond Pathology.
Mundo and J. Speranza and N. Midgley ; Children N. Malberg and L. Rosenberg ; Infancy and Early Childhood A. Speranza and L. Mayes ; Elderly F. Del Corno and D.
Plotkin ; Tools S. Waldron, F. Gazzillo and R. Del Corno, V. Lingiardi and N. The second edition will thus retain the basic multiaxial structure, but will be characterized by several important changes, including those that follow.
The Adult Personality section will be integrated and revised according to theoretical, clinical and empirical indications, especially those derived from measures such as the SWAP 2,3,9 and its new versions 10,11 and applications 12,13 , and from the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Prototypes The section on Levels of Personality Organization will, in light of research since that indicates the clinical utility of this concept, include a psychotic level of personality organization In the M Axis, the number of mental functions will be increased from nine to twelve: capacity for regulation, attention and learning; capacity for affective range, communication and understanding; capacity for mentalization and reflective functioning; capacity for differentiation and integration; capacity for relationships and intimacy; self-esteem regulation and quality of internal experience; impulse control and regulation; defensive functioning; adaptation, resiliency and strength; self-observing capacities psychological mindedness ; capacity to construct and use internal standards and ideals; meaning and purpose.
An assessment procedure with a Likert-style scale will be associated with each mental function. It will more thoroughly emphasize both the subjective experience of the patient and the likely countertransference of the clinician Because there are significant psychological differences between young children and teenagers, an Adolescent section age will be separated from the Child section The PDM will give better definitions of the quality of primary relationships child and caregivers , emphasizing the evaluation of family systems and their characteristic relational patterns, including attention to attachment patterns and their possible relationship to psychopathology and normative development.
There will be a section on Mental Health Disorders of the Elderly, absent in the first edition. The PDM-2 will contain two special sections on Clinician-Friendly Tools both PDMderived and derived from prior studies that are intended to help practitioners attain a better understanding of the overall approach embodied in the manual 20, Finally, the PDM-2 will omit the extensive last section on supporting empirical articles, and will instead integrate more systematic references to research, especially as empirical studies inform more operationalized descriptions of the different disorders.
It attempts to restore the connection between deep understanding and treatment, without the requirements of other diagnostic systems that they be useful for demographic studies, billing, institutional record-keeping, syndromal research, and other ancillary uses of diagnostic labels. Without a counterpoint to the current tendency to focus more and more narrowly on discrete disorder categories, the clinical relationship may be jeopardized and even damaged.
Avoiding this hazard is the main reason why the authors of both editions of the PDM have offered this complementary classification system to the mental health community. References 1. PDM Task Force. Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual. Silver Spring: Alliance of Psychoanalytic Organizations, Westen D, Shedler J. Revising and assessing Axis II, part I: developing a clinically and empirically valid assessment method.
Am J Psychiatry ; Revising and assessing Axis II, part II: toward an empirically based and clinically useful classification of personality disorders. Psychoanal Psychol ; Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual-2's. Jun 04, The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual. And its new versions 10,11 and applications 12,13 , and from the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Prototypes. The section on Levels of Personality Organization will, in light of research since that indicates the clinical utility of this.
PMC free article PsychodiagnosticChart-2 PDC The PDC-2 may be used for diagnoses,treatment formulations, progress reports, and outcome assessment, as well asfor empirical research on personality, psychopathology, and treatment. Our overarching aim is to makepsychodiagnoses more useful to the practitioner by combining the symptom-focusedICD or DSM with the full range and depth of human mental functioning addressedby the PDM.
How to use: The clinician must perform or have access to diagnostic interview data and psychological assessment datato derive optimal ratings. We recognize that this is not always feasible, andin many instances the clinician will code an initial impression, then re-assessas additional information accrues.
Thevalidity of this chart can be enhanced with the integration of relevantpsychological tests. The PDC-2 fillable form tallies the M axis scores and can export all the data to Excel for research analysis.
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