Psychodynamic Approaches to the Adolescent with Panic Disorder - Hardcover

Milrod, Barbara; Busch, Fredric; Shapiro, Theodore

9781575242309: Psychodynamic Approaches to the Adolescent with Panic Disorder

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1575242303 ISBN 13: 9781575242309

Publisher: Krieger Pub Co, 2004

A clear description of psychodynamic psychotherapy for adolescents with panic disorder is presented with specific problems common to anxious adolescents. The book contains rich clinical examples and illustrates psychodynamic clinical technique for adolescents, as well as for teaching clinicians and documenting a method of treatment to facilitate research. Topics include a description of panic disorder in adolescents and its psychodynamic underpinnings; a detailed assessment of anxious adolescents; an enumeration of psychodynamic conflicts and defenses of adolescents; and an overview of treatment. Other areas of focus are working with families; technical handling of specific problems common to anxious adolescents such as drug use and suicide; transference, working through, and termination; and techniques of combining psychodynamic psychotherapy with other forms of antipanic treatment. Finally, a long and complete case of an adolescent with panic disorder treated with psychodynamic psychotherapy is presented.

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About the Author:

Barbara Milrod, M.D. Associate Professor of Psychiatry Weill Medical College of Cornell University Faculty, The New York Psychoanalytic Institute, New York, N.Y. Fredric Busch, M.D. Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Weill Medical College of Cornell University Faculty, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, New York, N.Y. Theodore Shapiro, M.D. Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry Weill Medical College of Cornell University Supervising and Training Psychoanalyst, The New York Psychoanalytic Institute, New York, N.Y. The authors are psychoanalysts who have effectively described psychodynamic treatment for panic disorder in a form that has facilitated both ground-breaking outcome research in the field of psychodynamic psychiatry, and clear methods of treatment for adults with panic disorder. Their outcome research in adults with panic disorder has shown that this method is promising, and it brings global relief of symptoms and improvements in the quality of life for these patients

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