Psychoanalytic Treatment in Adults: A longitudinal study of change (Psychoanalytic Explorations) - Softcover

Cogan, Rosemary; Porcerelli, John H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0815359861 ISBN 13: 9780815359869

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

The outcomes of psychoanalysis, as with other psychotherapies, vary considerably. Psychoanalytic Treatment in Adults examines the results of a longitudinal study of change during psychoanalysis, illuminating the characteristics of patients, analysts and analyses which can help to predict outcomes of treatment.

Written by experienced psychologists and psychoanalysts, chapters in the book draw upon sixty case studies to consider how patients with very different analytic outcomes respond at both the beginning and end of their analysis. Psychoanalysts used a clinician report measure, the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure, to describe a patient at the beginning of psychoanalysis and every six months until the analysis ended. This allowed the authors to learn about changes over analysis and, in turn, improved treatment planning and practice for the well-being of other patients.

Chapters explore five outcomes: a negative therapeutic reaction; attrition when the patient drops out; attrition due to external events; mutual agreement between patient and analyst without maximum benefits; and mutual agreement between patient and analyst with maximum benefits.

The findings from these chapters will be of interest to researchers and academics in the fields of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, psychodynamic therapy, psychoanalytic education, psychiatry and psychology. The results should also help clinicians recognize potential problems early in analytic treatments so that they can work more effectively with patients.

About this title

About the Author:

Rosemary Cogan is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychological Sciences, Texas Tech University, USA.

John H. Porcerelli is Director of Behavioral Medicine and Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine, USA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0815359861
• ISBN 13: 9780815359869
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 172