Outcome Research and the Future of Psychoanalysis explores the connection between outcome studies and important and complex questions of clinical practices, research methodologies, epistemology, and sociological considerations.
Outcome Research and the Future of Psychoanalysis explores the connection between outcome studies and important and complex questions of clinical practices, research methodologies, epistemology, and sociological considerations. Presenting the ideas and voices of leading experts in clinical and extra-clinical research in psychoanalysis, the book provides an overview of the state of the art of outcome research, its results and implications. Furthermore, its contributions discuss the basic premises and ideas of outcome research and in which way the contemporary Zeitgeist might shape the future of psychoanalysis.
Divided into three parts, the book begins by discussing the scientific basis of psychoanalysis and advances in psychoanalytic thinking as well as the state of the art of psychoanalytic outcome research, critically analyzing so-called evidence-based therapies. Part II of the book contains exemplary research projects that are discussed from a clinical perspective, illustrating the dialogue between researchers and clinicians. Lastly, in Part III, several psychoanalysts review the importance of critical thinking and research in psychoanalytical education.
Thought-provoking and expertly written and researched, this book is a useful resource for academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of mental health, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis.
Introduction
1. The scientific basis of psychoanalysis: Introductory
remarks Part I: Outcome Research: State of the Art
2. Five Advances in
Psychoanalytic Thinking and their implications on outcome research
3. Where
Is the Evidence for "Evidence-Based" Therapy?
4. An Innovative, Scientific,
Clinically-sensitive Approach to Psychoanalytic Process-Outcome Research
5.
From Case Study to Single Case Research: The Specimen Case Amalia X
6. The
importance of research in Psychoanalysis for contemporary medicine Part II:
Research and Clinical Practice in Dialogue
7. Evidence for psychodynamic
psychotherapy in specific mental disorders: a systematic review
8. Clinical
Discussion of Psychodynamic Therapy: A Meta-Analysis Testing Equivalence of
Outcome
9. The LAC Depression Study: a comparative outcome study of
psychoanalytic and cognitive-behavioral long-term therapies
10. Discussion
from a Clinical Perspective and an Illustrated Case Vignette
11. Comparative
Psychotherapy Research Focused on the Treatment of Borderline Personality
Disorder
12. Memory Reconsolidation, Emotional Arousal and the Process of
Change in Psychoanalysis
13. Emotions in psychodynamic process and outcome
research
14. Discussion from a Clinical Perspective Part III: Critical
Thinking and Research in Psychoanalytic Education
15. A Clinicians View of
Research, Critical Thinking, and Culture in Psychoanalytic Education
16.
Teaching Empirical Research in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: How to Make
Research Really Matter
17. The Role of Critical Thinking and Research in
Psychoanalytic Education
Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber was Director in charge of the Sigmund-Freud-Institut (SFI) in Frankfurt a.M., Germany (20012016), now senior scientist at SFI and University Medicine Mainz, as well as staff member of the IDeA Center in Frankfurt a.M.
Mark Solms is Chair of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital and Chair of the Research Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association.
Simon E. Arnold is a Research Assistant at the Sigmund-Freud-Institut in Frankfurt a.M., Germany.
