Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Research: Evidence-Based Practice and Practice-Based Evidence

Content: 
Front Matter....Pages i-xxxiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Commentary: Research on Short- and Long-Term Psychoanalytic Treatment – The Current State of the Art....Pages 3-8
The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy....Pages 9-25
Effectiveness of Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: First Meta-Analytic Evidence and Its Discussion....Pages 27-49
Must All Have Prizes? The Munich Psychotherapy Study....Pages 51-69
The Helsinki Psychotherapy Study: Effectiveness, Sufficiency, and Suitability of Short- and Long-Term Psychotherapy....Pages 71-94
Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Therapies for Depression: The Evidence Base....Pages 95-116
Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Treatments for Anxiety Disorders: A Review....Pages 117-137
An Update and Overview of the Empirical Evidence for Transference-Focused Psychotherapy and Other Psychotherapies for Borderline Personality Disorder....Pages 139-167
What Happens After Treatment: Can Structural Change be a Predictor of Long-Term Outcome?....Pages 169-183
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Commentary: Neurobiology of Psychotherapy – State of the Art and Future Directions....Pages 187-192
Neural Models of Psychodynamic Concepts and Treatments: Implications for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy....Pages 193-218
Toward Molecular Psychotherapy of Depression?....Pages 219-232
Psychotherapy Increases the Amount of Serotonin Receptors in the Brains of Patients with Major Depressive Disorder....Pages 233-238
Neural Correlates of Emotion, Cognition, and Attachment in Borderline Personality Disorder and Its Clinical Implications....Pages 239-256
Neurobiologically Informed Psychotherapy of Borderline Personality Disorder....Pages 257-268
Foundations of Psychodynamic Therapy: Implicit Emotional Learning....Pages 269-282
Neurobiological Correlates of the Psychotherapy Relationship and E.M.P.A.T.H.Y.: The Role of Biomarkers in Psychotherapy....Pages 283-300
Bridging Technology and Psychotherapy: Toward Investigating Psychological and Neural Correlates of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy....Pages 301-312
The Neurobiological Foundations of Psychotherapy....Pages 313-334
Front Matter....Pages 335-335
Commentary: The Coming of Age of Psychoanalytic Treatment Research....Pages 337-343
Front Matter....Pages 335-335
Process and Outcome in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Research: The Need for a (Relatively) New Paradigm....Pages 345-359
How to Make Practical Use of Therapeutic Alliance Research in Your Clinical Work....Pages 361-380
The Contributions of the Psychotherapy Process Q-Set to Psychotherapy Research....Pages 381-400
Attachment Theory and Research: Implications for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy....Pages 401-416
Accuracy of Defense Interpretation in Three Character Types....Pages 417-447
When Is Transference Work Useful in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy? A Review of Empirical Research....Pages 449-467
Front Matter....Pages 469-469
Single-Case Research: The German Specimen Case Amalia X....Pages 471-486
Combining Idiographic and Nomothetic Approaches to Single-Case Research....Pages 487-508
A Session of Psychoanalysis as Analyzed by the Psychotherapy Process Q-Set: Amalia X, Session 152....Pages 509-526
Front Matter....Pages 527-527
Ten Diverse Outcome Measures for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Research....Pages 529-552
Empirically Informed Clinical Interviewing for Personality Disorders....Pages 553-569
The Structured Interview of Personality Organization (STIPO): An Instrument to Assess Severity and Change of Personality Pathology....Pages 571-592
Back Matter....Pages 593-646