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Psychology, Clinical
Susanne Singer, Lena Maier, Anke Paserat, Klaus Lang, Bernhild Wirp, Joerg Kobes, Udo Porsch, Martina Mittag, Gerrit Toenges, Deborah Engesser
Summary: The study found that while the waiting time for the first visit did not decrease significantly after the reform in German psychotherapy law, the waiting time before starting psychotherapy had increased, especially for those with short waiting times (<10 weeks). This suggests that the reform may not have improved mental health care in terms of reducing waiting times.
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Guido Giovanardi, Alice Fiorini Bincoletto, Roberto Baiocco, Martina Ferrari, Daniela Gentile, Mauro Siri, Annalisa Tanzilli, Vittorio Lingiardi
Summary: The study examined the effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on the dreams of Italians, revealing a majority of dreams with negative emotions such as fear and anxiety. Themes that emerged from the content analysis included relationships, the human and natural environment, and COVID-19.
PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Psychoanalysis
Katrin Ahlstrom, Camilla von Below, David Forsstrom, Andrzej Werbart
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic forced therapists to switch to telepsychotherapy, initially facing challenges in technical and safety issues, resulting in decreased quality of therapy. One year later, therapists developed better coping strategies and returned to therapy focus.
PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
(2022)
Review
Psychology, Clinical
Chiara Ruini, Cristina C. Mortara
Summary: Writing Therapy (WT) is a process of investigation about personal thoughts and feelings using writing as a tool to promote self-healing and personal growth. It is integrated into specific psychotherapies to treat mental disorders and promote psychological well-being. The results show that WT not only alleviates symptoms and distress, but also enhances psychological well-being.
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOTHERAPY
(2022)
Review
Psychology, Clinical
Veronica McLaren, Matthew Gallagher, Chris J. Hopwood, Carla Sharp
Summary: This study conducted a meta-analysis to examine the association between hypermentalizing and psychopathology, specifically borderline personality disorder. Results showed that hypermentalizing is associated with psychopathology in general, rather than being specific to borderline personality disorder.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Psychoanalysis
Lauren Levine
Summary: Based on clinical experience with three women of color, the author argues for a radical shift in the analytic frame, suggesting that White analysts should actively address and discuss issues of race, racism, and racial identity. The author emphasizes the importance for White analysts to confront their inclination towards silence, complicity, and dissociation.
PSYCHOANALYTIC DIALOGUES
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Psychoanalysis
Jessica Leonardi, Francesco Gazzillo, Nino Dazzi
Summary: The paper emphasizes the fundamental role of unconscious processes in adaptation, discussing how unconscious processes can perform higher mental functions and introducing the control-mastery theory as an integrated, relational, cognitive-dynamic theory.
INTERNATIONAL FORUM OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
(2022)
Article
Psychiatry
Ali Ebrahimi, Mojtaba Elhami Athar, Mehdi Bakhshizadeh, Fahimeh Fathali Lavasani, Henrik Andershed
Summary: This study examined the Persian version of the Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory-Short Version (YPI-S) among 668 school-attending adolescents in Iran and found support for the validity of the test. However, it also revealed some cultural influences on the assessment of psychopathic traits.
BULLETIN OF THE MENNINGER CLINIC
(2022)
Review
Psychology, Psychoanalysis
Lauren R. Ahlquist, Brandon C. Yarns
Summary: This article explores the implementation of psychodynamic therapy in telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic and demonstrates the potential of video telehealth in facilitating emotional expressions. The study also highlights the benefits of using video telehealth for emotionally focused psychotherapy and its potential for teaching and training purposes.
PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
(2022)
Review
Psychology, Clinical
David Riedll, Gerhard Schuessler
Summary: This study aimed to provide a representative and global overview of the comorbidity between cancer and clinical depression. A systematic review of studies from 2007 to 2019 identified a prevalence rate of clinical depression in cancer patients ranging from 7.9% to 32.4%, with a mean of 21.2%. Different assessment methods led to variations in prevalence rates, but in general, the risk for a cancer patient to suffer from clinical depression during the first year after diagnosis was found to be 15% to 20%.
ZEITSCHRIFT FUR PSYCHOSOMATISCHE MEDIZIN UND PSYCHOTHERAPIE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Volker Tschuschke, Margit Koemeda-Lutz, Agnes von Wyl, Aureliano Crameri, Peter Schulthess
Summary: This study examines the importance of distances between therapists and clients in the therapeutic alliance, finding that an inability to establish a sufficient connection can lead to alliance ruptures and premature treatment termination. While alliance ruptures do not necessarily predict treatment outcome, the quality of therapists' attachment styles may play a crucial role in an effective working alliance.
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOTHERAPY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Weiting Ng, Kuei Rong Ong
Summary: This article evaluates the effectiveness of positive psychological interventions (PPIs) in different cultures, highlighting different responses to PPIs among Asians and those from Western cultures. It proposes adapting PPIs to suit collectivist cultures and suggests future directions for PPIs in this field.
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOTHERAPY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Francesco Gazzillo
Summary: According to Control-Mastery Theory, functional psychopathology arises from pathogenic beliefs that are primarily encoded non-verbally. These non-verbal pathogenic beliefs affect patients' bodily states and behaviors, and require clinicians to adjust their overall attitude, communication, and therapeutic relationship in order to disprove them.
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOTHERAPY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Psychoanalysis
Ramona Fimiani, Francesco Gazzillo, Nino Dazzi, Marshall Bush
Summary: This paper provides an overview of theoretical, empirical, and clinical aspects of survivor guilt, integrating recent contributions of psychodynamic theory and control-mastery theory, as well as findings in social psychology. It discusses the origins of survivor guilt in severe traumas, explores its manifestations in everyday social interactions, and highlights its role in psychopathology. A clinical vignette is used to illustrate the concept.
INTERNATIONAL FORUM OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Psychoanalysis
Pratyusha Tummala-Narra
Summary: This manuscript explores the complicity of psychoanalysis in colonized narratives of development and the impact on racial minorities. It also challenges theoretical assumptions of nonwhite people as dependent and inferior, and provides recommendations for decolonizing psychoanalysis through modifications in theory, practice, and training.
PSYCHOANALYTIC DIALOGUES
(2022)
Article
Psychiatry
Caitlin M. Pinciotti, Kelly Piacsek, Brian Kay, Brenda Bailey, Bradley C. Riemann
Summary: This study found that COVID-19 had a less significant overall impact on patients with OCD compared to mental health providers. Providers reported more significant impact on worrying time about COVID-19, additional cleaning and sanitization precautions, and time spent socializing with loved ones. The findings support previous literature on the resilience of individuals with OCD and provide insights into the specific struggles faced by providers treating OCD.
BULLETIN OF THE MENNINGER CLINIC
(2022)
Article
Psychiatry
Mark Schechter, Mark J. Goldblatt, Elsa Ronningstam, Benjamin Herbstman
Summary: Psychodynamic psychotherapy plays a crucial role in suicide prevention and has provided valuable insights into the human experience and the process of suicidality through psychoanalytic research. Understanding the unbearable emotional or psychic pain experienced by patients and their urgent need for relief is central to the psychoanalytic approach. Factors such as early attunement problems, dissociation, deficits in bodily love and protection, unconscious fantasy, certain character traits, and dynamics contribute to the vulnerability to suicidal states. Empirical research has validated many essential psychoanalytic concepts about suicide, including the escape from unbearable pain as the main driver of suicidal behavior, the role of dissociation in increasing the risk of self-harm, and the significance of unconscious processes. Further research into implicit processes holds potential to enhance suicide risk assessment and optimize psychotherapy outcomes.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION
(2022)
Editorial Material
Psychology, Clinical
Sue Kegerreis
PSYCHODYNAMIC PRACTICE
(2023)
Book Review
Psychology, Psychoanalysis
Dale Mathers
JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Book Review
Psychology, Psychoanalysis
Karin Fleischer
JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
