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Attention to emotion: auditory-evoked potentials in an emotional choice reaction task and personality traits as assessed by the NEO FFI
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Abstract Several studies suggest that attention to emotional content is related to specific changes in central information processing.
In particular, event-related potential (ERP) studies focusing on emotion recognition in pictures and faces or word processing
have pointed toward a distinct component of the visual-evoked potential, the EPN (‘early posterior negativity’), which has
been shown to be related to attention to emotional content. In the present study, we were interested in the existence of a
corresponding ERP component in the auditory modality and a possible relationship with the personality di...
Source: European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience - July 27, 2010 Category: Neuroscience Tags: European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience Source Type: journals
Personality Features and Personality Disorders in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Population-Based StudyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Psychother Psychosom 2010;79:312â318 (DOI:10.1159/000319312)
Source: Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics - July 27, 2010 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: journals
Depression, Alexithymia and Long-Term Mortality in Chronic Hemodialysis PatientsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Psychother Psychosom 2010;79:303â311 (DOI:10.1159/000319311)
Source: Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics - July 27, 2010 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: journals
CCGMP Psychiatry Chapter 08 - PsychotherapyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Modern Medicine - July 27, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: info
12. Pain Originating from the Lumbar Facet JointsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Although the existence of a "facet syndrome" had long been questioned, it is now generally accepted as a clinical entity. Depending on the diagnostic criteria, the zygapophysial joints account for between 5% and 15% of cases of chronic, axial low back pain. Most commonly, facetogenic pain is the result of repetitive stress and/or cumulative low-level trauma, leading to inflammation and stretching of the joint capsule. The most frequent complaint is axial low back pain with referred pain perceived in the flank, hip, and thigh. No physical examination findings are pathognomonic for diagnosis. The strongest indicator for lumb...
Source: Pain Practice - July 26, 2010 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Maarten van Kleef, Pascal Vanelderen, Steven P. Cohen, Arno Lataster, Jan Van Zundert, Nagy Mekhail Source Type: journals
Outpatient and day-hospital psychotherapy are the most cost-effective treatments for patients with cluster B personality disordersEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: PharmacoEconomics and Outcomes News - July 25, 2010 Category: Health Management Tags: Research article Source Type: journals
Persisters Or Desisters? Marburg Child Delinquency StudyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Children who come in conflict with the law early on in life do not necessarily become long-term criminals thereafter. This is one of the findings of the Marburg Child Delinquency Study that are described in the current issue of Deutsches �rzteblatt International by Helmut Remschmidt and Reinhard Walter of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Philipps University in Marburg, Germany (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2010; 107(27): 477-83)...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 24, 2010 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Psychology / Psychiatry Source Type: news
The illness and everyday living: close interplay of psychopathological syndromes and psychosocial functioning in chronic schizophreniaEmail this article to a colleague.
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Abstract The interaction of psychopathological states and psychosocial functioning determine the long-term course of schizophrenia
and its treatment. To be able to achieve this interplay better, exact assessment of psychosocial functioning is needed besides
measurement of psychopathology. Using the Personal and Social Performance (PSP) Scale, examination of the association between
psychosocial functioning and psychopathology was conducted in a sample of 103 patients with chronic schizophrenia. Rating
instruments were in addition Global Assessment of Functioning Scale and Social and Occupational Functioning A...
Source: European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience - July 23, 2010 Category: Neuroscience Tags: European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience Source Type: journals
Ecstasy-Assisted Psychotherapy May Help Patients With Treatment-Resistant PTSDEmail this article to a colleague.
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A new pilot study shows that methlylenedioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy) administered with psychotherapy may relieve symptoms of PTSD without evidence of harm for treatment-resistant patients. Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - July 22, 2010 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Psychiatry News Source Type: news
Once a delinquent, always a delinquent?Email this article to a colleague.
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(Deutsches Aerzteblatt International) Children who come in conflict with the law early on in life do not necessarily become long-term criminals thereafter. This is one of the findings of the Marburg Child Delinquency Study that are described in the current issue of Deutsches Aerzteblatt International by Helmut Remschmidt and Reinhard Walter of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Philipps University in Marburg, Germany.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 22, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
When You're Accused of Being UnfaithfulEmail this article to a colleague.
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As if caring for your spouse with dementia isn't stressful enough, imagine the additional strain posed by your spouse's adamant belief that you're being unfaithful. One of my nursing home patients with a loving, devoted wife was extremely angry with her for what he described as her "sleeping with three different men down the hall." Knowing he would become enraged by her visits, she began to visit less and less frequently. Despite three psychiatric hospitalizations, numerous medication trials, and attempts at psychotherapy, his delusion persisted. The details would never be the same, yet the overall theme of unfaithfulness ...
Source: About Alzheimers Disease - July 22, 2010 Category: Consumer Health Advice Source Type: consumer
Strategies for monitoring outcomes in patients with bipolar disorder.Email this article to a colleague.
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Practical strategies are available for primary care physicians to monitor psychiatric and medical outcomes as well as treatment adherence in patients with bipolar disorder. Current depressive symptoms can be assessed with tools like the 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire or Beck Depression Inventory. Lifetime presence or absence of manic or hypomanic symptoms can be assessed using the Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ). These measures can be completed quickly by patients prior to appointments. Sensitivity of such ratings, particularly the MDQ, can be increased by having a significant other also rate the patient. Clinic...
Source: Primary Care Companion to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry - July 21, 2010 Category: Primary Care Authors: Ketter TA Tags: Prim Care Companion J Clin Psychiatry Source Type: journals
Treatment-Resistant PTSD Relieved By MDMA (Ecstasy)-Assisted PsychotherapyEmail this article to a colleague.
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MDMA (±3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, also known as Ecstasy), may one day offer hope for individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), even people for whom other treatments have failed. Clinical trial results published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, published by SAGE, suggests that MDMA can be administered to subjects with PTSD without evidence of harm and could offer sufferers a vital window with reduced fear responses where psychotherapy can take effect...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 20, 2010 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Psychology / Psychiatry Source Type: news
Depression, mood, stress, and Th1/Th2 immune balance in primary breast cancer patients undergoing classical massage therapyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Conclusions Massage therapy is an efficient treatment for reducing depression in breast cancer patients. Insignificant results concerning
immunological parameters, stress, and mood indicate that further research is needed to determine psychological and immunological
changes under massage therapy.
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Original ArticleDOI 10.1007/s00520-010-0946-2Authors
Michaela Krohn, Charité University Medicine Berlin Department of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy Berlin GermanyMiriam Listing, Charité University Medicine Berlin Department of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy Berlin...
Source: Supportive Care in Cancer - July 20, 2010 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Supportive Care in Cancer Source Type: journals
MDMA (Ecstasy)-assisted psychotherapy relieves treatment-resistant PTSD, study suggestsEmail this article to a colleague.
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MDMA (also known as Ecstasy), may one day offer hope for individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), even people for whom other treatments have failed. Clinical trial suggests that MDMA can be administered to subjects with PTSD without evidence of harm and could offer sufferers a vital window with reduced fear responses where psychotherapy can take effect.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - July 20, 2010 Category: Science Source Type: news
MDMA (Ecstasy) Assisted Psychotherapy Relieves Treatment Resistant PTSDEmail this article to a colleague.
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First completed clinical trial results out today in the Journal of Psychopharmacology.
Source: Disabled World - July 20, 2010 Category: Disability Tags: Psychological Disorders Source Type: info
Accessibility to a parent's psychotherapy records in custody disputes: How can the competing interests be balanced?Email this article to a colleague.
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This article will examine the balancing challenge, review the scope and function of the psychotherapist-patient privilege, discuss different states' approaches to the balancing challenge, and propose that preserving the privilege creates the most effective, long-term balance. The article concludes with strategies on addressing privilege issues in custody cases. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Source: Behavioral Sciences and the Law - July 20, 2010 Category: Medical Law Authors: Carlton D. Stansbury Source Type: journals
Bulimia nervosaEmail this article to a colleague.
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New evidence; conclusion confirmed for:
CBT for bulimia nervosa One systematic review updated, no new RCTs added from this systematic review. Categorisation unchanged (Likely to be beneficial).
CBT plus exposure/response prevention therapy One systematic review updated, no new evidence found. Categorisation unchanged (Unknown effectiveness).
Pure or unguided self-help CBT One systematic review updated, no new RCTs found. Categorisation unchanged (Unknown-effectiveness).
Guided self-help CBT One systematic review added. It found one RCT, which d...
Source: Clinical Evidence - July 20, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: journals
The "torpillage" neurologists of World War I: Electric therapy to send hysterics back to the frontEmail this article to a colleague.
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The French neurologists and psychiatrists who were mobilized during the Great War were confronted with numerous soldiers with war neuroses, often with novel clinical manifestations such as camptocormia. They addressed hysteria and pithiatism according to concepts that had been formed before the war, and many doctors considered these soldiers to be malingerers. As a result, the use of aggressive therapies to enable their prompt return to the battlefront was advocated. In 1915–1916, Clovis Vincent (1879–1947) developed a method called torpillage, a "persuasive" form of psychotherapy using faradic and galvanic ele...
Source: Neurology - July 19, 2010 Category: Neurology Authors: Tatu, L., Bogousslavsky, J., Moulin, T., Chopard, J.-L. Tags: History of Neurology HISTORICAL NEUROLOGY Source Type: journals
Issues in Psychotherapy with Clients Affiliated with the Opposing Side in a Violent Political ConflictEmail this article to a colleague.
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Abstract The therapeutic dyad of clinician and client affiliated with rival groups in a violent conflict shares many features that
complicate psychotherapy with persons of different ethnic, racial, and cultural groups, including lack of knowledge, negative
stereotyping, differences in fundamental values and world views, and power differentials. Although a great deal has been written
about these matters, very little has been written about the therapeutic dynamic where therapist and client are affiliated
with different sides of a violent political conflict. Based on the sparse literature on the subject and on ...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - July 19, 2010 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals
Promise and Problems: Aggression in Male Led Preadolescent Girls Group TreatmentEmail this article to a colleague.
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Abstract This paper discusses different forms of aggression exhibited by children and challenges previous conclusions that boys are
more aggressive than girls. After an analysis of how aggression manifests in girls who have experienced significant environmental
deficits, transferential issues between male practitioners and female youth clients are considered. Finally, group psychotherapy
is proposed as an appropriate modality for containing aggression and addressing the needs of girls who struggle with social
disturbances.
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Original PaperDOI 10.1007/s10615-010-0290-5A...
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - July 19, 2010 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals
Ecstasy Helps Treat PTSD Patients, Trial FindsEmail this article to a colleague.
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83% of Patients with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Showed No Symptoms After Combination Psychotherapy and Drug
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - July 19, 2010 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Trial Finds PTSD Patients Responsive to EcstasyEmail this article to a colleague.
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83% of Patients With Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Showed No Symptoms After Combination Psychotherapy and Drug
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - July 19, 2010 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Ecstasy tested for trauma therapyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Conclusion
This is a small, pilot study. The findings may lead to further research, but it is too soon to state that MDMA can be used to treat trauma victims. Importantly, the researchers note that people who were given MDMA also had far more supplementary psychotherapy sessions. This has two implications:
First, it raises the possibility that it was these additional psychotherapy sessions that had an effect on PTSD symptoms and not the MDMA (the researchers say that this is not a likely explanation because a treatment effect was apparent only four days after the first session, i.e. before the participants had been thro...
Source: NHS News Feed - July 19, 2010 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Mental health Medication Source Type: news
MDMA (Ecstasy)-assisted psychotherapy relieves treatment-resistant PTSDEmail this article to a colleague.
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(SAGE Publications UK) MDMA (also known as Ecstasy), may one day offer hope for individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), even people for whom other treatments have failed. Clinical trial results out today in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, published by SAGE, suggests that MDMA can be administered to subjects with PTSD without evidence of harm and could offer sufferers a vital window with reduced fear responses where psychotherapy can take effect.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - July 19, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
A longitudinal study of emotional experience, expressivity, and psychopathology in psychotherapy inpatients and psychologically healthy personsEmail this article to a colleague.
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The authors investigated changes of emotional experience and expressivity in 34 inpatients undergoing psychodynamic therapy and in 29 healthy persons who were assessed at parallel time intervals. Participants completed 2 measures of psychopathology (Symptom Checklist-90 Revised and Inventory of Interpersonal Problems-64) and took part in relationship episode interviews. The emotional experiences they reported and their nonverbal emotional expressivity during the interviews were assessed by independent raters. Regardless of when they were assessed, the patients reported a greater number of emotions and a greater variety of ...
Source: Journal of Clinical Psychology - July 18, 2010 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Daniel Leising, Tilman Grande, Rainer Faber Source Type: journals
Involvement of the human ventrolateral thalamus in olfactionEmail this article to a colleague.
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Abstract It is widely assumed that the thalamus is not involved in olfaction. The ventrolateral thalamus is, however, closely connected
to the contralateral cerebellum, which is involved in the sense of smell based on findings from functional imaging studies
and findings of olfactory deficits in patients with cerebellar disease. We hypothesized that olfactory deficits following
lesions of the ventrolateral thalamus may be similar to olfactory deficits following cerebellar lesions. Fifteen patients
with a focal thalamic lesion involving the ventrolateral thalamus were examined and compared to 15 patients with...
Source: Journal of Neurology - July 16, 2010 Category: Neurology Tags: Journal of Neurology Source Type: journals
Psychotherapy Supervision Since 1909: Some Friendly Observations About its First CenturyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Abstract Now a century old, psychotherapy supervision occupies a place of increasing prominence across all mental health disciplines
and appears to generally be regarded as a (if not the) sine qua non for the teaching and learning of psychotherapy. Psychotherapy
supervision has emerged as our “signature pedagogy.” In this paper, I take a look back at supervision’s last century and consider
some (but by no means all) of the salient issues and themes that have defined its science and practice. The reviewed supervision
issues and themes include the following: (1) the beginnings and evolution of supervisio...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - July 16, 2010 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Journal of Contemporary psychotherapy Source Type: journals
De-escalating angry and violent clients.Email this article to a colleague.
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Lately, encounters with angry clients seem to be more frequent and sometimes violent. While I do not claim to know why this is happening, in the course of 20 years of practice, I have developed insights into managing the angry and violent and de-escalating these situations.
PMID: 20617790 [PubMed - in process]
Source: American Journal of Psychotherapy - July 16, 2010 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Fauteux K Tags: Am J Psychother Source Type: journals
Is the concept of corrective emotional experience still topical?Email this article to a colleague.
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This article gives a historical review of the literature concerned with the role of emotional factors in psychoanalysis. The author then focuses on Alexander's milestone contribution and above all, on the concept he developed of corrective emotional experience. Alexander moves gradually over time from the classical position, which gives insight a place of choice, to a more radical view, in which, the most effective therapeutic factor is represented by the emotional experience within the therapeutic relationship. The article includes a review of the literature relevant to the concept of corrective emotional experience. Fina...
Source: American Journal of Psychotherapy - July 16, 2010 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Palvarini P Tags: Am J Psychother Source Type: journals
Personality disorders: a dimensional defense mechanism approach.Email this article to a colleague.
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Categorical disease models of personality disorder currently dominate in the DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10 diagnostic systems. In preparation for DSM-V, these models have been questioned in light of evidence and widely held beliefs that disorders of personality are extreme variants of normal personality. Unfortunately, problems arise in trying to produce a dimensional model of abnormal and normal personality, such as how aspects of normal personality can be applied to personality disorders, and the all-important issue of precisely what aspect of normal personality is overextended in these disorders. In contrast to other approac...
Source: American Journal of Psychotherapy - July 16, 2010 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bowins B Tags: Am J Psychother Source Type: journals
Reality matters: attachment, the real relationship, and change in psychotherapy.Email this article to a colleague.
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Early attachment relationships and their inherent emotional regulation formatively effect psychoneurobiologic development. Implicitly learned relational interactions begin within the context of such relationships, and as habitual responses to strong emotions, such as fear, ultimately define character. The psychotherapeutic attachment relationship can positively affect change in developmental processes compromised in earlier relationships, influencing character change. The early attachment relationship is evaluated for features that become relevant as the therapeutic attachment relationship and real relationship--the re...
Source: American Journal of Psychotherapy - July 16, 2010 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Duquette P Tags: Am J Psychother Source Type: journals
Forty-two years of death and dying: lessons learned.Email this article to a colleague.
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A call from the "cancer floor" sets a second-year psychiatric resident on a 42-year journey in treating patients with terminal illness. Far from being an unremittingly sad experience, working with patients who are approaching death helped refine a sense of focus on the importance of the day-to-day experience.
PMID: 20617786 [PubMed - in process]
Source: American Journal of Psychotherapy - July 16, 2010 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Klagsbrun S Tags: Am J Psychother Source Type: journals
Training Psychiatrists in Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy: Current Status and HorizonsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Current Psychiatry Reviews - July 15, 2010 Category: Psychiatry Authors: D Friedberg, RobertMahr, SafiaMahr, Fauzia Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
Counselling for dementia caregivers—predictors for utilization and expected quality from a family caregiver’s point of viewEmail this article to a colleague.
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Abstract Caregiver counselling has proved to be effective in reducing the burden of family caregivers of dementia patients. Nevertheless,
little is known about the influencing factors for utilization and quality expectations of family caregivers. In this article,
we address the following questions on the theoretical base of the Andersen/Newman model: Which variables of the care situation,
the caregivers and their attitudes act as predictors for the utilization of caregiver counselling? What are the views of caregivers
about the quality of caregiver counselling? The cross-sectional study was carried out as an...
Source: European Journal of Ageing - July 15, 2010 Category: Geriatrics Tags: European Journal of Ageing Source Type: journals
[Adverse side-effect on sexual function caused by psychotropic drugs and psychotropic substances.]Email this article to a colleague.
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Unhindered sexuality plays an important role in the quality of life and this also holds true for patients with psychiatric illnesses. Knowledge concerning the complex neuronal and endocrine control mechanisms of sexual function reveals areas of possible dysfunction caused by the interactions between the control system, psychiatric drugs and addictive psychoactive substances. The differentiation of the cause of the dysfunction between being caused by the underlying illness and caused by other factors is difficult in practice. Both classical tri-cyclic antidepressants and selective serotonin uptake inhibitors can frequen...
Source: Der Nervenarzt - July 15, 2010 Category: Neurology Authors: Cohen S, Kühn KU, Sträter B, Scherbaum N, Weig W Tags: Nervenarzt Source Type: journals
[Does psychotherapy alter the brain? A non-reductionist neurophilosophical perspective.]Email this article to a colleague.
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<span class="subtitle">summary</span> <span class="subtitle">background</span> Psychiatry and ‘philosophy of mind’ are both concerned with the study of the relationship between body/brain (‘physical’ domain) and mind (‘mental’ domain), but often there is little interaction between both disciplines. In contemporary psychiatry, neurobiological research predominates, and it is often assumed that the results of this type of research are only compatible with reductionist physicalist positions in the ‘philosophy of mind’, ...
Source: Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie - July 14, 2010 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Vandenberghe J, van Oudenhove L, Cuypers SE Tags: Tijdschr Psychiatr Source Type: journals
[The relationship between interpersonal subtypes and the modification of interpersonal problems in psychotherapy inpatients.]Email this article to a colleague.
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Conclusions: According to the circumplex structure of IIP data, for group level evaluation it is necessary to generate interpersonal subtypes so that clinically relevant results can be demonstrated.
PMID: 20623463 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Zeitschrift fur Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie - July 14, 2010 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Salzer S, Streeck U, Jaeger U, Masuhr O, Warwas J, Leichsenring F, Leibing E Tags: Z Psychosom Med Psychother Source Type: journals
[Operationalized psychodynamic diagnostics (OPD) in patients in a prodromal state of schizophrenia - An explorative study.]Email this article to a colleague.
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Conclusions: Particularly the differences between the prodromal subgroups suggest that application of the OPD may positively complement previous approaches of early detection, prevention,and psychotherapy for prodromal conditions. The hypotheses obtained should be tested in longitudinal studies with larger sample sizes.
PMID: 20623460 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Zeitschrift fur Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie - July 14, 2010 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Uzdawinis D, Edel MA, Ozgürdal S, von Haebler D, Hauser M, Witthaus H, Gudlowski Y, Heinz A, Juckel G Tags: Z Psychosom Med Psychother Source Type: journals
CAN WE BE BRIEF?Email this article to a colleague.
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The author explores the subjective and objective nature of time in relation to brief psychotherapy, the contemporary contexts for this work and the impact of research on the changing culture of provision of counselling/psychotherapy. She describes clinical treatment using a brief Dynamic Relational approach with a traumatized patient in primary care who presents with panic and depression. Through this case she illustrates the most significant points of technique in her interpretation of this approach: assessment through interactional aspects of the first and second meetings, further assessment through history-taking and th...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 14, 2010 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Anna Bravesmith Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
A QUESTION OF ABSENCEEmail this article to a colleague.
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This paper was written in an effort to process rather extreme countertransference reactions to an 'absent' patient, i.e. one who attended her twice-weekly psychotherapy only sporadically. At times she did not come for up to several months and consequently a serious debt would accrue. However, it was not so much the amount owing but rather the constant cancellations, with seemingly 'rational' excuses about her non-attendance that would provoke an intense frustration accompanied, at times, by furious, almost sadistic countertransference feelings. The patient kept her therapist 'dangling in uncertainty' (Brenman Pick, 2002), ...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 14, 2010 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jackie Gerrard Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
THE O OF EMPTINESS AND THE EMPTINESS OF OEmail this article to a colleague.
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In this paper I try to show how Bion's sense of 'O' may usefully be seen as similar to the Buddhist notion of emptiness. I try to instantiate some of his ideas and I hope that by doing so I might contribute to the realization in the consulting room of his injunctions. I try to explore a possible difference in interpretation between the terms identity and identification and to use the distinction to suggest how emptiness can clarify the real nature of the ego as Freud accounted of it and how its realization can instantiate ego strength.
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 14, 2010 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steven Mendoza Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
EDITORIAL INTRODUCTIONEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 14, 2010 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marguerite Valentine Tags: Papers on Matte Blanco Source Type: journals
MATTE BLANCO AND THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL REALM OF THE UNCONSCIOUSEmail this article to a colleague.
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The author offers an introduction to the work and thinking of the Chilean psychoanalyst, Ignacio Matte Blanco (1908[ndash]1995), which can be understood as the exploration of the logical properties inherent in Freud's five characteristics of the unconscious (Freud, 1915). One consequence of these properties is that unconscious phenomena behave as if they occupy dimensions that are greater than those of conscious phenomena. These are the three dimensions of space and one dimension of time. The unconscious has to be 'unfolded' or 'translated' out of this higher number of dimensions into those available for conscious represen...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 14, 2010 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Richard Carvalho Tags: Papers on Matte Blanco Source Type: journals
PASSION AND SIMILARITY: THE CLINICAL APPLICATION OF MATTE BLANCO'S IDEASEmail this article to a colleague.
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I will focus on Matte Blanco's hypothesis of emotion and the unconscious as being substantially the same. This concept allows us to apply the same instruments to understanding emotional reactions as we use with manifestations of the unconscious, such as dreams and symptoms. The tendency towards undifferentiation in the deepest strata of the mind is capable of mobilizing dramatic experiences of inappropriate amplification of the concept of identity. When a simple relation of similarity is translated into equivalence, a symmetrization arises and different people or situations on a basis of a single common characteristic are ...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 14, 2010 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alessandra Ginzburg Tags: Papers on Matte Blanco Source Type: journals
'DEATH'S DREAM KINGDOM': THE REPRESENTATION OF THE UNCONSCIOUS IN APOCALYPSE NOWEmail this article to a colleague.
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The film Apocalypse Now, first released in 1979, is now recognized as Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece. Inspired by Joseph Conrad's 19th century novella Heart of Darkness, the film tells the story of a journey upriver into a threatening interior where the protagonists face the challenge of attack from an unseen and savage enemy, disease, madness and death. The film can be 'read' from a number of different perspectives: as representing the USA's conflict with Vietnam, as a journey into man's soul or, from a psychoanalytic perspective, as representing the unconscious. Derived from this perspective, the author questions why...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 14, 2010 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marguerite Valentine Tags: Papers on Matte Blanco Source Type: journals
THE QUESTION OF GOD AND THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITYEmail this article to a colleague.
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This paper begins with an explanation of the five strata of mental life that Ignacio Matte Blanco described. In the first stratum common sense (Aristotelian) logic is employed, whereas the fifth stratum is dominated by symmetric logic, the logic of the unconscious which, when taken to the extreme, identifies everything with everything else. The intermediate strata use a mix of the two logics in different proportions. The discourse generated by each stratum has certain typical features: factual assertions in the first, simile in the second, metaphor and symbol in the third, paradox and contradiction in the fourth, and the s...
Source: British Journal of Psychotherapy - July 14, 2010 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rodney Bomford Tags: Papers on Matte Blanco Source Type: journals
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