Mattias Desmet

Datos Biográficos

ID226942
NOMBREMattias Desmet
NOMBRESMattias
APELLIDODesmet
FIRMADESMET M
AFILIACIONESGhent University
ORCID0000-0002-7954-6078
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS29
TOTAL DE CITAS34
TOTAL COMO AUTOR29
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1999
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H2

  • Impact of personality style changes on CBT and PDT treatment responses in major depression

    Open AccessUfuoma Angelica Norman, Femke L Truijens et al.ARTICLEActa Psychologica2024

    This study examines the influence of depressive personality styles on treatment responses in patients with major depression receiving cognitive behavioural therapy and psychodynamic therapy. We assessed changes in personality styles, including dependency, self-criticism, sociotropy, and autonomy, and their association with treatment response. Both treatment modalities led to significant reductions in self-criticism and sociotropy scores. Depressi…

  • Depressive personality traits and temperament and character personality traits in a clinical sample

    Open AccessUfuoma Angelica Norman, Femke L Truijens et al.ARTICLEActa Psychologica2023

    Personality and psychopathology are highly relevant and easily relatable constructs. The current study investigated the relationships between dependency and self-criticism, sociotropy and autonomy depressive personality traits, and Cloninger's temperament and character personality traits postulated as vulnerability factors for depression, in relation to depressive and general psychopathology symptoms in a clinical sample of 100 patients diagnosed…

  • Psychology of Totalitarianism

    Mattias DesmetBOOKPsychology of Totalitarianism2022

  • How questionnaires shape experienced symptoms. A qualitative case comparison study of questionnaire administration in psychotherapy research

    Open AccessFemke L Truijens, Kimberly Van Nieuwenhove et al.ARTICLEQualitative Research in Psychology2021Referencias: 9

    Quantified symptom measurement by self-report questionnaires is part of the ‘gold standard’ of assessing psychotherapeutic efficacy. In this paper, we report a qualitative case comparison to explore how June and Amy, two patient-participants in a gold standard psychotherapy study, experienced the process of quantitative data collection. The study resembles cognitive interviewing studies conducted in the development of measures, yet advances them …

  • A Critical Perspective on Mental Health News in Six European Countries

    Open AccessLaura Van Beveren, Kris Rutten et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2020

    In this study, we aim to contribute to the field of critical health communication research by examining how notions of mental health and illness are discursively constructed in newspapers and magazines in six European countries and how these constructions relate to specific understandings of mental health literacy. Using the method of cluster-agon analysis, we identified four terminological clusters in our data, in which mental health/illness is …

  • Working through childhood trauma-related interpersonal patterns in psychodynamic treatment

    Kimberly Van Nieuwenhove, Femke L Truijens et al.ARTICLEPsychological Trauma Theory…2019

    We conclude that to adequately address interpersonal difficulties in therapy, it is fundamental to recognize dominant interpersonal patterns and to apprehend their dynamics within the broader context of the case. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)

  • When quantitative measures become a qualitative storybook

    Femke L Truijens, Mattias Desmet et al.ARTICLEQualitative Research in Psychology2019Citada por: 2Referencias: 6

    In psychotherapy research, treatment efficacy is commonly studied by means of self-report questionnaires to gain quantitative data on symptom development. The data serve as input for statistical analyses up to the level of evidence-based treatment. We analyzed how a patient in a psychotherapy study experienced the translation of her story into quantitative data by combining a phenomenological qualitative analysis of her therapeutic narrative and …

  • Interactions between obsessional symptoms and interpersonal dynamics

    Shana Cornelis, Mattias Desmet et al.ARTICLEPsychoanalytic Psychology2017

    Both classical and contemporary psychoanalytic theories stress the importance of interpersonal dynamics in treating neurotic symptoms. Associations between the symptomatic and interpersonal level were formally represented in the symptom specificity hypothesis (Blatt, 1974, 2004), which linked obsessional symptoms to an autonomous interpersonal stance. Findings from cross-sectional group studies on symptom specificity, however, do not converge, po…

  • The Presence of The Analyst in Lacanian Treatment

    Open AccessJoachim Cauwe, Stijn Vanheule et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American…2017Citada por: 2Referencias: 19

    Transference implies the actualization of the analyst in the analytic encounter. Lacan developed this idea through the syntagm presence of the analyst. In the course of his seminars, however, two completely different presences emerge, with major implications for how the treatment is directed. In the light of Lacan’s idea that the transference is constituted in Real, Symbolic, and Imaginary dimensions, it can be seen how in his early work the anal…

  • An Empirical Comparison of Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Processes

    Open AccessSureyya Iscan, Carolina Seybert et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American…2015Referencias: 4

    There has been increasing demand on psychodynamicially oriented therapists to empirically demonstrate the effectiveness of their interventions, and to associate these interventions with successful therapeutic outcome. Studies focused on psychoanalytic process have identified several process-related variables influencing the nature of the treatment and have demonstrated how therapy process changed over time, along with associations between process…

  • A metasynthesis of published case studies through Lacan's l‐schema

    Open AccessJochem Willemsen, Ruth Inslegers et al.ARTICLEThe International Journal of…2014Citada por: 2Referencias: 15

    Transference in perversion is characterized by specific problems such as a defiant and polemic attitude, erotic transference, projections, and aggression. Such transference poses particular problems in the treatment of perversion and might render analytical work with these patients impossible. The authors propose that Lacan's L-schema can contribute to separating productive from counterproductive aspects of transference as it distinguishes betwee…

  • Hysterical and Obsessional Transference Patterns

    Open AccessMattias Desmet, Reitske Meganck et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American…2013Referencias: 2

  • Hysterical and Obsessive-Compulsive Symptom Patterns

    Open AccessMattias Desmet, Reitske Meganck et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American…2013Referencias: 2

  • Anal and Oral Word Use in Relation to Dependency and Self-Criticism

    Open AccessStijn Vanheule, Mattias Desmet et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American…2013Citada por: 1Referencias: 2

  • The Tongue Ever Turns to the Aching Tooth

    Open AccessStijn Vanheule, Mattias Desmet et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American…2013Referencias: 3

    The Tongue Ever Turns to the Aching Tooth A Pilot Study of Depressed Patients’ Self-Preoccupation

  • Affective Processing and Affect Regulation

    Open AccessReitske Meganck, Stijn Vanheule et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American…2013Referencias: 6

  • Reconstruction and Validation of the Personal Style Inventory in a Flemish Clinical and Student Sample

    Open AccessMattias Desmet, Stijn Vanheule et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports2010

    The Personal Style Inventory-II (Robins, Ladd, Welkowitz, Blaney, Diaz, & Kutcher, 1994) was constructed to assess sociotropy and autonomy; two personality dimensions associated with increased susceptibility to depression. In the present study, the authors used a confirmatory factor analysis to evaluate the fit of the theoretical model of the Personal Style Inventory-II in a heterogeneous clinical sample (N=266) and in a student sample (N=799); c…

  • What the Heart Thinks, the Tongue Speaks

    Stijn Vanheule, Mattias Desmet et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports2009

  • The Depressive Experiences Questionnaire as a Measure of Psychoanalytic Constructs Reported to be Measured

    Open AccessMattias Desmet, Paul Verhaeghe et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports2009

    This study presents an empirical test of Coyne, Thompson, and Whiffen's statement that the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire does not measure the psychoanalytic constructs it is supposed to measure. Convergence was evaluated between the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire's Dependency and Self-criticism scales and clinicians' ratings on hysterical/anaclitic and obsessional/ introjective personality styles in a sex-balanced sample of 56 Flemis…

  • Does the 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale Measure Alexithymia? A Study of Natural Language Use

    Open AccessReitske Meganck, Stijn Vanheule et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports2009

    Construct validity of the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) was investigated by analyzing natural language use. It was hypothesized that the TAS-20 should be related to a lower use of emotion words and fewer references to social processes. 32 clinical interviews with mental health outpatients were analyzed with four categories of the computerized Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count dictionary: positive emotions, negative emotions, referenc…

  • What the Heart Thinks, the Tongue Speaks

    Open AccessStijn Vanheule, Mattias Desmet et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports2009

    The present study examined symptom-specificity in depression, testing the hypothesis that affective, cognitive, and somatic dimensions in depressive symptoms, as measured with the Beck Depression Inventory-II, cohere, respectively, with the use of affective-, cognitive-, and somatic-related words in natural language, as measured with the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count. Based on questionnaire and interview data from 32 mental health outpatients…

  • Interpersonal profiles and neurotic symptoms

    Mattias Desmet, Hubert Van Hoorde et al.ARTICLEPsychoanalytic Psychology2008

    The idea that neurotic symptoms are determined by interpersonal characteristics is of central importance for psychoanalytic theory, diagnostics, and treatment. In the present paper, the hypotheses were tested that (1) in general, neurotic symptoms are associated with interpersonal problems and (2) more specific, that a hysterical and an obsessional interpersonal dimension underlie the field of neurotic symptoms and that both dimensions are associ…

  • Dependent and Self-Critical Depression

    Open AccessStijn Vanheule, Mattias Desmet et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American…2008Referencias: 2

  • Anaclitic and Introjective Psychopathology and the Interpersonal Function of Perfectionism/Self-Criticism

    Open AccessMattias Desmet, Liesbeth Coemans et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American…2008Referencias: 4

    Blatt (1974, 2004) put forward that the phenomenological field of psychopathology could be subdivied into an anaclitic and an introjective cluster. Each of these clusters is underlain by a specific predisposing personality style that entails vulnerability for specific ‘triggering’ stressors. The theory of Blatt refers strongly to the classical psychoanalytic theory on the hysterical and obsessional dimensions in psychopathology, and also converge…

  • The Depressive Experiences Questionnaire

    Open AccessMattias Desmet, Stijn Vanheule et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports2007

    In both clinical and nonclinical samples, the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire is scored with a program that computes factor scores by using means, standard deviations, and item-loadings of a student sample. The underlying assumption of the use of this program in clinical samples is that factor scores computed on the basis of the student factor solution are similar to factor scores computed on the basis of a clinical factor solution. Conseque…