How Treating Psychoanalysts Respond To Psychotherapy Research Constraints

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8332015
AutoresFredric N Busch (0009-0000-5978-6448, Cornell University Medical College, and Faculty, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, autor de correspondencia), Barbara L Milrod (Cornell University Medical College, and Faculty, New York Psychoanalytic Institute), Barbara Milrod (0000-0003-0320-6664, Cornell University), Marie Rudden (Cornell University Medical College, and Faculty, New York Psychoanalytic Institute), Marie G Rudden (Cornell University), Theodore Shapiro (Cornell University Medical College, and Faculty, New York Psychoanalytic Institute), Jean Roiphe (Cornell University Medical College, and Faculty, New York Psychoanalytic Institute), Meriamne Singer (Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Faculty, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research), Meriamne B Singer (Royal College of Physicians), Andrew Aronson (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
Año2001
Volumen49
Número3
Páginas961-984
Fecha de publicación2001-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00030651010490030601
PMID11678245
OpenAlexW2148339780
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas12

The psychoanalytic community increasingly recognizes the importance of research on psychoanalytic treatments, yet a significant number of psychoanalysts continue to believe that research is either irrelevant to psychoanalysis or impossible to accomplish. Psychoanalysts who accept the value of research express concern that intrusions required by research protocols create significant distortions in the psychoanalytic process. The authors, all psychoanalysts, are studying the outcome of a brief (twenty-four-session) psychodynamic treatment of panic disorder. They report their experiences and struggles with the intrusions of videotaping, working with a treatment manual, and time-limited treatment. This research process required them to question old beliefs and to confront feelings of disloyalty toward their analytic training and identity, particularly with regard to keeping a “clean field” and routinely performing long-term analysis of character. The therapists' psychoanalytic knowledge, however, emerged as crucial for them in managing specific research constraints. Despite concerns about providing inadequate treatment, therapists were found to engage patients with psychoanalytic tools and focus in vibrant and productive therapies that led to significant improvements in panic symptoms and associated quality of life. The authors suggest that psychoanalysts have been overestimating the potential damage of research constraints on psychoanalytic process and outcome

Anxiety · Feeling · Panic disorder · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychodynamic psychotherapy · Psychodynamics · Psychotherapist · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology