Lives Transformed

by Malan, David; Selva, Patricia Coughlin Della

• ISBN13: 9781855753785
• ISBN10: 1855753782
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-30
• Publisher: Karnac Books

Summary

In addition to a review of the literature on psychotherapy process and outcome, this book contains detailed clinical accounts of seven patients treated by an immensely powerful method of dynamic psychotherapy (intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy). This treatment is capable of producing major improvements, and even cure, in a wide range of patients. The authors believe that the scientific study of psychotherapy must include highly subjective judgments, provided the evidence upon which they are based is provided in great detail. In the present volume, verbatim transcripts from therapy sessions and follow-up interviews provide this kind of data, which can be evaluated by all who read them. Relying solely on paper and pencil tests, which evaluate only conscious material, is extremely limited and needs to be fortified by the kind of data provided here. This volume gives an account of what dynamic psychotherapy can achieve at its best. It combines detailed clinical case studies with the scientific research and also gives an overview of the literature available. It is based on the authors' extensive experience of researching and using psychodynamic psychotherapy.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT	vii
ABOUT THE AUTHORS	ix
PART I Overture, technique, literature
1 Overture	3	(7)
2 Introduction to the theory and technique of Davanloo's ISTDP	10	(24)
3 The literature: empirical support for Davanloo's ISTDP	34	(41)
PART II Exposition: four detailed therapies
4 The Man Divided
Initial interview and therapy	75	(36)
Follow-up	111	(8)
5 The Cold-Blooded Businessman
Initial evaluation	119	(10)
Therapy	129	(27)
Follow-up	156	(5)
6 The Good Girl with Ulcerative Colitis
Initial interview—trial therapy	161	(8)
Therapy	169	(24)
Follow-up	193	(12)
7 The Woman with Dissociation
Initial interview—trial therapy	205	(12)
Therapy and follow-up	217	(22)
PART III General discussion
8 The relation between predictions and actual events	239	(5)
9 Aspects of initial evaluation	244
10 Aspects of therapy
Anger, grief, and oedipal feelings	258	(16)
Further aspects of therapy	274	(20)
11 Aspects of outcome	294	(13)
PART IV Recapitulation and coda
12 The present work, traditional dynamic psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis	307	(5)
13 Conclusions	312	(5)
14 Coda	317	(6)
REFERENCES	323	(12)
INDEX	335