Psychotherapy and Medication: The Challenge of Integration

by Busch; Fredric N.

• ISBN13: 9780881634518
• ISBN10: 0881634514
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-06-14
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Over the past two decades, the use of medication combined with psychotherapy or psychoanalysis has shifted from an infrequent occurrence to common practice. Concurrently, attitudes toward medication have changed from viewing this intervention as disruptive or as a last resort to a welcome aid in the psychotherapeutic or psychoanalytic process. However, this relatively rapid change has created difficulty in the integration of medication use into the psychotherapeutic setting. Psychotherapy and Medicationis an exceptionally valuable and timely volume that provides psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and other mental health professionals with information on how to work with medication theoretically, clinically, and technically in the context of a psychotherapeutic or psychoanalytic treatment. Important areas of discussion include evidence that a change in the use of medication has taken place, an examination of the factors that have led to this shift, as well as a review of the issues and questions about combining treatments. Psychotherapy and Medicationalso serves as a framework in how to best answer the many questions that have arisen as the willingness of analysts to use medication increases. Such significant questions include: How should analysts introduce patients to medication? What are the clinical advantages of combined treatment? What is the impact of medication discussions and prescribing on the analyst "s role and how is this best handled?

Table of Contents

The Authors	p. ix
Acknowledgment	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Theoretical Bases of Combined Treatment	p. 7
Getting Started With Medication	p. 23
The Meaning of Medication	p. 41
Clinical Values of Combined Treatment	p. 63
Approaches to Treatment: The Prescribing Therapist	p. 83
Split Treatment	p. 105
Combined Treatment for Depressive and Anxiety Disorders	p. 119
Complex Cases	p. 141
References	p. 161
Index	p. 169
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