Main description:

The importance of conducting empirical research for the future of psychodynamics is presented in this excellent new volume. In Handbook of Evidence Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice, the editors provide evidence that supports this type of research for two primary reasons. The first reason concerns the current marginalization of psychodynamic work within the mental health field. Sound empirical research has the potential to affirm the important role that psychodynamic theory and treatment have in modern psychiatry and psychology. The second reason that research is crucial to the future of psychodynamic work concerns the role that systematic empirical investigations can have in developing and refining effective approaches to a variety of clinical problems. Empirical research functions as a check on subjectivity and theoretical alliances in on-going attempts to determine the approaches most helpful in working with patients clinically. Handbook of Evidence Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice brings together a panel of distinguished clinician-researchers who have been publishing their findings for decades. This important new book provides compelling evidence that psychodynamic psychotherapy is an effective treatment for many common psychological problems.

Contents:

Part I Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Bridging the Gap between Science and Practice

Foreword
Glen Gabbard, MD

Introduction
Raymond A. Levy, PsyD
J. Stuart Ablon, PhD

Part II Efficacy and Effectiveness Studies for Specific Disorders

1. The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Specific Disorders: A Review
Falk Leichsenring, PhD

2. Manualized Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Panic Disorder
Fred Busch, MD
Barbara Milrod, MD

3. Naturalistic Psychotherapy for Panic Disorder
Tai Katzenstein, PhD
J. Stuart Ablon, PhD
Raymond Levy, PsyD

4. Psychotherapy for Eating Disorders: A Review of Empirically-Supported Treatments
Heather Thompson-Brenner, PhD
Drew Westen, PhD

5. Empirical Evidence for Transference Focused Psychotherapy and Other Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
Ken Levy, PhD
Rachel Wasserman, MS
Lori N. Scot, MS
Frank Yeomans, MD, PhD

Part III Empirical Measures of Psychotherapy Process

6. Studying Change in Defensive Functioning in Psychotherapy, Using the Defense Mechanism Rating Scales: Four Hypotheses, Four Cases
J. Christopher Perry, MPH, MD
Stephen M. Beck, PhD
Prometheas Constantinides, MD
J. Elizabeth Foley, PhD

7. Process Measures for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Caleb J. Siefert, PhD
Jared A. Defife, PhD
Matthew R. Baity, PhD

8. Countertransference and Personality Pathology: The Development and Clinical Application of the Countertransference Questionnaire
Ephi Betan, PhD
Drew Westen, PhD

Part IV Theory , Technique and Process in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

9. Alliance, Negotiation and Rupture Resolution
Jeremy Safran, PhD
Christopher Muran, PhD

10. Affect-Focused Techniques in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Marc Diener, PhD
Mark Hilsenroth, PhD

11. Affect-Focused Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy: Empirically-Supported Strategies for Resolving Affect Phobias
Leigh McCullough, PhD
Molly Magill, PhD
12. Psychotherapy for Depression: Attaining and Sustaining Good Outcomes
Sid Blatt, PhD
David Zuroff, PhD
Lance Hawley, PhD

Part V The Neurobiology of Psychodynamic Theory and Psychotherapy

13. Neural Models of Psychodynamic Concepts and Treatments: Implications for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Andrew Gerber, MD
Josh Roffman, MD

14. Physiologic Monitoring in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Carl Marci, MD
Helen Riess, MD

Part VI Letters on Research in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

15. A Letter to my Friend and Researcher Colleague, Sy Entistle
Rolf Sandell, MD

16. The Perils of P-values: Why Tests of Statistical Significance Impede Progress in Research
John Kelley, PhD

17. From Psychoanalyst to Psychoanalyst/Researcher: A Personal Journey
Ira Lable, MD

18. Clinicians' Love/Hate Relationship with Clinical Research
Anne Alonso, PhD

19. Measuring and Enhancing the Impact of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Research: An Open Letter to Scientists and Clinicians
Anthony Weiss, MD, MSc