Conversational analysis has turned out to be the salient feature to understand what promotes change in the psychoanalytic situation. This significant aspect of the first edition of this textbook is expanded in the second edition presenting prominent examples of contemporary process and outcome research fulfilling the criteria of evidence-based medicine.
Conversational analysis has turned out to be the salient feature to understand what promotes change in the psychoanalytic situation. This significant aspect of the first edition of this textbook is expanded in the second edition presenting prominent examples of contemporary process and outcome research fulfilling the criteria of evidence-based medicine.
The case presentations included in this volume provide insight into thinking and acting in psychoanalysis and relate directly to the theories taught in Vol. 1: Principles.
»If you don't have a good theory of the interaction process, you are at the mercy of it. This doesn't mean you need the ›right‹ theory, but you need to have a firm and good theory to hold on to. Otherwise the interpersonal encounter with the patient is so powerful that it simply washes you away.«
Peter Fonagy
Helmut Thomä
Helmut Thomä, Ordinarius für Psychotherapie der Universität Ulm von 1967 bis 1989, erhielt den Wissenschaftspreis der Stadt Ulm, den Sigmund Freud Preis der Stadt Wien sowie den Mary S. Sigourney Award der Amerikanischen Psychoanalytischen Gesellschaft; seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte lagen in der Psychoanalyse, Psychotherapie und psychosomatischen Medizin.
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