{"title":"Mentalization based supervision","authors":"Henning Jordet, Morten Kjølbye","doi":"10.1080/02668734.2022.2130408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02668734.2022.2130408","url":null,"abstract":"This article is a presentation of mentalization-based supervision with regard to focus, goals and means. The article is based on current theory of mentalization, and clinical practice with mentalization-based supervision. It presents a dimension to be considered in mentalization-based supervision, where the goal of stimulating mentalization is always in focus. This is illustrated in a sequence from a supervision session. It is possible to determine what mentalization-based supervision is and extract what makes it different of other psychotherapy supervision.","PeriodicalId":54122,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43757218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial","authors":"P. Cundy","doi":"10.1080/02668734.2023.2186071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02668734.2023.2186071","url":null,"abstract":"Welcome to the first issue of 2023. The APP recently changed its name, rebranding as the Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Sector. One of the reasons for this name change was a recognition of the breadth of settings beyond the NHS which use applied psychoanalytic thinking and practice. This includes not only the UK public sector but also numerous international settings, some of which were described in our recent ‘State of the Psychoanalytic Nation’ series of special issues (Cundy, 2022; Yakeley, 2020, 2021). The journal aims to reflect this scope, and welcomes contributions from around the globe. To this end Golan Shahar was appointed to the newly created role of ‘International Editor’ last year. Consequently I am delighted that this is a truly international issue, with each article originating from a different country. In our first paper, Nicole Canin (UK) offers a 25-year scoping review of psychoanalytic journal articles on premature birth from 1997 to 2021. Her findings highlight the trauma of premature birth, both for the infant and its parents. Prematurity may also place the parent-infant relationship at risk. The therapeutic imperative of interacting with the infant as a person is strongly emphasised. The evidence suggests that working in the NICU is emotionally challenging. However, a case is made for the critical role that psychoanalytic practitioners can play in supporting those impacted by premature infancy. Canin identifies gaps in the literature describing the experiences of siblings and fathers of premature infants, and the intersubjective processes that occur between premature infants and their parents. She highlights an overall lack of articles on the topic of prematurity, perhaps a consequence of the intensity of emotional pain inherent in working in this field, and argues that this area requires further attention given the prevalence of prematurity and its profound impact on infant development and parenting. The second article, by Fabiola Cortezia and Tagma Donelli from Brazil, continues our focus on the new-born. In ‘Parent-infant psychoanalytic psychotherapy when child development is at risk: process assessment’ they present a case study of a baby, her parents and a psychotherapist to describe the process and therapeutic interventions when child development is at risk. Developmental risk was assessed using the Risk Indicators for Child Development (IRDI). Thirty parent-infant psychotherapy sessions conducted over nine months were recorded in audio and video for subsequent analysis and classification by two independent observers. Frequency analysis and qualitative analysis of the collected data were performed. The results showed that there was a change in the types and number of therapeutic interventions used over the course of the treatment. The interventions which occurred the most were those specific to parent-infant psychoanalytic psychotherapy when child development is at risk, Psychoanalytic Psycho","PeriodicalId":54122,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41315031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Books available for review","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/02668734.2023.2186065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02668734.2023.2186065","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54122,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135755003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parent-infant psychoanalytic psychotherapy when child development is at risk: process assessment","authors":"Fabíola Scherer Cortezia, T. Donelli","doi":"10.1080/02668734.2022.2130409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02668734.2022.2130409","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study is understanding the psychotherapeutic process in parent-infant psychoanalytic psychotherapy when child development is at risk, focusing on therapeutic interventions. Participants in the research were a 4-month-old baby at the beginning of psychotherapy, whose development was at risk – assessed from the Risk Indicators for Child Development (IRDI) - her parents and a psychotherapist. Thirty parent-infant psychotherapy sessions were carried out over nine months, being recorded in audio and video and subsequently described in detail for classification and intervention analysis by two independent judges. Frequency analysis and qualitative analysis of the collected data were performed. The results showed that there was a change in the types and number of therapeutic interventions used throughout the treatment. The interventions which occurred the most were those specific to parent-infant psychoanalytic psychotherapy when child development is at risk, referred to as prosody. It is known that there is still much to be explored, and further studies would be needed to understand how other interventions in parent-infant psychoanalytic psychotherapy when child development is at risk are characterized, considering that this case may have its specificities, taking into account the history of the family and also the background and personal characteristics of the psychotherapist.","PeriodicalId":54122,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41755310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Service impact: how patients use mental health and medical services before and after psychodynamic psychotherapy","authors":"Naomi Entwistle, A. Polnay, Tom C. Russ","doi":"10.1080/02668734.2022.2147580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02668734.2022.2147580","url":null,"abstract":"Many patients referred for psychodynamic psychotherapy are also seen by other services. Due to the complex interplay between psychological distress, physical symptoms and care-seeking behaviour, engagement with a psychotherapy department has the potential either to increase or decrease use of other services. This service evaluation compared 268 patients’ service use in the year preceding and following contact with an NHS psychodynamic psychotherapy department using t-tests. There were no significant changes from before therapy to afterwards for the sample as a whole. However, for sub-groups who made regular use of services at baseline, a full course of psychotherapy (16+ sessions) was associated with a statistically significant reduction in outpatient contacts, both for mental health (N = 32, mean 11.69 appointment per year pre-therapy vs 5.16 post-therapy, p = 0.01) and medical services (N = 23, from mean 9.65 to 3.00, p < 0.01). No compensatory changes were found in either A&E or inpatient contacts, suggesting this represents an overall reduction in service use. Due to the study design, it was not possible to establish causality; there may be other reasons for this observed reduction such as natural illness course. These findings tentatively support the existing literature that psychodynamic psychotherapy is associated with a reduction in use of wider services.","PeriodicalId":54122,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43200385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Maroti, Henrik Hallberg, K. Lindqvist, Jakob Mechler
{"title":"Using psychodynamic principles in guided internet-delivered therapy (IPDT)","authors":"D. Maroti, Henrik Hallberg, K. Lindqvist, Jakob Mechler","doi":"10.1080/02668734.2022.2124441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02668734.2022.2124441","url":null,"abstract":"During the last years, a number of trials on internet-delivered psychodynamic treatment (IPDT) have shown promising results. In this article we discuss whether two important facets of psychodynamic therapy, that of the therapeutic relationship (especially the transference) and that of emotional processing, are applicable and useful in IPDT. We argue that the therapist role in IPDT does not need to be mainly a supportive one. In this article we try to illustrate that working with the transference relationship and facilitating deep emotional processing is possible in IPDT, potentially adding to the effect of solely taking a supportive stance in guiding through the self-help material. We argue that unguided treatments might make less sense when based on psychodynamic theory due to the lack of a therapeutic relationship and conclude by stating that future research on IPDT could use dismantling designs to establish what therapeutic techniques that are associated with change.","PeriodicalId":54122,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48478966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I. Urlić, E. Klain, S. Ivezic, B. Restek-Petrović, M. Grah
{"title":"Croatia: the development of a psychodynamic approach to the comprehensive treatment of persons with psychic disorders","authors":"I. Urlić, E. Klain, S. Ivezic, B. Restek-Petrović, M. Grah","doi":"10.1080/02668734.2022.2124440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02668734.2022.2124440","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the implementation of psychodynamic treatments in Croatia, and the development of training programmes and professional bodies to facilitate this approach. The article is written in three parts, commencing with a historical overview. This is followed by a detailed description of the development of Group Analysis in Croatia. The paper concludes with a comprehensive report of the RIPEPP programme, a psychodynamic intervention for people experiencing psychosis and members of their families.","PeriodicalId":54122,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47923692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial","authors":"P. Cundy","doi":"10.1080/02668734.2022.2131140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02668734.2022.2131140","url":null,"abstract":"Welcome to the third and final part of our special issue series entitled ‘State of the Psychoanalytic Nation’ which has charted the ways in which psychoanalytic psychotherapy has been developed, implemented, and researched within the public sectors of various nations around the world. This edition brings together accounts from Japan, India, Israel, Russia, Croatia and France. It concludes with a comprehensive overview of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Europe over the last thirty years. We begin with a paper entitled ‘The health insurance system and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Japan: the association with evidence-based practice’ by Akiyoshi Okada. Japan, like France, uses a system of universal public health insurance. Since 1958 this has enabled access to individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy. However, influenced by NICE, Japan has been exploring medical technology and cost-effectiveness evaluation since 2012. While the establishment of NICE in the UK was primarily intended to reduce the regional disparities in healthcare and ensure equity of access to cost-effective medical treatments, Japan appears to be primarily concerned with reducing the growing cost of medical care. This has led to clinical practice guidelines promoting ‘evidence-based psychiatry’ in Japan. Due to the lack of an evidence-base for psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Japan this has had a significant impact on its provision in the public health insurance system. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is currently facing a crisis of survival within Japan’s health insurance system, and without research evidence the future outlook for its expansion appears to be limited. Psychoanalysis in India can be traced back to 1922, but the second paper, by Abdul Salam, Amala Shanker and Malika Verma, describes how it soon fell into decline. The authors point to a number of contributing factors, including cultural differences between European and Indian conceptualisations of relationships and the mind; the association of psychoanalysis with colonialism; and an emphasis on academia rather than clinical practice. However, the authors point to a regrowth of psychoanalytically informed clinical practice. India was one of the first developing nations to recognize the need to address mental health and launched its National Mental Health Programme in 1982. This programme was delivered at district level with the objective of providing community mental health services in primary care by training a mental health team consisting of a psychiatrist, psychologist, psychiatric social workers, and nurses in each district, along with public education to increase awareness and reduce stigma. However, the programme faced challenges integrating these services into the communities in which they functioned. Due to the very large population of India Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 2022 Vol. 36, No. 4, 283–287, https://doi.org/10.1080/02668734.2022.2131140","PeriodicalId":54122,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41433860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}