Psychoanalytic Studies of Change

Psychoanalytic Studies of Change presents recent studies of the process and outcome of psychoanalytic therapy with an integrative perspective.

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Siri Erika Gullestad is professor emeritus of clinical psychology at the University of Oslo, Norway. She is a training and supervising psychoanalyst and was awarded the Sigourney Award in 2019. An experienced teacher and supervisor, she is the author of numerous books and articles, including The Theory and Practice of Psychoanalytic Therapy: Listening for the Subtext (with Bjørn Killingmo, Routledge).

Erik Stänicke is professor of clinical psychology at the University of Oslo, Norway, and a training psychoanalyst. He is an experienced supervisor and teacher and is the author of numerous books and articles.

Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber is professor emeritus of psychoanalysis at the University of Kassel, Germany. She is former director of the Sigmund-Freud-Institut in Frankfurt am Main, senior scientist at the University of Medicine in Mainz, a training and supervising analyst and author of numerous books and articles. She is the recipient of awards including the 2016 Sigourney Award and the IPA's Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award.

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Psychoanalytic Studies of Change presents recent studies of the process and outcome of psychoanalytic therapy with an integrative perspective.

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Part I Process and outcome

1. Trajectory of change in the Individual and the Diagnostic Group: Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) and the Treatment of Personality Pathology

John Clarkin, Nicole Cain, & Eve Caligor.

From the Psychoanalysis of a Young Man in Emerging Adulthood

Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber and Gilles Ambresin.

3. Changes in dreams- an indicator for transformation processes in psychoanalysis: Clinical Outcome and Process Research in the MODE Study

Gilles Ambresin and Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber.

4. In the footsteps of Kandel. Epigenetics and therapeutic change

Juan Pablo Jimenez & Yamil Quevedo

5. Diagnosis of Personality Organization - Towards the Evaluation of Severity and Change

Stephan Doering

6. Group Analytic Psychotherapy. An effective treatment?

Steinar Lorentzen

Part II Conceptual studies

7. Psychoanalysis and its distinct epistemology

Erik Stänicke

8. Self-agency and self-reflection - building blocks for a dual self-theory

Werner Bohleber

9. The Mechanism of Change in the 'Talking Cure': A Neuropsychoanalytic Perspective

Mark Solms

10. In search of change: The role of affirmation

Siri Erika Gullestad

Part III Prevention

11. Contributing to public policies: A psychoanalytically informed program for helping mother and babies.

Rogerio Lerner.

12. The role of caregivers in the building of self-regulation and symbolization in early infancy

Clara Raznoszczyk Schejtman, Constanza Duhalde, Vanina Huerin, M. Pia Vernengo and Ines Vardy

13. "Building Baby Brains". A psychoanalytically inspired training program for helping mothers and their babies in Pakistan

Alexandra Harrison and Elizabeth Levey

Part IV In search of methods

14. The self and self-harm - towards a more nuanced understanding of self-harm in adolescence

Line Stänicke

15. Relational competence in psychotherapy

Cecilie Hillestad Hoff

16. Developing therapeutic competence: Learning to work in the transference

Hanne Strømme & Stephan Hau

17. A microanalytic method to investigate psychoanalytic process: In search of the in-between

Juan Pablo Jimenez & Carolina Altimir