Psicoterapia

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RIASSUNTO. Scopo. Il presente lavoro è uno studio di caso comparativo, parte di una ricerca sul processo psicoterapeutico. La ricerca descrive la percezione del tempo soggettivo in due processi psicoterapeutici, uno con esito positivo e l'altro no. Metodi. Abbiamo studiato, con un orientamento cognitivista, due processi psicoterapeutici, videoregistrati e trascritti integralmente seduta per seduta. Inizialmente è stata condotta un'analisi qualitativa (con approccio top-down) per codificare la qualità, e realizzata per identificare categorie dei diversi tipi di tempo soggettivo, che dipendono dai differenti stati di benessere psicologico...

INTRODUCTION: Few studies have investigated the effects of efficacious psychotherapy on structural alterations of discrete brain regions associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We therefore proposed to evaluate the neurobiological effects of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) on 19 patients with drug-naïve PTSD without comorbidity, matched with 19 untreated healthy controls. METHODS: We administered the Clinician Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) and conducted brain MRI measurements (with Optimized Voxel-Based Morphometry)...

Eating disorders are psychiatric conditions originated from and perpetuated by individual, family and sociocultural factors. The psychosocial approach to treatment and prevention of relapse is crucial. To present an overview of the scientific evidence on effectiveness of psychosocial interventions in treatment of eating disorders. All systematic reviews published by the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - Cochrane Library on the topic were included. Afterwards, as from the least recent date of these reviews (2001), an additional search was conducted at PubMed with sensitive search strategy and with the same keywords used...

The post-rationalist psychotherapy academy (non-classic cognitive approach) started at the end of the 80's with a series of consistent hypotheses. It is an academy which stems from contemporary psychotherapy and develops different areas, giving a strong contribution to theoretical and clinical psychotherapy. This academy has presented development as all other psychotherapy schools have, as well as the same difficulties and solutions. In this article, our aim is to show some tendencies that don't present an epistemological, theoretical, methodological and coherency, since these tendencies don't allow any confutation, which is the fundamental premise of Vittorio Guidano's academy...

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The present study explored the effects on therapeutic outcomes of training therapists in brief manualized therapy. As part of the Vanderbilt II project, each of 16 therapists (8 psychiatrists and 8 clinical psychologists) treated 2 moderately disturbed adult patients using his or her customary short-term treatment methods; they then received a year of training in a manualized form of brief dynamic therapy, Time-Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy (TLDP); finally, they administered TLDP to 2 additional patients. It was hypothesized that training would result in improved outcomes generally and that differentially greater improvement would be seen in patients commonly considered less suitable for brief dynamic therapy...

Evidence suggests that while clinical practitioners generally value scientific validity, most clinical practices are supported by personal experience and belief. On the other hand, the Empirically Supported Therapies are rejected by most therapists who consider them inflexible and poorly adapted to each particular case. Larry Beutler et al, have developed a method based on scientific evidence called Systematic Treatment Selection (STS), that guides the clinician in the decisions about which are the most appropriate type of interventions for each particular patient...