Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) is a brief psychodynamic psychotherapy developed for the treatment of mood disorders. It is being rolled out as part of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) initiative as the psychodynamic model for the treatment of depression.This book is a user-friendly, practical guide for the implementation of a brief psychodynamic intervention in routine clinical practice as well as in research protocols. It sets out clearly the theoretical framework, as well as the rationale and strategies for applying DIT with patients presenting with mood disorders (depression and anxiety). Throughout, it is illustrated with detailed examples that help the reader to implement the approach in their practice. The book will be required reading to support the national IAPT training initiative, as well as providing a resource for mental health professionals specialising in psychodynamic psychotherapy and wishing to work within a limited time frame.
Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) is a brief psychodynamic psychotherapy developed for the treatment of mood disorders. It is being rolled out as part of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) initiative as the psychodynamic model for the treatment of depression.This book is a user-friendly, practical guide for the implementation of a brief psychodynamic intervention in routine clinical practice as well as in research protocols. It sets out clearly the theoretical framework, as well as the rationale and strategies for applying DIT with patients presenting with mood disorders (depression and anxiety). Throughout, it is illustrated with detailed examples that help the reader to implement the approach in their practice. The book will be required reading to support the national IAPT training initiative, as well as providing a resource for mental health professionals specialising in psychodynamic psychotherapy and wishing to work within a limited time frame.
1: Dynamic-Interpersonal Therapy (DIT): New Wine in an Old
Bottle?
2: Why DIT for Mood Disorders?
3: Core Features and Strategies
4: The Initial Phase
5: The Interpersonal-Affective Focus (IPAF)
6: The Middle Phase
7: Techniques
8: Working in the transference
9: The Ending Phase
10: When Things Wrong
11: When Things Wrong
Professor Alessandra Lemma is Director of the Psychological
Therapies Development Unit at the Tavistock and Portman NHS
Foundation Trust. She is a clinical psychologist and a
psychoanalyst. She is Visiting Professor, Research Dept of
Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College,
and Visiting Professor of Psychological Therapies, School of Health
and Human Sciences at Essex University. She is a Fellow of the
British Psychoanalytic Society.
She has published several books and papers on psychotherapy and
psychoanalysis.
Professor Mary Target is a clinical psychologist and a
psychoanalyst. She is Professor of Psychoanalysis, Research Dept of
Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College
London; she is also Professional Director of the Anna Freud Centre.
She is a Fellow of the British Psycho-Analytical Society, and
Course Organiser of UCL's Masters in Theoretical Psychoanalytic
Studies and Doctorate in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapy. She carries out research on child
and adult attachment, personality functioning and mentalization,
and has a part-time psychoanalytic practice.
Peter Fonagy, PhD, FBA is Freud Memorial Professor of
Psychoanalysis and Head of the Research Department of Clinical,
Educational and Health Psychology at University College London;
Chief Executive of the Anna Freud Centre, London; and Consultant to
the Child and Family Program at the Menninger Department of
Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at the Baylor College of
Medicine. He is also a fellow of the British Academy.
The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Psychology is a massive collection
of perspectives between two hard covers. It is hardly vacation
reading, but its perusal can offer the interculturalist a couple of
benefits. First, it provides a perspective on what is happening in
psychological research that both reflects intercultural theory and
perhaps challenges it and may add to it Brief Dynamic Interpersonal
Therapy: A Clinician's Guide is essential reading for mental health
professionals who wish to continue to work psychodynamically in the
public health sector. It is an impressive and accessible protocol
and, as such, is to be highly recommended to neuroscientists and
psychodynamic psychotherapists alike who attempt to treat patients
with mood disorders-anywhere in the world.
*Neuropsychoanalysis*
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