The “Grawe effect”: from polemic to catalysis of positive evolvements in the field of psychotherapy

Authors

  • Markus Fäh

Abstract

The impact offindings gained in empirical psy-choanalytic research and outcome studies on the psycho-therapeutic treatment is reported. The importance of the empirical psychoanalytic research for the treatment of pa-tients with personality disorders is shown in different natu-ralistic efficacy studies. Interpretation of the dominating affect and of the transference-relationship-dyad could be confirmed as essential for the treatment progress. The empirical studies point at the necessity of interpreting affect-regulatory parameters, such as the hostile-externalizing-dysphoric parameter, from the very beginning of the treatment on. Acknowledgement and recognition of externaliz-ing and projective mechanisms should be trained in the psychotherapeutic routine treatment in order to establish a stable working alliance with the patient. The assessment of counter-transference as an additional parameter for evaluation of psychoanalytic process is focused and a model for evaluation (“notation") of psychotherapeutic treatments is reported.

Keywords Empirical psychoanalytic research, personality disorders, psychotherapeutic practice, treatment technique, notation and evaluation.

Author Biography

Markus Fäh

Dr. med. Henriette Löffler-Stastka, Geboren 1971. Fachärztin für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapeutische Medizin, Psychoanalytikerin (Wiener Psychoanalytische Vereinigung), Universitätsassistentin an der Universitätsklinik für Psychoanalyse und Psychotherapie, Medizinische Universität Wien. Forschungsschwerpunkte: Psychotherapieforschung, Psychoanalyse bei Patienten mit schweren Persönlichkeitsstörungen.

Korrespondenz: Dr. Henriette Löffler-Stastka, Univ.-Klinik für Psychoanalyse und Psychotherapie, Medizinische Universität Wien, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1090 Wien, Österreich

Published

2006-01-01

How to Cite

Fäh, M. (2006). The “Grawe effect”: from polemic to catalysis of positive evolvements in the field of psychotherapy. Psychotherapie-Wissenschaft, (1), 42–46. Retrieved from https://psychotherapie-wissenschaft.info/article/view/341