From empirical psychoanalytic research and outcome studies to the clinical practice

Authors

  • Henriette Löffler-Stastka

Abstract

The impact offindings gained in empirical psychoanalytic research and outcome studies on the psychotherapeutic treatment is reported. The importance of the empirical psychoanalytic research for the treatment of patients with personality disorders is shown in different naturalistic 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 externalizing 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

Henriette Löffler-Stastka

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

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Published

2009-01-01

How to Cite

Löffler-Stastka, H. (2009). From empirical psychoanalytic research and outcome studies to the clinical practice. Psychotherapie-Wissenschaft, (1), 21–28. Retrieved from https://psychotherapie-wissenschaft.info/article/view/62

Issue

No. 1 (2009): Psychotherapie Forum 17/1 (veröffentlicht bei Springer Wien New York)

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Special Issue

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