The changing shape of clinical practice: Driven by science or by pragmatics?

Poetics, pragmatics, schematics, and the psychoanalysis-research dialogue (Rift)

“…This problem, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy 323 which always existed in our midst, is now taking a very pernicious shape due to numerous socio-cultural eventualities impacting international health care. I will not repeat a poignant analysis of the problem which has already been made by some of our finest forces (Fonagy, 2010, also as interviewed by Jurist, 2010;Kernberg, 2006), but will only note that these eventualities are occurring at a rapid pace, and are here to stay. Our pace of accommodating to the problem has been fatally lacking.…”

The elephant tied up with string: a clinical case study showing the importance of NHS provision of intensive, time-limited psychoanalytic psychotherapy treatments

“…Fonagy (2010) cites two systematic reviews to this end. The first, De Maat, de Jonghe, Schoevers & Dekker (2009), studied a large number of patients treated with LTPP, and found good effect sizes which increased at follow-up.…”

Psychotherapy and psychotherapy research: Quo vadis?

“…And here we stumble upon the major problem with Carrere-Comes's approach: what if we disagree about the proposed approach? If systematic empirical research is not relevant, how then can we ever know that what we are doing is effective, or simply superstitious behavior that is perpetuated because we believe it is associated with improvement (Fonagy, 2010) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy and MBT typically report that training in these manualized treatments has increased their capacity to respond flexibly to unexpected situations in treatment (Bateman & Fonagy, 2009;Gelman, McKay, & Marks, 2010).…”