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Edited by Robert F. Bornstein and Joseph M. Masling
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LIST PRICE: $29.95
MEMBER/AFFILIATE PRICE: $24.95
321 pages
ITEM #: 431607A
ISBN: 1-55798-526-X
ISBN 13: 978-1-55798-526-2
PUBLICATION DATE: September 1998
EDITION: Hardcover
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In recent years, the empirical study of psychoanalytic treatment has undergone a fundamental change. No longer are researchers satisfied with studying the outcome of psychodynamic treatment techniques to see whether psychoanalysis yields measurable therapeutic effects. Researchers today are interested in understanding how psychoanalytic interventions work by examining the processes that underlie psychotherapeutic growth and change.
A variety of research methods are used to test the efficacy of psychoanalytic treatment, including session-by-session analyses, detailed examinations of therapist-patient exchanges within the analytic hour, and intensive studies of single (or multiple) treatment cases. Taken together, studies in this area confirm the value of psychological problems.
Book Review
The editors have contributed importantly, particularly in their intelligent, frank, and elegant overview of the current state of the field of psychoanalysis in its increasingly unpropitious research environment. Their sophisticated and balanced treatment of the continuing conceptual debates in the field, including those among investigators regarding the justification for continued reliance on the individual case model, is itself well worth the price of the entire volume…The robust research labors of these investigators have brought forth a veritable mountain of data, conclusions, and imaginative speculations.
—The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Vol. 187, No. 11 (Nov. 1999)
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