Description
Book SynopsisThis is the first manual to comprehensively examine the usefulness of exploratory psychotherapy in the treatment of panic disorder. It suggests that psychodynamic approaches can aid both psychopharmacological and cognitive-behavioral treatments and can often resolve panic symptoms in many patients when used as the sole treatment modality.
Trade ReviewThis book launches a bold and timely riposte at what is rapidly becoming the prevailing wisdom in American psychiatry, that the treatment of axis I disorders belongs in the domain of pharmacologically and behaviorally oriented approaches rather than in that of psychodynamic therapy, where it rested for so many years. Based on a preliminary study of nine patients with panic disorder, the editors, including two prominent psychoanalysts, have produced a psychodynamic formulation applicable to many or most patients with this disorder.
* American Journal of Psychiatry *
This manual is a beginning. It is well written and timely.
* Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic *
Table of ContentsA psychodynamic formulation for panic disorder. Overview of treatment. Initial evaluation and early sessions. Psychodynamic conflicts in panic disorder. Defense mechanisms in panic disorder. Transference, working though, and termination. Techniques of psychodynamic psychotherapy as they apply to panic disorder. Approaches to common problems in the treatment of panic patients. Combining panic-focused psychodynamic psychotherapy with other treatment approaches. Case example: Ms. P. References. Index.
