Psychotherapeutic Stance

Carsten René Jørgensen is Professor at the Department of Psychology, Aarhus University. He received a PhD in clinical psychology from Aarhus University in 1999. He has worked as an associate professor at the University of Aalborg and has been at Aarhus University for nearly two decades, where he became a full professor in clinical psychology in 2009. He has been Head of the Department of Psychology (2014-16), and vice head of the department (2016-19). Since 2002 Professor Jørgensen has also been affiliated with the Clinic for Personality Disorders, Aarhus University Hospital, Risskov/Skejby, where he has done empirical psychotherapy research and worked with long-term psychodynamic (including mentalization-based and psychoanalytic) psychotherapy for borderline and other personality disorders. He has completed formal training in group analytic psychotherapy from the Institute for Group Analysis, Copenhagen (1994-97). In 1993-96, he worked as a clinical psychologist at the regional psychiatric hospital (Hillerød) in the greater Copenhagen area (Day Hospital Department and Department for Psychotherapy in Helsingør). He has published six books (all published by the leading Scandinavian publisher Hans Reitzels Forlag in Copenhagen), around 20 book chapters in peer-reviewed books, and over 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part 1: What Can We Learn From Psychotherapy Research?.- Chapter 2. Psychotherapy as Sociocultural Practice.- Chapter 3. Medical vs. Dynamic-Relational Model of Psychotherapy.- Chapter 4. Common Therapeutic Factors.- Chapter 5. Randomized Controlled Trials.- Chapter 6. The Efficacy of Specific Treatment Methods.- Chapter 7. The Good Therapist.- Part 2: The Psychotherapeutic Stance.- chapter 8. The Basis of the Psychotherapeutic Stance.- Chapter 9. The Historical Bedrock of Psychotherapy. Freud’s Contribution - and Contemporary Corrections.- Chapter 10. What Characterizes the Psychotherapeutic Stance?.- Chapter 11. Channels of Communication and Levels in the Therapeutic Relationship.- Chapter 12. Conclusion.- References.