Research on Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Adults

Horst Kachele is the former director of the University Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at Ulm University, Germany (1990-2000), also former director of the Research Centre for Psychotherapy, Stuttgart (1988-2004); he teaches now at the International Psychoanalytic University in Berlin. Camilla Renlund is an Adult Psychiatrist and a member of the research team of the Helsinki Psychotherapy Study, a randomized psychotherapy outcome study. She also works as a psychoanalyst in private practice in Helsinki and is an Associate Member of the Finnish Psycho-Analytical Society. Phil Richardson was a clinical psychologist and qualified as a psychoanalyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society. He was Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Essex and Head of Psychology at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust where he was also Director of the Psychotherapy Evaluation Research Unit.

• Preface -- Foreword -- The German multi-centre eating disorder study on the influence of psychodynamic psychotherapy on personality -- Differential treatment outcome of inpatient psychodynamic group work -- Investigating structural change in the process and outcome of psychoanalytic treatment: The Heidelberg–Berlin Study -- Contribution to the measurement of mode-specific effects in long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy -- Close family or mere neighbours? Some empirical data on the differences between psychoanalysis and psychotherapy -- Psychoanalytically orientated day-hospital treatment for borderline personality disorder: theory, problems, and practice -- Henderson Hospital democratic therapeutic community: outcome studies and methodological issues

'This is a pioneering volume of work in progress. It is important and exciting work by talented pioneers who have responded effectively to an intellectual as well as a professional call. It is clear from the variety of findings reported in this stimulating volume that many of the traditional ideas concerning psychoanalytic psychotherapy will need to be revised.'- Peter Fonagy, from the Foreword