An advanced specialist-level training programme in psychodynamic individual psychotherapy of psychotic and borderline patients: the Finnish approach.

Autor: Aaltonen, Jukka, Alanen, Yrjö O., Keinänen, Matti, Räkköläinen, Viljo
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Zdroj: European Journal of Psychotherapy, Counselling & Health; Mar2002, Vol. 5 Issue 1, p13-30, 18p
Abstrakt: Most training programmes in individual psychotherapy, including psychoanalytic training are, in practice, restricted to the treatmentof lessdisturbed patients than those who have succumbed to psychotic or severely borderline-level disorders. This has had a delaying effect on the development of psychotherapy with such patients. Psychotherapy of severely disturbed patients is usually regarded as a difficult domain and is often practised only by psychoanalysts or other psychotherapists specially dedicated to working with patients of this kind. Between 1994 and 1997, an advanced multi-professional training programme in psychodynamic individual therapy with an emphasis on borderline and psychotic-level disorders was organized through the Centre for Extension Studies of the University of Turku, Finland, to close the gap in systematic training for the treatment of the most serious psychic disorders, and also to integrate some of the special requirements of public and private psychiatric health care. Here we briefly describe the main elements of our training programme as well as some of our training experiences. It is important to emphasize that the training was not meant to replace psychoanalytic training. It is a question of a separate multi-professional programme based on psychoanalytic premises but with particular objectives of its own. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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