a Schoen Klinik Roseneck, Prien am Chiemsee, Germany; b Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; c Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Munich, Munich, Germany; d Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; e Psychotherapy Private Practice, Münster, Germany; f Schoen K...

Seventy detoxified heroin-addicted patients were randomly assigned to one of two groups receiving ketamine psychotherapy (KPT) involving two different doses of ketamine. The patients of the experimental group received existentially oriented psychotherapy in combination with a hallucinogenic ("psychedelic") dose of ketamine (2.0 mg/kg im). The patients of the control group received the same psyc...

Three investigative realms with widely divergent methodologies arrive at uncannily similar conclusions about the vital role of positive affective phenomena in optimal adaptation, resilience, affect regulation, cardiac health, and subjective well-being: research on resilience and human flourishing; Indo-Tibetan practices and the emergent yogic sciences; and the practice of AEDP (Accelerated Expe...

This paper reviews the affective neuroscience dealing with the effects of traumatic events. We give an overview of the normal fear reactions, the pathological fear reaction, and the character of emotional episodic memories. We find that both emotions and emotional memories are a tripartite unit of sensory information, autonomic reaction, and motor impulse (the PRM complex). We propose that emot...

Reports on an ongoing cybernetic study of theory, on how theory-centered psychotherapy turns practices of everyday life into the psychopathologies proposed by psychotherapy. Makes a case for psychotherapy using the ideas of each patient, employing hypnosis as a condition for the practice of psychotherapy. Discusses three of the problems arising out of this cybernetic study of theory: (1) the wo...

All indicators suggest that technology may be an inherent part of psychotherapy delivery in the next decade. This article serves as an introduction to a special issue of Journal of Clinical Psychology: In Session devoted to technology in psychotherapy. Articles in this series feature self-help Internet sites, computer-administered psychotherapy, adjunctive palmtop computer psychotherapy, virtua...

OBJECTIVE There is no published data on how mental health professionals (MHPs) in developing Asian countries view psychotherapy. Since practitioners of psychotherapy may come from both medical and non-medical (e.g. clinical psychology, social work, counselling) backgrounds, differences between the 2 groups may have practical significance. The aims of this study were to examine the views of MHPs...

Objective: The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of Lazarus Multimodal Psychotherapy (MMT) on perceived stress in individuals with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Methods: Through a quasi-experimental design, forty patients in Qazvin city in Iran were selected by convenient sampling and then divided into two groups: experimental and control groups. After group assignme...