Hakomi as a legitimate & scientifically valid form of Body-Psychotherapy The European Association for Body-Psychotherapy (EABP) has already made a submission about the scientific validity of Body-Psychotherapy as a mainstream branch of psychotherapy. This has been accepted by the EAP and thus, according to it's criteria, Body-Psychotherapy is scientifically validated. Hakomi is a modality withi...

Neuroscience has developed a number of useful methods for analyzing cognitive function. As a result, our understanding of normal and abnormal mental function has grown substantially. These insights have improved the ability to intervene pharmacotherapeuti-cally in the treatment of patients with mental illness. Can this new understanding also inform and improve psychotherapeutic interventions? P...

Interpersonal and social rhythm therapy is an individual psychotherapy designed specifically for the treatment for bipolar disorder. Interpersonal and social rhythm therapy grew from a chronobiological model of bipolar disorder postulating that individuals with bipolar disorder have a genetic predisposition to circadian rhythm and sleep-wake cycle abnormalities that may be responsible, in part,...

The authors present a new transcript-based method for the assessment of therapeutic alliance ruptures and resolutions in psychotherapy-the Collaborative Interaction Scale (CIS)-and discuss the structure and theoretical background of the scale and the rating procedure. To assess interrater reliability, three raters independently evaluated 32 psychotherapy sessions (2,984 patient utterances and 2...

The Relational Psychotherapy Mothers' Group (RPMG), a developmentally informed, supportive psychotherapy designed to serve heroin-addicted mothers with children up to 16 years of age, aims at addressing psychosocial vulnerabilities, and facilitating optimal parenting, among at-risk mothers. We present preliminary evidence on the efficacy of RPMG as an "add on" treatment in comparison with stand...

BACKGROUND Depression is a condition with various modes of treatment, including pharmacotherapy, psychotherapy, and some combination of each. The role of psychotherapy in the treatment of depression relative to the role of pharmacotherapy is not well understood, and guidelines for psychotherapy in the primary care setting differ from guidelines for specialty care. There is little evidence conce...

In this paper I review the use of the concept of transference in psychotherapy, and explore its limitations. I go on to argue that the concept is no longer useful to us in the practice of contemporary psychotherapy. Along the way I will make reference to some of the potential pitfalls of a psychotherapy without it, pitfalls into which I believe practitioners of psychotherapy and counselling fre...

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