Dynamic Psychotherapies

Recommended Prerequisites

Students with no training in dynamic psychopathology should sign up for either the Child Psychopathology or the Special Subjects on Adult Psychopathology curricular unit.

Teaching Methods

This course will use an explanatory teaching approach (used in theory classes), active teaching-learning methods (used in practical classes) and tutorial follow-up. The active teaching-learning methods include case studies related to dynamic psychotherapeutic processes, the study of teaching videos and the use of role-playing as a method for skills development in dynamic psychotherapeutic settings.

Learning Outcomes

- To develop knowledge related to dynamic psychopathology as the main comprehensive tool for dynamic psychotherapeutic work;

- To develop knowledge related to different dynamic psychotherapeutic models

Competencies

- Mastery of the dynamic diagnostics related to work and dynamic psychotherapeutic assessment;

- Knowing how to apply the theoretical knowledge and technical competencies related to different dynamic psychotherapeutic models, including:

- Insight psychotherapies

- Support dynamic oriented psychotherapies

- Brief dynamic psychotherapies;

- Psychodynamic approaches in specific situations: with anxiety, phobic, depressed, borderline, drug addiction and psychosomatic disorders and with hospitalised patients

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Psychopathology and dynamic assessment

2. Support and insight-oriented psychotherapies

2.1. Strategies and tactics of therapeutic processes

2.2. Psychotherapy indications and patient assessment

2.3. Beginning the psychotherapy  process

2.4. The therapeutic process: role of the patient and therapist

2.5. Technical issues

2.6. "Closing" and evaluating the psychotherapeutic process

3. Brief dynamic Psychotherapies

3.1. Psychoanalysis and brief psychotherapies

3.2. Characterisation of brief psychotherapies: technical issues

3.3. The Bellak and Small, Balint and Malan, Sifneos and H. Levenson models;

4. Psychodynamic approaches in specific situations: 

4.1 With anxiety and phobic patients

4.2 With depressed patients

4.3 With borderline patients

4.4 With drug addicted patients

4.5 With psychosomatic and hospitalised patients

Head Lecturer(s)

Rui Alexandre Paquete Paixão

Assessment Methods

Final assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Periodical assessment
Two type C tests: 50.0%
One type A test: 50.0%

Bibliography

Abbass, A. A., Hancock, J. T., Henderson, J., & Kisely, S. (2006). Short-term psychodynamic psychotherapies for common mental disorders. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Issue 4, Article No. CD004687.

Blatt, S., & Auerbach, J. (2003). Psychodynamic measures of therapeutic change. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 23, 268 –307.

Eizirik, C.; Aguiar; R.; Schestatsky, S. et al. (Eds.) (2005). Psicoterapia de orientação analítica: fundamentos teóricos e clínicos. Porto Alegre: Artmed

Gabbard, G. O. (2004). Long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy: A basic text. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing

Gilliéron, E. (2004). Manual de Psicoterapias Breves. Lisboa: Climepsi Eds.

Levensen, H. (2006). Time-limited dynamic Psychotherapy: formulation and intervention. Washington, DC: A.P.A.

Margalho, R.; Paixão, R.; Pereira, M. (2010). Relação Terapêutica e Adesão em Doentes Portadores da Infecção pelo vírus da Imunodeficiência Humana (VIH), Psicologia, Saúde & Doenças, 11 (1), 71-81