Dynamic Psychopathology and Psychotherapies

Recommended Prerequisites

Non existent.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical and practical teaching using expository and active methodologies and tutorial guidance. Active methodologies include the study of clinical cases (clinical vignettes), videos observation and role-playing exercises for the development of specific competences.

Learning Outcomes

1. Acquire and develop the fundamental theoretical basic knowledge related to the main psychoanalytical dynamic models, namely the Freud, Klein, Bowlby Winnicott and Bion models, considering:

- Fundamental Concepts

- Psychopathological models (comprehensive and explanatory)

- dynamic diagnosis

- Fundamental concepts about dynamic psychotherapies

2. Acquire the basic technical skills related to the clinical practice from a dynamic point of view, taking as reference the Freud and M. Klein models, namely:

- The skills related to dynamic psychotherapeutic settings preparation;

- The basic skills related to dynamic psychotherapeutic relationship (knowing how to be, how to listen, and how to intervene / interpret);

- The strategic and tactical dimensions of psychodynamic processes

- The competencies related to the organizations of clinical reports.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Introduction to the study of dynamic psychopathology and psychotherapy considering the historical bases and the new multiple psychotherapeutic techincs emerging from this framework

2. Fundamental concepts in dynamic psychology; principles of pleasure and reality; anguish; conflict; symptom; unconscious; unconscious phantasy; self defenses; drive forces; Édipo.

3. Dynamic, economic and topographical models in psychoanalysis

4. trauma in psychoanalysis (S. Freud and S. Ferenczy)

5. Concepts of organization and structure (neurosis, psychosis and borderline states)

6. The main contributions of M. Klein, Bowlby, Winnicott and Bion

7. Dynamic psychotherapies and the "technical" concepts of setting foundation, aliance, transference, transference neurosis and countertransference.

8. Insight-Driven Psychotherapies:

8.1 The intrapsychic and the relational dimension of psychotherapeutic processes

8.2 Beginning, evolution and terminus of a psychodynamic therapeutic process

6. Clinical Reports.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Mini Tests: 50.0%
Frequency: 50.0%

Bibliography

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Becker, J., Paixão, R., Silva, S., Quartilho, M., & Custódio, E. (2019). Dynamic Psychotherapy: the therapeutic process in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Behavioral Sciences, 9 (141), 1-10.

Bergeret, J. (2004). Psicologia patológica: Teórica e clínica. Lisboa: Climepsi.

Luyten, P., Mayes, L. C., Fonagy, P., Target, M., & Blatt, S. J. (2015). Handbook of psychodynamic approaches to psychopathology. NY: Guilford Press.

Quinodoz, J. (2007). Ler Freud: Guia de leitura da obra de S. Freud. Brasil: Artmed.

Sherwin-White, S. (2019). Melanie Klein revisited: Pioneer and revolutionary in the psychoanalysis of young children. New York: Routledge.

Spelman, M., & Thomson-Salo, F. (Eds.) (2015). The Winnicott tradition: Lines of development, evolution of theory and practice over the decades. New York: Routledge.