Research Catalog

Title

Psychotherapy and medication : the challenge of integration / Fredric N. Busch and Larry S. Sandberg.

Author

Busch, Fredric N., 1958-

Publication

New York : Analytic Press, c2007.

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Additional Authors

Sandberg, Larry S.

Description

xi, 177 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Over the past two decades, the use of medication combined with psychodynamic psychotherapy or psychoanalysis has shifted from an infrequent occurrence to common practice. Concurrently, attitudes toward medication have changed from viewing this intervention as disruptive or as a last resort to a welcome aid in the analytic process. However, this relatively rapid change has created difficulty in the integration of medication use into the analytic setting. Psychotherapy and Medication provides psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and other mental health professionals with information on how to work with medication theoretically, clinically, and technically in the context of a psychodynamic or psychoanalytic treatment. Areas of discussion include evidence that a change in the use of medication has taken place, an examination of the factors that have led to this shift, as well as a review of the issues and questions about combining treatments. Psychotherapy and Medication also serves as a framework in how to best answer the many questions that have arisen as the willingness of analysts to use medication increases. Such significant questions include: How should analysts introduce patients to medication? What are the clinical advantages of combined treatment? What is the impact of medication discussions and prescribing on the analyst's role and how is this best handled?

Series Statement

Psychoanalytic inquiry book series ; v. 22

Uniform Title

Psychoanalytic inquiry book series v. 22.

Subject

• Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions
• Mental illness > Chemotherapy
• Combined modality therapy
• Psychotherapy
• Combined Modality Therapy > adverse effects
• Transference, Psychology
• Combined Modality Therapy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-168) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Theoretical bases of combined treatment -- Getting started with medication -- The meaning of medication -- Clinical values of combined treatment -- Approaches to treatment: the prescribing therapist -- Split treatment -- Combined treatment for depressive and anxiety disorders -- Complex cases.

ISBN

• 9780881634518 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0881634514 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007001395

OCLC

80019829

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library