PMID- 23935571
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20130812
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 1662-5161 (Print)
IS  - 1662-5161 (Electronic)
IS  - 1662-5161 (Linking)
VI  - 7
DP  - 2013
TI  - Essentials of psychoanalytic process and change: how can we investigate the 
      neural effects of psychodynamic psychotherapy in individualized neuro-imaging?
PG  - 355
LID - 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00355 [doi]
LID - 355
AB  - The paper focuses on the essentials of psychoanalytic process and change and the 
      question of how the neural correlates and mechanisms of psychodynamic 
      psychotherapy can be investigated. The psychoanalytic approach aims at enabling 
      the patient to "remember, repeat, and work through" concerning explicit memory. 
      Moreover, the relationship between analyst and patient establishes a new 
      affective configuration which enables a reconstruction of the implicit memory. If 
      psychic change can be achieved it corresponds to neuronal transformation. 
      Individualized neuro-imaging requires controlling and measuring of variables that 
      must be defined. Two main methodological problems can be distinguished: the 
      design problem addresses the issue of how to account for functionally related 
      variables in an experimentally independent way. The translation problem raises 
      the question of how to bridge the gaps between different levels of the concepts 
      presupposed in individualized neuro-imaging (e.g., the personal level of the 
      therapist and the client, the neural level of the brain). An overview of 
      individualized paradigms, which have been used until now is given, including 
      Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis (OPD-2) and the Maladaptive Interpersonal 
      Patterns Q-Start (MIPQS). The development of a new paradigm that will be used in 
      fMRI experiments, the "Interpersonal Relationship Picture Set" (IRPS), is 
      described. Further perspectives and limitations of this new approach concerning 
      the design and the translation problem are discussed.
FAU - Boeker, Heinz
AU  - Boeker H
AD  - Department for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Centre for 
      Depressions, Anxiety Disorders and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of 
      Psychiatry Zurich Zurich, Switzerland.
FAU - Richter, Andre
AU  - Richter A
FAU - Himmighoffen, Holger
AU  - Himmighoffen H
FAU - Ernst, Jutta
AU  - Ernst J
FAU - Bohleber, Laura
AU  - Bohleber L
FAU - Hofmann, Elena
AU  - Hofmann E
FAU - Vetter, Johannes
AU  - Vetter J
FAU - Northoff, Georg
AU  - Northoff G
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20130802
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Front Hum Neurosci
JT  - Frontiers in human neuroscience
JID - 101477954
PMC - PMC3731532
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Interpersonal Relationship Picture Set (IRPS)
OT  - Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis (OPD-2)
OT  - design problem
OT  - individualized neuro-imaging
OT  - psychoanalytic process
OT  - psychodynamic psychotherapy
OT  - translation problem
EDAT- 2013/08/13 06:00
MHDA- 2013/08/13 06:01
PMCR- 2013/01/01
CRDT- 2013/08/13 06:00
PHST- 2013/05/15 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2013/06/20 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2013/08/13 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/08/13 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2013/08/13 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2013/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00355 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Front Hum Neurosci. 2013 Aug 2;7:355. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00355. eCollection 
      2013.