Time for change : tracking transformations in psychoanalyses--the three-level model / edited by Marina Altmann de Litvan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Altmann de Litvan, Marina.

Series:

Psychoanalytic ideas and applications series.

Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health promotion.

Mental health promotion.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How can we, analysts, evaluate whether analysis is generating transformations in our patients? The IPA Project Committee on Clinical Observation and Testing offers a tool: The Three-Level Model for Observing Patient Transformations (3-LM); a guide for refining, conceptualizing, and systematizing clinical observations about patient transformations. It seeks to enhance clinical observations, making them more accurate and more useful for theory testing and theory building through a systematic analysis of clinical material.Time for Change: Tracking Transformations in Psychoanalysis - The Three-Level Model focuses on the question of how to observe changes in psychoanalysis. It presents the model and the outcome of having worked with the 3-LM tool, which has been applied to adult patients, adolescents and children, as well as in analytic training. The 3-LM goes from clinic to theory, from implicit to explicit theory, from unquestioned hypotheses to reviewed hypotheses enriched by the work on the clinical material after its discussion by several participants with different perspectives. Firstly, the 3-LM seeks to make a careful characterization of the patient and his/her problems and capacities when (s)he enters analysis. Then, it observes later moments of his/her treatment and the positive or negative changes that have occurred during treatment, what has not changed, the relevance of changes, and how changes are explained. Reports are elaborated in each group which state the convergences and divergences that emerged during the group discussion. Approximately 700 analysts from different parts of the world have participated in these clinical observation groups. They have found that this tool has proved useful and friendly for analysts, for it rescues and re-values the richness of the clinical experience between analyst and patient. It also allows us

analysts to exercise our abilities and clinical sharpness as well as acquiring precision when communicating our work. It provides us with one way to monitor our work in a more subtle and meticulous way, offering a second look at the material for the benefit of both analyst and patient.

Contents:

part, I Introducing the Three-Level Model for Observing Patient Transformations

chapter One The three-level model (3-LM) for observing patient transformations / Ricardo Bernardi

chapter Two Leticia: the emergence of questions about herself / Silvana Hernández Romillo

chapter Three Irina: an adolescent

The usefulness of the three-level model for observing patient transformations / Marina Altmann de Litvan

part, II Observing and Working with the 3-LM

chapter Four Tracking patient transformations: the function of observation in psychoanalysis / Virginia Ungar

chapter Five Depression and trauma: the psychoanalysis of a patient suffering from chronic depression

An exemplary case study based on the three levels of clinical observation / Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber

chapter Six Close to observation: some reflections on the value of the three-level-model for studying change / Siri Erika Gullestad

chapter Seven Working with the third level of the three-level model: the incidence of our theoretical model on our clinical thinking* / Adela Leibovich de Duarte

part, III A Patient, A Concept, and A Case

chapter Eight A traumatised patient in analysis: observing patients’ transformations / Margaret Ann Fitzpatrick-Hanly

part, IV The 3-LM: A Case, Report, and Discussion

chapter Nine Transformations in Paula with “no history” / Michael Šebek

chapter Ten A report on Paula with “no history” / Robert S. White

chapter Eleven Discussion of Paula with “no history” / Judy Kantrowitz

part, V Clinical Concepts

chapter Twelve Some reflections on the three-level model: organising psychoanalytic knowledge through clinical observations and generalisations / Marvin Hurvich

chapter Thirteen The assessment of changes: diagnostic aspects / Ricardo Bernardi

part, VI An Application of the 3-LM at the End of Analytic Training

chapter Fourteen The three-level model in psychoanalytic training / Beatriz de León de Bernardi Marina Altmann de Litvan

chapter Fifteen The use of the 3-LM to teach candidates to observe transformations in clinical cases / Liliana Fudin de Winograd Adela Leibovich de Duarte

part, VII Further Developments of the 3-LM in Child Analysis

chapter Sixteen Three-level model for observing child patient transformations / Marina Altmann de Litvan Delfina Miller Ricardo Bernardi.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 2, 2014).

ISBN:

0-429-92303-1

0-367-32927-1

0-429-90880-6

0-429-48403-8

1-78241-308-1

9780429484032

OCLC:

889674994