The term "evidence-based medicine" is currently used internationally in clinical practi... more The term "evidence-based medicine" is currently used internationally in clinical practice and teaching. The evidence-based psychotherapy, is a procedure that refi nes and improves clinical practice by making systematic research strategies of information. In this paper a bibliometric revision of different therapeutic approaches aimed at treating various diseases was performed. Articles in English were reviewed including abstracts. Variables considered were type of psychotherapy, condition to which it was addressed, type of sample and results. Most of the articles reviewed were about comparative analysis of two different types of psychotherapy, and drug therapy. In some cases only positive results were evident regarding psychoanalytic psychotherapy because of the small number of papers. These kind of reviews are partial so the applicability of concepts and treatments should be carefully evaluated since these are derived from clinical practice related to empirical research wh...
Summary There are very few studies on the changes in patients with borderline personality disorde... more Summary There are very few studies on the changes in patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) treated with psychodynamic psychotherapy, around the world, and as far as we know, this is the first report in Mexico on this subject. The main features of this disorder appear at 18 years of age (75% females; 25% males) and are frequent crises characterized by impulsivity (physical figths, substance abuse, suicide or selfmutilating behavior), affective instability (episodes of depression, anxiety and anger) and alterations in identity (sudden changes in values, vocational or laboral goals) that consume a lot of health resources and contribute to many failures in academic and work performance. Its treatment always needs some form of individual or group psychotherapy, with medication at times. In most of the clinical settings this disorder is considered as untractable or to take years to produce beneficial modifications. According to the epidemiological studies of several countrie...
This paper was published prior to the IPA Congress in Mexico City, aimed to describe shortly the ... more This paper was published prior to the IPA Congress in Mexico City, aimed to describe shortly the history, development and status of Psychoanalytic practice.
The author presents clinical material from a 36-year-old female patient with depressive and hyste... more The author presents clinical material from a 36-year-old female patient with depressive and hysterical traits, whose personal history shows her psychosexual development to be at a pregenital level. It is intended to demonstrate the type of clinical interpretations that enabled a change towards an oedipal transference in order to reach a psychoanalytic approach. Some of the psychoanalytic interpretations during the treatment process are described, related to several behavioural changes and a discrete structural change.
This short paper, placed in the symposium on child psychiatry within the Congress, is concerned w... more This short paper, placed in the symposium on child psychiatry within the Congress, is concerned with the psychoanalytic points of view which support the theory of treatment of children with autistic phenomena. After a brief description of the clinical of an autistic three-year boy with mutism, a theoretical point of view is elaborated through a concise revision of the contributions of various classical authors; focusing mainly on M. Mahler and the symbiotic and separation-individuation processes, M. Klein and the schizo-paranoid mechanisms, and finally the technique of treatment based on the transference-countertransference phenomena in the analytic situation.
The objective of the study was to observe the changes in the psychopathology of women with Border... more The objective of the study was to observe the changes in the psychopathology of women with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) after 48 sessions of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) conducted by novel therapists, videotaped and supervised by experts. TFP is a ...
Mexico is influenced by two main factors: one is geographical, being located on the North America... more Mexico is influenced by two main factors: one is geographical, being located on the North American continent; the other is historical, deriving from the Spanish colonization and acculturation. The country shares a border with the United States which is more than 2,000 miles long, ...
The term "evidence-based medicine" is currently used internationally in clinical practi... more The term "evidence-based medicine" is currently used internationally in clinical practice and teaching. The evidence-based psychotherapy, is a procedure that refi nes and improves clinical practice by making systematic research strategies of information. In this paper a bibliometric revision of different therapeutic approaches aimed at treating various diseases was performed. Articles in English were reviewed including abstracts. Variables considered were type of psychotherapy, condition to which it was addressed, type of sample and results. Most of the articles reviewed were about comparative analysis of two different types of psychotherapy, and drug therapy. In some cases only positive results were evident regarding psychoanalytic psychotherapy because of the small number of papers. These kind of reviews are partial so the applicability of concepts and treatments should be carefully evaluated since these are derived from clinical practice related to empirical research wh...
Summary There are very few studies on the changes in patients with borderline personality disorde... more Summary There are very few studies on the changes in patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) treated with psychodynamic psychotherapy, around the world, and as far as we know, this is the first report in Mexico on this subject. The main features of this disorder appear at 18 years of age (75% females; 25% males) and are frequent crises characterized by impulsivity (physical figths, substance abuse, suicide or selfmutilating behavior), affective instability (episodes of depression, anxiety and anger) and alterations in identity (sudden changes in values, vocational or laboral goals) that consume a lot of health resources and contribute to many failures in academic and work performance. Its treatment always needs some form of individual or group psychotherapy, with medication at times. In most of the clinical settings this disorder is considered as untractable or to take years to produce beneficial modifications. According to the epidemiological studies of several countrie...
This paper was published prior to the IPA Congress in Mexico City, aimed to describe shortly the ... more This paper was published prior to the IPA Congress in Mexico City, aimed to describe shortly the history, development and status of Psychoanalytic practice.
The author presents clinical material from a 36-year-old female patient with depressive and hyste... more The author presents clinical material from a 36-year-old female patient with depressive and hysterical traits, whose personal history shows her psychosexual development to be at a pregenital level. It is intended to demonstrate the type of clinical interpretations that enabled a change towards an oedipal transference in order to reach a psychoanalytic approach. Some of the psychoanalytic interpretations during the treatment process are described, related to several behavioural changes and a discrete structural change.
This short paper, placed in the symposium on child psychiatry within the Congress, is concerned w... more This short paper, placed in the symposium on child psychiatry within the Congress, is concerned with the psychoanalytic points of view which support the theory of treatment of children with autistic phenomena. After a brief description of the clinical of an autistic three-year boy with mutism, a theoretical point of view is elaborated through a concise revision of the contributions of various classical authors; focusing mainly on M. Mahler and the symbiotic and separation-individuation processes, M. Klein and the schizo-paranoid mechanisms, and finally the technique of treatment based on the transference-countertransference phenomena in the analytic situation.
The objective of the study was to observe the changes in the psychopathology of women with Border... more The objective of the study was to observe the changes in the psychopathology of women with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) after 48 sessions of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) conducted by novel therapists, videotaped and supervised by experts. TFP is a ...
Mexico is influenced by two main factors: one is geographical, being located on the North America... more Mexico is influenced by two main factors: one is geographical, being located on the North American continent; the other is historical, deriving from the Spanish colonization and acculturation. The country shares a border with the United States which is more than 2,000 miles long, ...
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