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Talking Cure and Related Forms of Psychotherapies in Psychodynamic Psychiatry

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The talking cure as conceived by Freud has developed from its original concepts to various other formats applied within many psychotherapeutic settings.

This chapter, after addressing the basic psychoanalytic concepts as proposed by its founder, addresses different modifications and adaptations that this model underwent being faced with its limitations. The author describes aspects of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, individual psychoanalytic psychodrama, and psychoanalytically informed milieu-therapy.

Next, he also discusses issues of effectiveness and the scientific foundations, issues that have been questioned in the past and have put application of psychoanalytically inspired therapies under pressure. Recent neuroscientific research seems to offer some evidence to foster Freud’s old dream to find neuroscientific evidence for psychoanalytic concepts.

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  1. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Western Brittany and Brest University Hospital, Brest, France

    Michel Botbol

  2. Paris Society of Psychanalysis (SPP), Paris, France

    Michel Botbol

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    Marc H.M. Hermans

  2. National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Tan Chay-Hoon

  3. Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, USA

    Edmond Pi

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Botbol, M. (2019). Talking Cure and Related Forms of Psychotherapies in Psychodynamic Psychiatry. In: Hermans, M., Chay-Hoon, T., Pi, E. (eds) Education about Mental Health and Illness. Mental Health and Illness Worldwide. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2350-7_28

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