THE CASE OF MARIA: A PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACHFrom a psychoanalytic perspective, Maria appears to be experiencing anxiety and depression as a result of unconscious conflicts originating from early childhood experiences. And while Maria is aware of her depressive symptoms and is able to articulate her history and the current circumstances that are... (Counseling and Psychotherapy)Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer and Approaches to Treat ItDespite the initial effectiveness of ADT in the vast majority of patients, the duration of response is highly variable, and disease progression on ADT is nearly universal. Though ADT markedly lowers circulating androgen levels, it does not reduce the Fig. 1 Metabolic toxicities associated with androgen... (Metabolism of Human Diseases)The psychoanalytical approach to disabilitySimone Korff Sausse Until recently, disabled people had seemed to have eluded psychoanalytical investigation and treatment, with very few psychoanalysts taking an interest in them. Why was this? The first reason is the general tendency to misunderstand the psychic life of subjects affected by a disability.... (The Clinic of Disability: Psychoanalytical Approaches)A Psychoanalytic Approach to MarketingThe basis of modern media effectiveness is a language within a language— one that communicates to each of us at a level beneath our conscious awareness, one that reaches into the uncharted mechanism of the human unconscious. This is a language based upon the human ability to subliminally... (Marketing and American Consumer Culture: A Cultural Studies Analysis)Cognitive and Behavioral Approaches for Treating Substance Use Disorders Among Behavioral Medicine PatientsAllison K. Labbe, Julie Yeterian, Julianne G. Wilner, and John F. Kelly Substance use and substance use disorders (SUD), including alcohol, are a serious public health concern. For example, from 2010 to 2012 the rate of heroin overdose doubled [1], and from 1999 to 2010 the overdose rate... (The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Behavioral Medicine: A Clinician Guide to Evidence-based Psychosocial Interventions for Individuals with Medical Illness)Cognitive Behavioral Approaches for Treating Substance Use DisordersFrom the standpoint of social-cognitive learning theory [81], onset and maintenance of SUD is related to observing social modeling of substance use, receiving social encouragement and support for drug use, and possessing positive beliefs about drugs’ effects (also known as “expectancies”). In addition,... (The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Behavioral Medicine: A Clinician Guide to Evidence-based Psychosocial Interventions for Individuals with Medical Illness)A psychoanalytic approach to data collection and analysisGerard Moore Introduction This chapter outlines the psychoanalytically informed methods used to collect and analyse data in a study of staff and patient relationships in a public mental health service. In relationships we experience strong and powerful affects that influence likes, dislikes and... (Designing and Conducting Research in Social Science, Health and Social Care)The game-based approach and the instrumental genesisThe technological approach only makes sense if disseminated among the coaches’ and researchers' community by sharing experiences, results and reflexions. The use of games as technology needs to be tested in different contexts as part of an instrumental genesis (Rabar-del, 1995; Eloi & Uhlrich, 2011).... (Perspectives on Game-Based Coaching)A psychoanalytic approach to paraphilic disorders, perversions and other problematic sexual behaviours10 Jessica Yakeley Since Freud’s seminal work Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (Freud, 1905), in which he explored the nature and infantile roots of what he termed ‘perversion, psychoanalytic writers have written extensively about unusual sexual fantasies, and practices that... (Assessing and Managing Problematic Sexual Interests: A Practitioner’s Guide)Psychometric Approaches to Faked PsychosisThe concepts of assessment in forensic mental health matters have evolved slowly over the past several decades. These concepts are now formalized under the heading of forensic mental health assessment (Heilbrun, Grisso, Goldstein, & Laduke, 2012). Many of the forensic mental health assessment principles... (Detecting Malingering and Deception: Forensic Distortion Analysis (FDA-5)) |