“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
psychoanalytic psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis resources
what is psychoanalytic Psychotherapy?
A video explaining psychotherapy developed by The School of Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxuZiqY5ypU
A page from the American Psychoanalytic Association explaining psychoanalytic psychotherapy
http://www.apsa.org/content/psychoanalytic-psychotherapy
What is psychoanalysis?
A page with resources from the International Psychoanalytical Association
https://www.ipa.world/IPA/Dev/About_Psychoanalysis/What_is_Psychoanalysis.aspx
A description of the process of psychoanalysis from the Adelaide Institute for Psychoanalysis
https://aipsych.org.au/what-is-psychoanalysis/
Making Sense of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
A booklet developed by the British Psychoanalytic Council
https://www.bpc.org.uk/download/494/Mind-opt.pdf
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Therapy wars: the revenge of Freud
This article explores the differences between shorter term cognitive-behavioural and longer-term psychoanalytic approaches
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jan/07/therapy-wars-revenge-of-freud-cognitive-behavioural-therapy
What I’ve Learned from my Years on the Couch
http://theweek.com/articles/599228/what-ive-learned-from-years-couch
From Donald Winnicott to the Naughty Step
D.W. Winnicott’s broadcasts on the BBC from 1943-1962. Winnicott introduced the concept of ‘good enough’ mothering
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s7v7b
Listening for Clues to Mind’s Mysteries: ‘The Examined Life’ describes Psychoanalysis’s power
A New York Times review of Stephen Grosz’s The Examined Life: How we lose and find ourselves
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/09/books/the-examined-life-by-stephen-grosz.html
The Therapy Relationship in Psychodynamic Therapy versus CBT: A therapy relationship is more than an ‘alliance’
Jonathan Shedler discusses how the therapeutic relationship is a critical factor in psychotherapy
Evidence Base & Empirical Support
Jonathan Shedler - The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
http://jonathanshedler.com/PDFs/Shedler%20(2010)%20Efficacy%20of%20Psychodynamic%20Psychotherapy.pdf
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: What’s the evidence?
https://www.bpc.org.uk/information-support/the-evidence-base/
American Psychological Association Recognition of Psychotherapy Effectiveness
http://www.apa.org/about/policy/resolution-psychotherapy.aspx
Peter Fonagy - The effectiveness of psychodynamic psychotherapies: an update
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26043322
Harvard Mental Health Letter - Merits of Psychodynamic Therapy
https://bgsp.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Harvard-Mental-Health-letter-psychodynamic-therapy.pdf
Australian Societies
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy
Victorian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association of Australasia
Psychoanalysis
Australia Psychoanalytical Society
https://www.psychoanalysis.asn.au
Melbourne Institute for Psychoanalysis