Psychoanalytic Therapy As Health Care
Effectiveness and Economics in the 21st Century
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9780881632026,
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Analytic Pr,
1999
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Publisher Notes
What are the prospects for psycho-analysis in an era of managed health care, preoccupied as it is with cost effectiveness and the notion of "medical necessity"? And what are the opportunities and dangers for psychoanalytic therapies in the emerging health-care delivery systems of the next century? In Psychoanalytic Therapy as Health Care, a timely and trenchant consideration of the clash of values between managed care and psychoanalysis, contributors elaborate a thoughtful defense of the therapeutic necessity and social importance of contemporary psychoanalytic and psychodynamic approaches in the provision of mental health care. Collectively, the contributors to Psychoanalytic Therapy as Health Care convincingly refute the claim that psychoanalytically informed therapy is an esoteric treatment suited only to the "worried well." Drawing on a wide range of clinical and empirical evidence, they forcefully argue that contemporary psychoanalytic approaches are applicable to seriously distressed persons in a variety of treatment contexts. Failure to include such longterm therapies within health care delivery systems, they conclude, will deprive many patients of help they need -- and help from which they can benefit in enduring ways that far transcend the limited treatment goals of managed care. Psychodynamic clinicians owe a debt of gratitude to Harriet Kaley and her coeditors for this invigorating defense of insight and meaningful personality change in the face of a system increasingly content with criteria of serviceability, baseline functionality, and other lesser gods.
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