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How Treating Psychoanalysts Respond To Psychotherapy Research Constraints

Cornell University Medical College, and Faculty, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Fnb80{at}aol.com

Barbara L. Milrod

Cornell University Medical College, and Faculty, New York Psychoanalytic Institute

Marie Rudden

Cornell University Medical College, and Faculty, New York Psychoanalytic Institute

Theodore Shapiro

Cornell University Medical College, and Faculty, New York Psychoanalytic Institute

Jean Roiphe

Cornell University Medical College, and Faculty, New York Psychoanalytic Institute

Meriamne Singer

Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Faculty, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research

Andrew Aronson

Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Faculty, New York Psychoanalytic Institute

The psychoanalytic community increasingly recognizes the importance of research on psychoanalytic treatments, yet a significant number of psychoanalysts continue to believe that research is either irrelevant to psychoanalysis or impossible to accomplish. Psychoanalysts who accept the value of research express concern that intrusions required by research protocols create significant distortions in the psychoanalytic process. The authors, all psychoanalysts, are studying the outcome of a brief (twenty-four-session) psychodynamic treatment of panic disorder. They report their experiences and struggles with the intrusions of videotaping, working with a treatment manual, and time-limited treatment. This research process required them to question old beliefs and to confront feelings of disloyalty toward their analytic training and identity, particularly with regard to keeping a "clean field" and routinely performing long-term analysis of character. The therapists' psychoanalytic knowledge, however, emerged as crucial for them in managing specific research constraints. Despite concerns about providing inadequate treatment, therapists were found to engage patients with psychoanalytic tools and focus in vibrant and productive therapies that led to significant improvements in panic symptoms and associated quality of life. The authors suggest that psychoanalysts have been overestimating the potential damage of research constraints on psychoanalytic process and outcome.

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