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Commentary: The Coming of Age of Psychoanalytic Treatment Research

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There was a time when psychoanalytic clinicians, perhaps appropriately, could neglect findings of psychoanalytic treatment research. The chapters in this section clearly attest to the fact that those days are long gone. Indeed, as is demonstrated by each of these chapters, psychoanalytic treatment research not only may inform clinical practice, but also has the potential to change psychoanalytic practice. In fact, there is no point in denying that psychoanalytic practice has already changed under the influence of research findings, both explicitly and implicitly, and will continue to be changed by research.

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Patrick Luyten

  2. Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, London, UK

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  1. Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Parkman St., Boston, 02114, Massachusetts, USA

    Raymond A. Levy

  2. Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Morrimac Street 101, Boston, 02114, Massachusetts, USA

    J. Stuart Ablon

  3. and Psychoanalysis, International Psychoanalytic University, Department of Clinical Psychology, Stromstr. 3, Berlin, 10555, Germany

    Horst Kächele

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Luyten, P. (2012). Commentary: The Coming of Age of Psychoanalytic Treatment Research. In: Levy, R., Ablon, J., Kächele, H. (eds) Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Research. Current Clinical Psychiatry. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-792-1_20

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