The third Ulm conference,  “Psychoanalytic Process Research Strategies III,” which was held on June 4, 5, and 6, 2009, was devoted to the evaluation of long-term psychoanalytic/psychodynamic therapies in the times of evidence-based medicine. Long-term treatments are hard to study in the frame of RCTs; patients and therapists  are too often not motivated to accept the tight frames of such studies. So how to generate evidence of “what works for whom“ has been a crucial matter in many countries. Does it make sense to maintain the distinction of efficacy and effectiveness for long-term treatments as well?  Is it possible to perform a randomized-controlled trial comparing high and low frequency psychoanalytic treatment. Such questions formed the core of the conference and the experiences of European researcher have provided the state of the art on these issues.

The complete set of 7 DVDs of the conference: $59.95 and $15 shipping and handling. 

For a detailed description of each disc, click here:

 Videos from the Ulm Conference:  Psychoanalytic Process Research Strategies III—June 4–6, 2009 (Complete Sets)

DVD 1: Welcome addess from the host Prof. H. Kaechele also reading the welcome  address from the German Medical Association; from the president of  German Society for Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis, Psychosomatics and  Depth-Psychology Dr. K. Muench. G. Roth (Bremen): Do we need biological measures for evaluating long-term treatments. A. Buchheim (Innsbruck), S. Taubner (Kassel), D. Wiswede (Ulm) & H. Kaechele (Ulm): Neural correlates of attachment patterns in depressed patients: First findings of the HANSE-Neuro-Psychoanalysis Study. J. Lehtonen (Helsinki): Molecular findings on serotonin transporter levels in relation to one-year psychodynamic psychotherapy of drug-naive patients with depression using the SPET brain imaging method.

DVD 2: Welcome address from Prof. R. Richter (president of the German Chamber for Psychological Psychotherapists) and from G. Schlessinger-Kipp (vice-president of the German Psychoanalytic Association). P. Fonagy (London): Mentalisation as common factor in the pschotherapeutic process. F. Leichsenring (Giessen) &
S. Rabung (Hamburg): The effectiveness of long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy.

DVD 3:  T. Grande, W.Keller, Th. Jakobsen & G. Rudolf (Heidelberg-Berlin): Precnditions and effects of structural change in the Heidelberg-Berlin study of psychoanalytic long-term psychotherapy. R. Sandell (Stockholm): An individual difference perspective on treatment outcome.

DVD 4:  P. Luyten (Louvain): Different folks need different strokes: An interpersonal-psychodynamic approach to the treatment of patients with personality disorders.
B. Strauss (Jena):Do interpersonal and attachment characteristics tell us something about desirable treatment length?

DVD 5:  Th. Jakobsen (Basel): What happens when the symptoms don’t change?
C. Berghout (Amsterdam): A study of the effects of long-term psychoanalytic
 psychotherapy/psychoanalysis.

DVD 6:  M. Leuzinger-Bohleber and colleagues (Frankfurt): Psychoanalytic and cognitive-behavioral treatments: First data on the LARC depression study. I. Harpaz-Rotem (New Haven): Pathway to therapeutc change: change in self-representation in long-term pschodynamic treatment of adolescents and young adults.

DVD 7:  R. Krause (Saarbruecken): The German system for the evaluation of public payment of psychotherapeutic treatments. R. Richter (Berlin): Psycho-politics- comments from the president of the German Chamber of Psychological Psychotherapists H. Kaechele (Ulm): Recommendations for future psychoanalytic treatment research.

The Israeli smash TV Series Be’TIPUL is the original source and basis of the American HBO series In Treatment.  Available through a special arrangement with the Israeli writer-producer, these DVD boxed sets feature English subtitles.
Many who have seen both versions have agreed that the acting and quality of the original, starring Assi Dayan, far surpass its American counterpart.

Season 1 (the complete first season)
9 Discs, 9 weeks: 5 half-hour episodes per disc (available only in PAL “European” format*).

 
Season 2 (Complete second season + Bonus Material)
Nine Discs include 7 weeks of 5 half-hour episodes discs 1-7, PLUS A bonus disc of deleted scenes, and & A special 40-minute music CD featuring 15 separate tracks from the score by Avi Beleli (available only in NTSC American format*).

*Both video formats will play on computers, and on most recent American DVD players. Inexpensive PAL-capable DVD players are available commercially online and in stores; free computer video software can be searched for & downloaded online as needed. English subtitles play automatically on Season 1 discs but are selected from the opening-screen menu for Season 2 DVDs.

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