Operationalized psychodynamic diagnostics, 2d ed

SciTech Book News, June, 2008

Operationalized psychodynamic diagnostics, 2d ed.

Ed. by OPD Task Force.

Hogrefe & Huber Publishers

2008

407 pages

$74.00

Hardcover

RC469

Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis (OPD) is a form of multiaxial diagnostic and classification system based on psychodynamic/depth psychology principles, analogous to those based on other principles such as DSM-IV and ICD-10. The OPD is based on five axes: experience of illness and prerequisites for treatment, interpersonal relations, conflict, personality structure, and mental and psychosomatic disorders. The second edition of this practical text features a set of tools and procedures for treatment planning and for measuring change with treatment. It now facilitates determining the appropriate, central focus indicated as part of an appropriate treatment strategy, clearly relating the diagnostic assessment with the corresponding optimal treatment approach. For psychodynamically and depth psychology-oriented therapists and psychiatrists, physicians interested in psychosomatics, and clinical psychologists. No subject index.

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