More than one way home - Student raters' impressions of interventions and group processes in mentalisation based group psychotherapy and group analytic psychotherapy.

In a study comparing mentalisation-based group therapy (MBT-G) and group analytic psychotherapy (GAP) in a day clinic, both group psychotherapy forms were found to be highly effective. But how did specific interventions and processes in both groups differ? The present article describes student raters impressions. Twelve psychology students listened to 100 audio recordings of 90 minutes group psychotherapy sessions of GAP and MBT-G.

Mentalization-Based Treatment in Groups for Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder.

In order to successfully interact with others in social encounters, we have to be attentive to their mental states. This means, we have to implicitly and explicitly interpret our own actions as well as the actions of others as meaningful on the basis of the ascription of intentional mental states. However, this ability, often referred to as mentalizing, seems to be impaired in autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

[A forgotten chapter in the prehistory of psychoanalysis in Cologne. The emigration of Hans Erich Haas (1896-1990)].

Haas was the first medical doctor from the Rhineland who was trained at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute and established himself as a "specialist for psychoanalysis" in Cologne. For nearly ten years he had a flourishing practice there with a particular interest in the treatment of schizophrenia. He was Jewish and in 1936 he emigrated to England where he was the first and for a long time only psychoanalyst in Birmingham.

Magical ideation -- defense mechanism or neuropathology? A study with multiple sclerosis patients.

Background: The major psychological stress factor in multiple sclerosis (MS) is loss of control of life. In MS patients with impaired cognition, magical ideation might be a characteristic way of thinking. Proof for this may be the high frequency of alternative treatments used by individuals with MS.

Looking back on back pain: trial and error of diagnoses in the 20th century.

Context: The societal costs of low back pain and associated disability are immense. However, very little is known about the etiology of low back pain. Lumbar disc disease was discovered in the last century and became the predominant etiology for back pain.

Dissociative and associated psychopathological symptoms in patients with epilepsy, pseudoseizures, and both seizure forms.

Purpose: A controversy currently exists regarding the significance of dissociation and conversion in the pathogenesis of pseudoepileptic seizures. After the abolition of the term "hysterical neurosis" from the current diagnostic systems, these seizures were diagnosed as either Dissociative Disorders (ICD-10) or in the DSM IV as Somatoform disorder, most often of conversion type. Recent studies of patients with Dissociative Disorders found that most patients also had conversion symptoms.