TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Denmark
T2 - Development, implementation in the public health service and present status
AU - Rosenbaum, Bent
AU - Alberdi, Francisco
AU - Lindhardt, Anne
AU - Mathiesen, Tove
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The history of psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy in Denmark is briefly described. An important element in developing the psychodynamic thinking in the public mental health service took place in the 1970s where several British psychoanalysts and group analysts helped Danish therapists and analysts starting regular courses in psychoanalytic psychotherapy that were attended by a few hundred psychologists and psychiatrists. The implementation of psychodynamic thinking and practice in the Mental Health System followed over the next two decades, although the Danish welfare system did not economically support patients referred to psychoanalysis, long-term or intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy. At the new millennium, opposition to psychoanalysis and psychodynamic thinking made it difficult to sustain the relative high level of involvement of psychodynamic practice in both mental health institutions and private practice. The reasons for this are suggested as well as comments on the future.
AB - The history of psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy in Denmark is briefly described. An important element in developing the psychodynamic thinking in the public mental health service took place in the 1970s where several British psychoanalysts and group analysts helped Danish therapists and analysts starting regular courses in psychoanalytic psychotherapy that were attended by a few hundred psychologists and psychiatrists. The implementation of psychodynamic thinking and practice in the Mental Health System followed over the next two decades, although the Danish welfare system did not economically support patients referred to psychoanalysis, long-term or intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy. At the new millennium, opposition to psychoanalysis and psychodynamic thinking made it difficult to sustain the relative high level of involvement of psychodynamic practice in both mental health institutions and private practice. The reasons for this are suggested as well as comments on the future.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - psychodynamic psychotherapy
KW - institutes of training
KW - research
KW - future of psychoanalytic paradigm
KW - short-term psychotherapy
U2 - 10.1080/02668734.2021.1930117
DO - 10.1080/02668734.2021.1930117
M3 - Journal article
VL - 35
SP - 108
EP - 123
JO - Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
JF - Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
SN - 0266-8734
IS - 2
ER -