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Study Course Description

Clinical Psychopathology and Understanding its Dynamics I

Main Study Course Information

Course Code

RPH_037

Branch of Science

Anatomy; Clinical medicine

ECTS

7.00

Target Audience

Medicine

LQF

Level 8

Study Course Implementer

Course Supervisor

Artūrs Utināns

Residency Speciality

Speciality

Psychotherapist

Supervisor of Medical Speciality

Artūrs Utināns

Contacts

About Study Course

Objective

To teach theory and practical skills in clinical psychopathology, necessary for understanding symptoms of mental and psychosomatic disorders and syndrome etiopathogenesis. 1. To teach to diagnose emotional, cognitive, behavioural and psychosomatic disorders with its origin greatly determined by the development of personality and behavioural disorders. 2. Provide knowledge and develop skills for examining patients, diagnostics and understanding of emotional conflicts, focussing, manifestations in doctor-patient relations.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

1.Knowledge on psychopathological symptoms and syndromes.

Skills

1.Diagnosis and differential diagnosis of psychopathological symptoms and syndromes.

Competences

1.Example-based knowledge, skills and attitude essential for working at a hospital and for research, raising public awareness via media; understanding of a team-work (work in groups) and its functions, psycho-dynamics, crisis situations and their solution; as well as the ability to manage the work of a multi-disciplinary team and be part of such team, supervise doctors and medical staff.

Assessment

Individual work

Title	% from total grade	Grade
1. Individual work	-	-
Diagnostics and differential diagnosis of patient's mental state – 4 patients per week.

Examination

Title	% from total grade	Grade
1. Examination	-	-
Resident expresses his/her knowledge and clinical/psychodynamic thinking.
2. Examination	-	-
Knowledge and skills to formulate psycho-dynamic diagnosis. Analysis of clinical cases.

Study Course Theme Plan

FULL-TIME

Part 1

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Auditorium

Topics

Interviewing patients, peculiarities of examination and evaluation of psychodynamic psychiatry and psychotherapy; role of anxiety in psychopathology, mental safeguard mechanism and their significance; concept of neurotic conflict in psychopathology; theories of affects, role of emotions, somatization as a mental safeguard mechanism; somatic and somatoform disorders in the case of mental disorders; psycho-emotional trauma and the consequent psychopathology; the concept of crisis.

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Auditorium

Topics

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Auditorium

Topics

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Auditorium

Topics

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Auditorium

Topics

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Auditorium

Topics

Total ECTS (Creditpoints):

7.00

Number of Residency Seminars:

Length (weeks):

Final Examination:

Residency exam (Theory and practice)

Bibliography

Required Reading

Benjamin B. Wolman, George Stricker. Depressive Disorders. Facts, Theories, and Treatment. e-Book, 2014 International Psychotherapy Institute.

Myer Mendelson. Psychoanalytic Views on Depression. e-Book 2015 International Psychotherapy Institute.

Nancy McWilliams. Psychoanalytic case formulation. The Guilford Press, 1999.

Psychoanalytic Diagnosis. Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process. Nancy McWilliams.1994.

Handbook of psychotherapy case formulation / edited by Tracy D. Eells. 2nd ed. 2007 The Guilford Press.

Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual. PDM Task Force, 2006.

Robert Plutchik. Emotions in The Practice of Psychotherapy. American Psychological Association, 2000.

Additional Reading

Jerold R. Gold. Levels of Depression. e-Book 2015 International Psychotherapy Institute.

Julies R. Bemporad. Psychoanalytic Therapy of Depression. e-Book 2015 International Psychotherapy Institute.

Benjamin B. Wolma, George Stricker. Anxiety and Related Disorders. A Handbook. e-Book 2015 International Psychotherapy Institute.

Affect imagery consciousness : the complete edition / by Silvan S. Tomkins. 2008, Springer Publishing Company, LLC.

Jay R. Greenberg and Stephen A. Mitchell. Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory. Harvard University Press, 1983.

Glen O. Gabbard. Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice. 4th Edition 2005.

Contemporary Controversies in Psychoanalytic Theory, Techniques, and their Applications. Otto Kernberg. Yale University press, 2004.

Handbook of emotions / edited by Michael Lewis, Jeannette M. Haviland-Jones. 2008, The Guilford Press.

Human emotions / Carroll E Izard. 1977 Springer Science+Business Media New York.