Emotions and Symptom Change in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Longitudinal Study

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dc.contributor.authorCavdar, Alev
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T20:49:18Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T20:49:18Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.departmentİstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractThe aim of this study is to study the level, range, and trend of experiencing certain emotions in open-ended psychodynamic psychotherapy, and their association with symptomatic improvement. For this aim, pre- and post-therapy symptoms were assessed for 54 clients and 12 intern therapists and emotion ratings were collected for 899 sessions. Emotions with the highest averages were happiness, sadness, relief, and surprise; whereas emotions with the lowest averages were contempt, disgust, fear, and envy. Linear Mixed Modeling revealed that higher ranges of clients' guilt and lower levels of therapists' anger predicted symptom improvement. It was discussed that sadness and guilt of the client might point to a capacity to grieve and to take responsibility; and anger of the therapist might have instigated indifference and rupture. Emotion trends were studied using Multi-level Modeling, and linear trends were observed for clients' surprise, and therapists' happiness and relief. This finding was interpreted in relation to the type of termination. The associations between clients' and therapists' emotion trends were analyzed by Multi-Level Vector Autoregression; and a strong association between the contemporaneous happiness and sadness of the client and the therapist was found. This state of laugh together cry together was considered as mutual attunement. Results were supportive of emotion literature and psychodynamic literature as well as promising in terms of the longitudinal study of the process experience of the client and the therapist as a dyad.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.31828/tpd1300443320191125m000044
dc.identifier.endpage43en_US
dc.identifier.issn1300-4433
dc.identifier.issue90en_US
dc.identifier.startpage18en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.31828/tpd1300443320191125m000044
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/8158
dc.identifier.volume37en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001141175000002en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ4en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.language.isotren_US
dc.publisherTurkish Psychologists Assocen_US
dc.relation.ispartofTurk Psikoloji Dergisien_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectPsychodynamic Psychotherapyen_US
dc.subjectClient-Therapist Dyaden_US
dc.subjectEmotionen_US
dc.subjectPsychotherapy Outcomeen_US
dc.subjectSymptomatic Reliefen_US
dc.titleEmotions and Symptom Change in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Longitudinal Study
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