Various manifestations of anorexia nervosa based on the treatment method used at the Developmental Age Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Ward

The proposed programmes of eating disorders treatment are extremely diverse and to a great extent depend on the approach and ways of understanding predominant in a given medical centre of the mechanisms underlying the di...

The origins of the psychotherapy stream in educational conditions — the author’s own reflections

The author recaptures the 20-year period before the constitution of the Krakowski Ośrodek Terapii. This period is connected with the start of the psychotherapeutic idea and the psychotherapeutic oriented psychological he...

Ciało, które znaczy i naznacza. Analiza fenomenologiczna doświadczania ciała przez osoby chorujące na anoreksję

Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy as a Method of Treatment for Patients with Somatization

The purpose of this article is to present intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) as a type of therapy considered particularly useful when treating patients with somatization disorders. After a short presentat...

Is it possible for psychotherapy to change the brain?

The presumption that psychotherapy leads to changes in the mind and behaviour is based on another one: on the separateness of the mind and body. Since at least, the publication of Popper and Eccles The Self and Its Brain...