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Patients with Persistent Somatic Symptoms or Functional Somatic Symptoms: An Integrative Psychodynamic Treatment Approach - Patrick Luyton, PhD (Live Webinar)
2024-25 Grand Rounds Series
Patients presenting with persisting somatic symptoms or functional somatic symptoms constitute a very large subset of patients seen in routine healthcare. For instance, around 40% of patients with depression and anxiety also report high levels of functional somatic symptoms and long-term health conditions. Recent theoretical and empirical advances open up important new avenues for the treatment of these patients. In this talk, Dr. Luyton will summarize findings concerning the role of three related biobehavioral systems that play a central role in the development of these symptoms from a psychodynamic perspective (i.e., the attachment system, the mentalizing system, and impairments in epistemic trust), with a focus on the importance of fostering embodied mentalizing. He will also review empirical evidence supporting the efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy with these patients. Finally, he will outline the treatment principles of dynamic interpersonal therapy, an integrative psychodynamic treatment that has been adapted for patients with functional somatic symptoms with varying levels of severity, based on a description of the treatment of a patient with chronic widespread pain. Dr. Luyton will argue that labeling these patients as 'hard-to-reach' of ‘difficult-to-treat’ reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of their embodied mind.
Target Audience
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Learning Objectives
Attendees should be able to identify current evidence-based psychoanalytic treatments.
Attendees should be able to critically assess the empirical evidence for psychoanalytic therapies.
Attendees should be able to use current knowledge concerning the evidence base of psychoanalytic treatments in treatment planning.
Patrick Luyten, PhD, is professor of clinical psychology at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Leuven (Belgium) and professor of psychodynamic psychology at the Research Department of Clinical, Educational, and Health Psychology, University College London (UK).
His main research interests are disorders from the affective spectrum (i.e., depression and stress- and pain-related disorders), and personality disorders. In both areas he is involved in basic research and in interventional research. He also heads a treatment service for patients with depression and functional somatic disorders in PraxisP, the treatment center of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences from the KU Leuven, Belgium.
One of his books, co-edited with Linda C. Mayes, Peter Fonagy, Mary Target and Sidney Blatt, Handbook of Psychodynamic Approaches, was published by Guilford Press in 2015 and received the 2015 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship. He recently published the Cambridge Guide to Mentalization-based Treatment (MBT) with Anthony Bateman, Peter Fonagy, Chloe Campbell, and Martin Debbané (2023), and Brief Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy: A Clinician’s Guide (2024, Oxford University Press), with Alessandra Lemma, Mary Hepworth, Peter Fonagy and Deborah Abrahams, and Therapeutic Work for Children with Complex Trauma: A Three-track Psychodynamic Approach (2024, Taylor and Francis), with Nicole Vliegen, Eileen Tang, Nick Midgley and Peter Fonagy.
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The views and opinions expressed in this presentation are those of the presenter(s) and do not necessarily represent the official policy or position of the Austen Riggs Center.
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Available Credit
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
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- 1.00 APA
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