Psychiatry Unbound | Problem-Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Episode 23: Problem-Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Host

Laura Roberts, M.D.

Laura Weiss Roberts, M.D., M.A., is Chairman and a Katharine Dexter McCormick and Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.

Guests

Fredric N. Busch

Dr. Fredric N. Busch is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in New York City specializing in Depression, Panic and other Anxiety Disorders, and Bipolar Disorder. His treatment approaches include psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychopharmacology. He is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and a lecturer in psychiatry at Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.

Problem-Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

April 7th, 2023

Dr. Laura Roberts is joined by Fredric N. Busch, M.D. -a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in New York City specializing in Depression, Panic and other Anxiety Disorders, and Bipolar Disorder- to discuss his new book: Problem-Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy published by American Psychiatric Publishing. Amongst the topics they discuss: how the psychodynamic approach can seem initially overwhelming, that the key concepts are easy to assimilate and can be applied with confidence by trainees, and, in an outlier of a tangent, how Sigmund Freud helped restore the composer Mahler’s sex life.

In this episode:

Adaptability of the approach (0:01)

Introduction (2:17)

Why the world needed this particular book (3:24)

An example of a presenting problem (5:47)

Conceptual Framing (11:07)

What other principles can the book convey to practitioners? (14:20)

Mahler’s potency (16:30)

Challenges confronted in creation of the book (20:19)

The Chief Complaint (24:40)

Problems faced during the creation of the book (29:10)

Trauma (33:25)