{"id":4520,"date":"2016-07-29T20:58:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T20:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/?post_type=article&p=4520"},"modified":"2016-08-01T13:58:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T13:58:18","slug":"treating-dissociative-and-personality-disorders-a-motivational-systems-approach-to-theory-and-treatment","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/article\/treating-dissociative-and-personality-disorders-a-motivational-systems-approach-to-theory-and-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Treating Dissociative and Personality Disorders: A Motivational Systems Approach to Theory and Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Antonella Ivaldi<\/strong> (Italy)
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"ivaldicover0616w\"Treating Dissociative and Personality Disorders<\/strong><\/em> (Routledge, 2016) draws on major theorists and the very latest research to help formulate and introduce the Relational\/Multi-Motivational Therapeutic Approach (REMOTA), a new model for treating such patients within a clinical setting. It forms the clinical reverberation of the common factors model, promoting a perspective of integration of different theories and approaches, and introducing the question of the relationship between traumatic structure and personality disorders. REMOTA constitutes an integrative and comparative new approach that will be indispensable for combining relational clinical knowing and Lichtenberg\u2019s and Liotti\u2019s motivational system theories, which identify the universal invariants that govern human relatedness, starting from evolutionism and infant research.<\/p>\n

Supported by her contributors, Antonella Ivaldi provides an overview of existing theories and evidence for their effectiveness in practice, and sets out her own theory in detail through rich and compelling case histories. The narratives in this book show how it is possible to integrate different contributions within a multidimensional etiopathogenic treatment model, which considers the mind as a manifestation of the relationship between body and world. From a conceptual perspective, according to which consciousness emerges and develops in the interpersonal dimension, this book proves how it becomes possible to understand, in the therapeutic space, what stands in the way of sound personal functioning, and how to create the conditions for improving this.<\/p>\n

Treating Dissociative and Personality Disorders <\/em><\/strong>will be highly useful in addressing the particular clusters of symptoms presented by patients, stimulating therapists of different backgrounds to explore the complexity of human nature. It will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, especially those in training, clinicians of different backgrounds interested in comparative psychotherapy, as well as social workers and graduate and postgraduate students.<\/p>\n

Reviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“This is an important and creative contribution to the psychotherapy integration movement. It brings together two different yet overlapping perspectives in the treatment of some of the most difficult\u2014and painfully suffering\u2014patients we work with.\u00a0 It does not gloss over differences, yet creatively seeks commonalities and complementarities.\u00a0 Moreover, by adding group work to the work with individuals it still further extends the reach of the integration and contributes valuably to the effort to relieve human suffering”.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u2013 Paul L. Wachtel, PhD, Distinguished Professor,
\ndoctoral program in clinical psychology,
\nCity College of NY and CUNY Graduate Center<\/p>\n

“Relationship, theory, and clinical acuity all come together in the wonderful synthesis that is central to Antonella\u2019s presentation and personhood. Using rich clinical examples, she demonstrates how her use of motivational theory enables her to navigate the challenges of treating difficult patients”.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u2013 Joseph Lichtenberg,\u00a0MD,
\npsychiatrist and psychoanalyst,
\nfounder and training analyst at the\u00a0Washington Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis,
\npast president of the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology,
\nEditor-In-chief of the journal\u00a0Psychoanalytic Inquiry.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Antonella Ivaldi\u2019s Relational\/Multi-Motivational Therapeutic Approach (REMOTA) is an important text for clinicians seeking to impact severely traumatized individuals whose intersubjective possibilities have been severely compromised. In bridging two major multi-motivational systems theorists, Lichtenberg and Liotti, Ivaldi further extends the terrain to include data from multiple sources\u2014infant and attachment research, neuroscience, trauma theory, the treatment of dissociative disorders, individual and group therapies. With beautifully illustrated clinical sensitivity, with vibrancy and fluidity, and with a dialogic touch, Ivaldi continuously questions and postulates afresh the strengths and limitations always intrinsic to this complex field of mind and soul.”<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u2013 Hazel Ipp, PhD, Joint Editor-in-chief,
\nPsychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives<\/em>;
\npast president of IARPP<\/p>\n

To my knowledge\u00a0Antonella Ivaldi\u2019s is the first attempt at a comparison of two different theories focused\u00a0mainly\u00a0on the lived experience of a psychotherapist,\u00a0who is dialoguing simultaneously with herself, her professional mentors, and each of her difficult patients.<\/p>\n

–Giovanni Liotti, psychiatrist and psychotherapist;
\nteaches \u201cClinical Applications of Attachment Theory\u201d at the
\nAPC postgraduate School of Psychotherapy in Rome, Italy;\u00a0past president of the Italian Society of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy (SITCC)<\/p>\n

“Antonella Ivaldi\u2019s book expresses all the determination, but also the creativity, of a passionate clinician. When the writing seems heavily theoretical, it melts in the clinical dimension; and when it is likely to become fervently clinical, it turns to the dialogue with the theoretical dimension. It is a useful and complete book, capable of holding together different approaches. The relational breath of Ivaldi\u2019s multidimensional model hosts a brilliant and critical exchange with Lichtenberg\u2019s and Liotti\u2019s motivational theories. When we read the clinical histories written by Ivaldi we find ourselves not only thinking about clinical cases described by a sensitive colleague; it is as if the voices and behaviors of our<\/em> \u201creal\u201d patients are coming to life”.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Vittorio Lingiardi, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst,
\nfull professor of dynamic psychology at the
\nFaculty of Medicine and Psychology of the
\nSapienza University of Rome,
\ndirector of the postgraduate school of clinical psychology<\/p>\n

This book is an intriguing and very important attempt by Antonella Ivaldi to create a new approach to personality disorders. In a very sophisticated and yet clear and expressive way she uses motivational theories of different approaches to create a unique theory and a unique treatment. I frankly believe that every clinician, but also every person interested in psychotherapy, will greatly enjoy this book and find it extremely useful.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u2013 Gianni Nebbiosi, psychoanalyst,
\nfounding member and president of ISIPS\u00e9,
\nvice president of IARPP,
\nmember of the IAPSP International Council<\/p>\n

“Today there are so many psychotherapy books that it is really difficult to get oriented. This book by Antonella Ivaldi is surely worth reading: it goes right to the heart of crucial issues of contemporary psychotherapy. It deals with theory of motivation and with the possibility of integrating different therapeutic approaches. And what is most fascinating is that while it shows the importance of theory, it never loses sight of the nuances of clinical encounter. In this book the patient seems even more \u201creal\u201d when seen through the lens of theory”<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u2013 Paolo Migone, MD,\u00a0Editor,\u00a0Psicoterapia e Scienze Uman
\n<\/em>www.psicoterapiaescienzeumane.it<\/a><\/p>\n

“This fascinating\u00a0and inspiring book edited by Antonella Ivaldi has many clinical and scientific merits, the main of which is its successful attempt to harmoniously integrate theories and methods originating from different perspectives in a new multidimensional etiopathogenic treatment model for patients with personality and dissociative disorders. Thanks to a series of well-described and enlightening clinical cases, Antonella Ivaldi convincingly guides the reader through her innovative model in which individual and group psychotherapy are efficaciously combined. Using the therapeutic relationship in a complex way, she builds a bridge between contemporary psychoanalysis and cognitive-evolutionary model. This really is a\u00a0brilliant book,\u00a0which I strongly recommend”.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Rita B. Ardito, PhD, president of the Italian Society of
\nBehavioural and Cognitive Therapy<\/p>\n

About the Author\/Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Antonella Ivaldi<\/strong> is a training analyst at the psychotherapy postgraduate program of the LUMSA University, the Institute of Relational Psychoanalysis and Self Psychology (ISIPS\u00c9), and the School of Cognitive Psychotherapy.<\/p>\n

Link:<\/strong> https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Treating-Dissociative-and-Personality-Disorders-A-Motivational-Systems\/Ivaldi\/p\/book\/9780415641371<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"ivaldiphoto0616w\"Antonella Ivaldi, PhD
\n<\/strong>Via Delle Fornaci 35, 00185
\nRoma\u00a0\u00a0 Italia
\nEmail Antonella Ivaldi<\/a><\/p>\n

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