The sequential explanatory mixed-methods study “Therapy and Psychodynamics of Patients with Psychotic Symptoms” (T3PS study) focuses on the internal differentiation of psychotic illnesses. To this end, a psychoanalytically based typology of these patients is to be developed and validated using measuring and hermeneutic methods. To develop the typology, the study design provides for psychodynamic, psychopathological and further diagnostic interviews with inpatients. In addition, relationship episode interviews will be conducted with members of the treatment team at the end of the treatment, and questionnaires will be used. Using statistical modeling and subsequent qualitative concept formation, prototypes of psychotic illnesses are to be identified along the psychoanalytic concepts of conflict, structure and relationship dynamics that can be captured in the Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnostics (OPD). The clinical usefulness of this typology will be examined by systematic studies of individual treatment courses using the Hermeneutic Single-Case Efficacy Design (HSCED).
Original language: German
Prof. Dorothea von Haebler (IPU Berlin)
Claudia Kozik (IPU Berlin)
Valentin Lackmann (Medical School Hamburg)
Dr. Miriam Henkel (Universität Kassel)
Prof. Martin Ohlmeier (Klinikum Kassel)
Prof. Knut Schnell (Asklepios Fachklinikum Göttingen)
Prof. Cord Benecke (Universität Kassel)