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1. Biomedical and psychosocial interventions in the mental health care system in Lithuania: "Leaving the psychiatrist's clinic -- with at least a couple of prescriptions".

Author

Šumskienė, Eglė, Petružytė, Donata, and Klimaitė, Vaiva

Subjects
*MENTAL health, *PSYCHOTHERAPY, *DRUG therapy, *MENTAL illness treatment, *MENTAL health services
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Aims: The aim of the study was to evaluate the mental health care system from the perspective of experts, as well as a subjective review by patients in mental health centers of the treatment they are receiving. Methods: This article includes data from two studies performed in Lithuania: expert and patient research. Research participants were 20 experts (non-governmental organizations, academics, service workers, decision makers, central government) and 30 patients (heterogeneous according to their demographic characteristics, diagnoses, forms of treatment received). Results: According to the patients, psychotherapeutic treatment requires a much higher degree of patients' active involvement and input; medication-based treatment contributes to the patient's passive position regarding their healing process. Experts' opinions regarding the balance between psychotherapy and medication focused on the following topics: the availability of psychotherapy in bigger cities and its lack in rural settings; the supply of private providers and lack of public services; a progressive youth and a conservative older generation of psychiatrists; a paradoxical concentration of psychotherapy in inpatient facilities and its lack in the community. Conclusions: Though mental health care requires a clear and ethical balance of biomedical and psychotherapeutic interventions, a transparent and public dialogue about the efficacy and advantages of different treatments is needed, but this consensus is still not achieved in many countries, including Lithuania. Both psychotherapy and medication-based treatments are regarded as useful elements of treatment from both the expert and the patient perspective. However, there is lack of availability of psychotherapy services in the mental health system in Lithuania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2018
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2. POST-SOVIET EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPY: MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF A.ALEKSEICHIK'S "INTENSIVE THERAPEUTIC LIFE" METHOD.

Author

Petružytė, Donata

Subjects
*EXISTENTIAL psychotherapy, *THERAPEUTICS, *PERSONALITY, *PSYCHOTHERAPY
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The aim of this research was to analyze and systematize complex data of qualitative research on purpose to determine substantial and peculiar traits of A.Alekseichik's "Intensive Therapeutic Life (ITL)" method. Goals of research: 1) discuss A.Alekseichk's impact on (post)Soviet psychotherapy, 2) to present theoretical background and basic concepts of ITL, 3) to discern specific ways of therapist's work during therapeutic process according to ITL. Paper is based on qualitative research which consist of analysis of 1) A.Alekseichik's writings and various (scientific, journalistic, documentary) texts about ITL, 2) observational data from A.Alekseichik's individual, group and community psychotherapy. Data analysis method: qualitative content analysis. The results of research showed that A.Alekseichik was/is one of the most prominent personalities in soviet/postsoviet psychotherapy. Although ITL is related with existential philosophy and psychotherapy, has some specific influences (most tangible is the influence of orthodox (Eastern Christian) thinkers ideas and, so called, orthodox psychotherapy). Main category of ITL is Life as primal process, which encompass all, as well as, eternity and nothingness. Life is common subsistence of person's physical, psychical and spiritual processes, which penetrates and converts to common being with other people and the world. Therapist creates particular space, time and conditions which spur and foster exertion of healing power of life. Therapist uses some specific ways of work that make psychotherapy similar to real life and more charged, intense. Although ITL is suitable for individual therapy and small groups, it works best in large groups and therapeutic community. This research is the one of the first thorough analysis of ITL (first one presented for Western auditory) as psychotherapy system, settled and developed in (post) soviet area, which proposes the way for orthodox psychotherapy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2014
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