BOF ZAP Lacan Ghent University
A professorship granted by the Special Research Fund is a primarily research-oriented position and is made available for excellent researchers with a high-quality research programme.
A professorship granted by the Special Research Fund is a primarily research-oriented position and is made available for excellent researchers with a high-quality research programme.
The strong presence of a normative, deficit-oriented perspective in research on special interests has led to a one-sided and poor understanding of the phenomenon. This project aims to actively respond to this lack by using ethnographic methods and recent psychoanalytical theory to study the function, meaning and experience of special interests in the lives of people with autism spectrum disorder.
The patient is an active agent in his therapeutic process and is considered the most important determinant of psychotherapy outcome. The concept of patient agency refers to this characteristic to actively generate change. We will investigate whether patient agency can predict therapy outcome and how it comes about in the therapist-patient interaction.
PSYNC represents a new model of interdisciplinary research collaboration. Through improved internal synergy, international visibility, recruitment capacity and a focus on societal impact, PSYNC contributes to a better mental health. The experience and expertise can be located at the level of the consortium: the interplay between coordinator, promotors, research teams and central services, with a crucial role for the coordinator.
This project studies the subjective experience of Voice Hearing (VH), using the method of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis in three participant groups: schizophrenic, attenuated psychosis, and non-clinical (with VH). The aim is to study how VH affects the experience of identity, the relation to the social, and affective experience. We also study how VH is related to delusional beliefs.
To increase the research and teaching capacity of the Ghent University SSH Faculties a Special Research Fund pre-allocation of 15 additional tenure track positions – three for each Faculty – was provided in 2011.
Clinical Psychology is in need of more evidence-based practice and policy and more practice-based research. In order to reach that aim, the present consortium proposes a shared strategy for research valorisation.
Traumatic experiences often have a tremendeous impact on someone’s functioning and cannot easily be integrated within the narrative identity. In this study it is investigated by means of systematic case studies how representations of traumatic experiences are constructed and change during psychodynamic psychotherapy. Effects on general well-being, emotional and relational functioning are also investigated as are facilitating therapeutic ...
The current study investigates for the first time in an experimental design whether psychodynamic techniques for Major Depressive Disorder are differentially efficacious dependent on personality traits of the patient. More specifically if supportive, respectively interpretative techniques are significantly more efficacious in reducing depressive symptoms for dependent, respectively self-critical patiens. This through increased relational ...
A position as pre-allocated professor grants one the privilege for a period of maximum 5 years to focus primarily on research, with a teaching load limited to no more than 8 ECTS credits per semester on average over a period of 3 years.