Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnostics (OPD):
Foundations and Manual.

OPD Task Force
(2001)

Abstract:

The diagnosis of mental and psychosomatic disorders is currently dominated by operationalized systems of diagnosis, the most important of which are the DSM III and IV and ICD-10 classifications.

Unfortunately, psychodynamic aspects were neglected during this purely phenomenology-based operationalization. And at the same time, psychoanalytical diagnostics (in the stricter sense of the term) has remained full of contradictions.

This book aims to resolve this dilemma. It presents an operationalized psychodynamic approach to diagnosis, based on a multiaxial system. In this way it mediates between exclusively descriptive systems such as DSM IV and ICD-10 on the one hand and psychodynamic diagnoses on the other.

The Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnostics (OPD) system is based on five axes: I = Experience of illness and preconditions for treatment; II = Relation; III Conflict; IV = Structure; and V = Psychic and psychosomatic disorders. It is this Vth axis that allows the OPD diagnosis to be related to the ICD-10 and DSM IV classifications.

A diagnostic questionnaire simplifies the use of the OPD in practice.

This ground-breaking book will thus be of interest to psychodynamically oriented psychiatrists and psychotherapists, physicians interested in psychosomatic medicine, and clinical psychologists.

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