BACKGROUND Dose-effect relationship data suggest that short-term psychotherapy is insufficient for many patients with chronic distress or personality disorders (complex mental disorders). AIMS To examine the comparative efficacy of long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy (LTPP) in complex mental disorders. METHOD We conducted a meta-analysis of controlled trials of LTPP fulfilling the followi...

In ‘Psychotherapy, Placebos and Informed Consent’, I argued that the minimal standard for informed consent in psychotherapy requires ‘patients understand there is currently no consensus about mechanisms of change psychotherapy, therapy on offer…is based disputed theoretical foundations’, dissemination this information compatible with delivery many theory-specific forms (including cognitive beha...

Address: 1Department of Psychiatry, University of Naples SUN, Largo Madonna delle Grazie, I-80138 Naples, Italy, 2Dresden University of Technology, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Fetscherstrasse 74, D-01307 Dresden, Germany, 3Department of Psychiatry, Medical University of Sofia, St G. Sofiisky str. 1, 1431 Sofia, Bulgaria, 4Psychiatric Department, 1st Medical ...

3 Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment, University of Granada, Granada, Spain, 4 Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany, 5 Department Medical Service III and Rheumatology, University Hospital Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, 6 Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Be...

Yoshitaka Kumakura,1,2 Paul Cumming,1 Ingo Vernaleken,3 Hans-Georg Buchholz,4 Thomas Siessmeier,4 Andreas Heinz,5 Thorsten Kienast,5 Peter Bartenstein,4 and Gerhard Gründer3 1Centre for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark, 2Department of Nuclear Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan, 3Department of P...

Soyoung Q Park,1,2* Thorsten Kahnt,1,3* Anne Beck,1 Michael X Cohen,4,5 Raymond J. Dolan,6 Jana Wrase,1* and Andreas Heinz1* 1Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany, 2Neurocognition of Decision Making Group, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 14195 Berlin, Germany, 3Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, 10115 Ber...

1 Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, RWTH Aachen University, 52072 Aachen, Germany 2 JARA-BRAIN, Jülich-Aachen Research Alliance, Germany 3 IRTG2150 International Research Training Group 4 Parietal team, INRIA, Neurospin, bat 145, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France 5 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119...

Peter Kirsch,1 Christine Esslinger,1 Qiang Chen,2,4 Daniela Mier,1 Stefanie Lis,1 Sarina Siddhanti,3,4 Harald Gruppe,1 Venkata S. Mattay,2,4 Bernd Gallhofer,1 and Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg2,3,4 1Cognitive Neuroscience Group, Center for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Justus-Liebig University, D-35385 Giessen, Germany, and 2Neuroimaging Core Facility, 3Unit for Systems Neuroscience in Psychiatry, a...

1 Neurophysics Group, Department of Neurology, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité ± Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin 12203, Germany 2 5HVHDUFK *URXS 30XOWLVHQVRU\ ,QWHJUDWLRQ ́ 'epartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, St. Hedwig Hospital, Charité ± Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin 10115, Germany 3 Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig...