As developers of a psychotherapy for depression, we bring a point of view to the topic of the future of antidepressant psychotherapies. Let us state this view up front and emphasize it reflects that most of our experience has been in the United States. Our guiding principles are: • Psychotherapies, like any treatments, should be evidenced based. Evidence is best derived from randomized controll...

Abstract Different views exist regarding the nature of patients’ dependency in psychotherapy (trait versus contextual dependency), and its impact on treatment outcome duration. Therefore we examined whether levels care changed over time during a 9-month period, was related to symptom reduction wish for continuation at end treatment. Participants this longitudinal study were 113 patients ( M age...

The multicentre network being funded in the context of the program of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) on psychotherapy research is investigating effects and mechanisms of psychotherapy in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children and adults. Single projects are focussing (1) on the investigation of the efficacy of psychotherapy, st...

Persons (2013) has commented on my article (Eells, 2013) about revisiting the case formulation approach to psychotherapy research. I elaborate on her ideas by advocating for an evidencebased case formulation (EBCF) model of psychotherapy practice. The latter encourages clinician freedom of choice to select a case conceptualization and treatment plan, as long as those choices are empirically def...

(2015) Editorial: Dynamic systems theory and embodiment in psychotherapy research. A new look at process and outcome. Front. Psychol. 6:914. This research topic encompasses a collection of articles from a dynamic systems and embodiment perspective on psychotherapy research. The collection follows the general tenet that communicative processes in psychotherapy are a field-dynamic phenomenon with...

OBJECTIVE Conducting psychotherapy with chronically suicidal patients challenges clinical decision making and emotional self-management in both trainees and seasoned practitioners. Educators and trainees have noted the need for additional teaching materials in these areas. This article is intended to address these needs. METHODS We review the literature on evidence-based, suicide-oriented psy...

BACKGROUND Minimal efficacy differences have been found between cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and psychodynamic therapies for depression, but little is known about patient characteristics that might moderate differential treatment effects. We aimed to generate hypotheses regarding such potential prescriptive factors. METHOD We conducted post-hoc model-based recursive partitioning analyse...

Virtual reality (VR) has recently emerged as a potentially effective way to provide general and specialty health care services, and appears poised to enter mainstream psychotherapy delivery. Because VR could be part of the future of clinical psychology, it is critical to all psychotherapists that it be defined broadly. To ensure appropriate development of VR applications, clinicians must have a...

OBJECTIVE Time-limited manualized dynamic psychotherapy was compared with community-delivered psychodynamic therapy for outpatients with personality disorders. METHOD In a stratified randomized clinical trial, 156 patients with any personality disorder diagnosis were randomly assigned either to 40 sessions of supportive-expressive psychotherapy (N=80) or to community-delivered psychodynamic t...