BACKGROUND Transference-focused psychotherapy is a manualised treatment for borderline personality disorder. AIMS To compare transference-focused psychotherapy with treatment by experienced community psychotherapists. METHOD In a randomised controlled trial (NCT00714311) 104 female out-patients were treated for 1 year with either transference-focused psychotherapy or by an experienced commu...

Background and Objectives: Monotheistic integrated psychotherapy is regarded as a multidimensional and comprehensive therapy recommended for the treatment of abnormal behaviors, mood and anxiety, personality, and drug use disorders. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of monotheistic integrated psychotherapy on the resilience, anxiety, and depression levels among prisoners. ...

BACKGROUND It has been demonstrated that cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) has a moderate effect on symptom reduction and on general well being of patients suffering from psychosis. However, questions regarding the specific efficacy of CBT, the treatment safety, the cost-effectiveness, and the moderators and mediators of treatment effects are still a major issue. The major objective of this t...

Reading the special issue of the American Psychologist (January 2000) on the contemporary, data-based movement of positive psychology was an uplifting experience in itself. Positive psychology seems to emerge as a renewed humanistic approach to the individual and collective potential for happiness, but this time it is strengthened by empirical data and adequate research methodologies. Seligman ...

This paper illustrates the application of Hildegard Peplau's Interpersonal Theory of Nursing to group psychotherapy. The phases of the nurse-patient relationship, including orientation, identification, exploitation and resolution, are described as they relate to group psychotherapy, and clinical examples are presented. The clinical examples also demonstrate the patient's movement in group thera...

In order to manage the emotional and psychological problems in special population such as mental retardation. HIV positive cases so on. A comprehensive management of this type includes psychotherapy. Here it is necessary know about concept its beauty various disorders. It a method which called psychotherapy (Talking Cure). Psychotherapy systematic attempt disorders with help means variant appro...

The article explores ideas about the role of group mentalizing—the experience joint attention and shared intentionality—as a process that can support emergence more collaborative salutogenic social functioning. This is based on developmental evolutionary thinking importance in human cognitive development experiencing rupture repair as part together—while also working with separate nature our th...