Background: Quality of life is a multidimensional concept comprising material, physical, social, emotional wellbeing; Supportive psychotherapy has been developed as an approach to address the long-term difficulties of patients with chronic diseases and complaints. Aim of the Study: Present study was aimed to investigate the effectiveness of supportive therapy on quality of life among person wit...

In the last decades, psychotherapy has gained increasing acceptance as a major treatment option for mood disorders. Empirically supported treatments for major depression include cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT), behavioural therapy and, to a lesser extent, short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy. Meta-analytic evidence suggests that psychotherapy has a signi...

Aid to Psychotherapy. By Gerald Garmany, M.B., Ch.B., M.R.C.P., D.P.M. The Actinic Press, 356 Kilburn High Road, N.W.6. Cloth 5s., Paper 3/6. This book is a brief account of a method of inducing muscular taxation in anxious people in order to bring about reduction in Cental tension. It is addressed to the physiotherapist, and is simple, sj*aightforward and easily comprehensible. There are chapt...

Although different theories of psychotherapy emphasize the importance of the therapeutic relationship, these perspectives diverge when considering why this relationship matters clinically. This article proposes that different verbal constructions or definitions of the therapeutic relationship result in very different approaches to treatment and affect the way the client and therapist interact. ...

BACKGROUND Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) has demonstrated efficacy in treating mood and eating disorders. This article critically reviews outcome research testing IPT for anxiety disorders, a diagnostic area where cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has dominated research and treatment. METHODS A literature search identified six open and five controlled trials of IPT for social anxiety dis...

This report shows (a) that the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme (CCRT) can be rated reliably either from therapy sessions or from a special pretreatment interview in a group of depressed patients, and (b) that the CCRTs obtained before treatment are similar to the CCRTs extracted from the early sessions of brief dynamic psychotherapy. The data suggest that, at least in the early sessions of ...

Assimilative integration is a new type of psychotherapy integration introduced by Messer in 1992. This paper explains the “where, what, when, and how” of this integrative route, outlines its advantages and weaknesses, and discusses areas for potential assimilative practice in various models of therapy. Following a brief review of the current status of psychotherapy integration and its practices...

Although the alliance is usually considered a generic factor common to all therapies, there are theoretical reasons suspect that it may develop differently in different types of therapies. Yet, youth psychotherapy, little known about this issue date. This study investigated whether mean strength alliance, as well its trajectory over time, differed between three equally effective psychological t...