The topics of spirituality and psychotherapy have often been controversial in the literature on schizophrenia treatment. However, current research indicates many potential benefits of integrating issues of religion and spirituality into psychotherapy for individuals with schizophrenia. In this paper, implications are presented for incorporating spiritual and religious issues in psychotherapy fo...

Dr. Miles Neale © copyright 2012 Buddhist psychotherapy, which has been adopted in the last several decades, is a novel approach to the clinical practice of mental health. It combines aspects of conventional psychotherapy with traditional Buddhist psychological theory and practice. Because there are several sub-schools of psychotherapy and Buddhism from which to integrate, there currently is n...

Although the role and relative prominence of psychotherapy in the treatment of schizophrenia has fluctuated over time, an analysis of the history of psychotherapy for schizophrenia, focusing on findings from the recovery movement, reveals recent trends including the emergence of the development of integrative psychotherapy approaches. The authors suggest that the recovery movement has revealed ...

The “Case of Matilde” provides us with an important example of how the in-depth study of a single psychotherapy case can shed light on concepts that lie at the very heart of the psychotherapy debate. The therapeutic relationship, patient defense mechanisms, and therapeutic technique are foundational elements of psychodynamic psychotherapy, understanding their interaction will help guide researc...

Psychology and Psychotherapy: Research Studys Psychotherapy in Troubling Time Bert Olivier* Department of Philosophy, South Africa *Corresponding author: Olivier, Submission: March 18, 2022Published: 28, 2022 DOI: 10.31031/PPRS.2022.05.000615 ISSN 2639-0612Volume5 Issue3

A number of psychological approaches to alleviating psychotic symptoms have been reported in the literature. The latest technique among them is cognitive therapy (CT). This paper describes an open trial that makes use of cognitive psychotherapy to treat chronic drug resistant delusions (more than 2 years duration) in 20 patients with schizophrenia. The positive response of all patients with the...

OBJECTIVE To assess the efficacy and acceptability of antidepressants compared to psychotherapy as single approaches for the treatment of bulimia nervosa. METHOD Dichotomous outcomes were analysed by calculating relative risks and continuous outcomes by calculating effect sizes. The number needed to treat (or harm) was calculated. Methodological quality of trials and heterogeneity in the resu...

BACKGROUND Cognitive behavioral assessment for outcome evaluation was developed to evaluate psychological treatment interventions, especially for counseling and psychotherapy. It is made up of 80 items and five scales: anxiety, well-being, perception of positive change, depression, and psychological distress. The aim of the study was to present the metric qualities and to show validity and reli...