BACKGROUND Elderly patients with major depression, including those having a first episode, are at high risk for recurrence of depression, disability, and death. METHODS We tested the efficacy of maintenance paroxetine and monthly interpersonal psychotherapy in patients 70 years of age or older who had depression (55 percent of whom were having a first episode) in a 2-by-2, randomized, double-...

How is motivational interviewing (MI) related to psychotherapy more generally? In its original formulation MI was intended to address the specific problem of ambivalence about change. It was not designed as a comprehensive psychotherapy or model of change. Subsequent clinical experience, however, suggests ways in which the spirit and method of MI may be useful throughout processes of change. Im...

BACKGROUND The relative efficacy of psychotherapy and combined therapy in the treatment of depression is still a matter of debate. AIMS To investigate whether combined therapy has advantages over psychotherapy alone. METHOD A 6-month randomised clinical trial compared Short Psychodynamic Supportive Psychotherapy (n=106) with combined therapy (n=85) in ambulatory patients with mild or modera...

The aim of psychotherapy – individual or group psychotherapy – is to bring about change in painful feelings, distorted perceptions of self and others, dysfunctional behavior, etc. While there are many systematic studies of short term individual and group psychotherapy, researches of long term psychotherapy such group analytic psychotherapy is, hardly exist. The practice of group psychotherapy h...

Psychotherapy is the use of psychological methods through regular interactions (counselling sessions) with clients to help them change behaviour and overcome problems aim improving their well being mental health. Psychotherapists may be psychiatrists, psychologists, clinical social workers or professional counsellors. This paper examines Behaviour Therapy approach which one form psychotherapy a...

Summary The case of an anorectic patient is presented to demonstrate how well-known symptomatic phenomena such as a supposedly distorted body perception can be understood. Further theoretical suggestions are made explain the motive starve, without making complicated psychodynamic assumptions. To do so, genuine gestalttheoretical concepts ‘centring’ and ‘reference system’ used. This leads hints ...

OBJECTIVE Few randomized, controlled trials have examined the efficacy of treatments for anorexia nervosa. Cognitive behavior therapy and interpersonal psychotherapy are effective in a related disorder, bulimia nervosa. There are theoretical and treatment indications for these therapies in anorexia nervosa. METHOD Fifty-six women with anorexia nervosa diagnosed by using strict and lenient wei...

BACKGROUND This randomized clinical trial compared 16-week interventions with interpersonal psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, supportive psychotherapy, and supportive psychotherapy with imipramine for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive patients with depressive symptoms. METHODS Subjects (N = 101; 85 male, 16 female) with known HIV seropositivity for at least 6 months were ...

OBJECTIVE There is no published data on how mental health professionals (MHPs) in developing Asian countries view psychotherapy. Since practitioners of psychotherapy may come from both medical and non-medical (e.g. clinical psychology, social work, counselling) backgrounds, differences between the 2 groups may have practical significance. The aims of this study were to examine the views of MHPs...

An integrative model of narrative identity builds on a dual memory system that draws on episodic memory and a long-term self to generate autobiographical memories. Autobiographical memories related to critical goals in a lifetime period lead to life-story memories, which in turn become self-defining memories when linked to an individual's enduring concerns. Self-defining memories that share rep...