OBJECTIVES The efficacy of short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy (STPP) for depression is debated. Recently, a number of large-scale and high-quality studies have been conducted. We examined the efficacy of STPP by updating our 2010 meta-analysis. RESULTS After a thorough literature search, 54 studies (33 randomized clinical trials) totaling 3946 subjects were included. STPP was significantl...

UNLABELLED This study examined changes in adolescents' internal representations of their relationship with their therapist and the extent to which these changes were related to changes in their representations of their relationship with their parents and to treatment outcomes. METHOD Thirty adolescents (aged 15-18 years, 70% women) undergoing psychodynamic psychotherapy participated in relati...

INTRODUCTION Therapeutic alliance is a key component of the psychotherapeutic process. This study estimated the impact of the therapeutic alliance as measured by CALPAS-P in an individual brief psychodynamic psychotherapy program. METHODS To study the impact of the therapeutic alliance patients in psychotherapy answered to the CALPAS-P at the first and third session and to the Self-report Que...

The notion of brief dynamic psychotherapy (BDP) may seem at first sight to be a contradiction in terms. 'Dynamic' is a Freudian psychoanalytic term implying conflictual psychological forces an opposition between the conscious and unconscious mind, and the use of defence mechanisms to arrive at a compromise between them. The rigidity of the obsessional person whose self-expression is traded for ...

objective: functional dyspepsia (fd) is a common symptom of upper gastrointestinal discomfort. few data are available on the role of psychotherapy in the treatment of dyspeptic syndromes. this study assesses whether brief core conflictual relationship theme (ccrt) psychoanalytic psychotherapy improves gastrointestinal and psychiatric symptoms in patients with functional dyspepsia. methods: a ra...

abstract this study had examined the effect of brief empathic psychotherapy in decreasing anxiety and depression among university students with respect to their attachment styles. as a result we accumulated a sample of 20 students recognized as depressed and anxious by filling dass(depression & anxiety inventory).these students also filled the hazan & shaver attachment questioner and sampling c...