BACKGROUND Loss of dignity for people with advanced cancer is associated with high levels of psychological and spiritual distress and the loss of the will to live. Dignity Therapy is a brief psychotherapy, which has been developed to help promote dignity and reduce distress. It comprises a recorded interview, which is transcribed, edited then returned to the patient, who can bequeath it to peop...

OBJECTIVE Identification of pretreatment patient characteristics predictive of psychotherapy outcome could help to guide treatment choices. This study evaluates patients' initial level of immature defense style as a predictor of the outcome of short-term versus long-term psychotherapy. METHOD In the Helsinki Psychotherapy Study, 326 adult outpatients with mood or anxiety disorder were randomi...

Therapists of many persuasions emphasize the therapy relationship in their work, a priority backed by strong empirical evidence. Training in how to maximize the power and potential of the therapy relationship, however, has lagged behind. A novel approach to using the therapy relationship and to training therapists in its use is provided by Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP). FAP training i...

Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) prevents weight gain and reduces loss-of-control (LOC)-eating in adults. However, IPT was not superior to health-education (HE) for preventing excess weight gain and reducing LOC-eating over 1-year in adolescent girls at risk for excess weight gain and eating disorders. Limited data suggest that older and non-White youth may be especially responsive to IPT. In ...

We explore a new distinction between the future, prospective memory system being investigated in current neuroscience and the past, retrospective memory system, which was the original theoretical foundation of therapeutic hypnosis, classical psychoanalysis, and psychotherapy. We then generalize a current evolutionary theory of sleep and dreaming, which focuses on the future, prospective memory ...

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...

Treatment for psychogenic nonepileptic seizure (NES) typically consists of psychopharmacological intervention and psychotherapy. Psychotherapy is believed to be effective in identifying the etiology of the disorder and treating disorder-related comorbidities. However, there is as of yet no clear consensus on the psychotherapeutic methodology most effective in treating NES. In the current case r...

abstract background: personality disorders have essential roles in developing and maintaining depressive episodes, though psychotherapies must approach both symptoms and personality problems. this study examined the efficacy of brief object relations psychotherapy on depression severity and perceived quality of life of women suffer from major depressive disorder comorbid with cluster c personal...

The development, over the past tViO years, of brief group psychotherapy as a treatment approach with military psychiatric patients is described. The tactics and techniques involved in the method are particularly emphasised. The recurrent themes of service life, identity difficulties and nuclear family disturbances were noted in all groups and the concept that the Army might be experienced as a ...

OBJECTIVE This study will evaluate how decreasing depression severity via group psychotherapy affects the cognitive function of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) who are also diagnosed with depression and cognitive dysfunction. METHOD MS patients completed the Brief Repeatable Battery of Neuropsychological Tests and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). The group members diagnosed with depress...