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 The authors investigated the current practice of intensive psychotherapy by residents in the department of psychiatry. METHODS We mailed a questionnaire to 126 fourth-year psychiatry residents in order to obtain data on their clients' sociodemographic characteristics, the settings in which psychotherapy is being conducted, the effects of psychotherapy, the difficulties associated wi...

The purpose of this meta-analysis was to examine rates of treatment refusal and premature termination for pharmacotherapy alone, psychotherapy alone, pharmacotherapy plus psychotherapy, and psychotherapy plus pill placebo treatments. A systematic review of the literature resulted in 186 comparative trials that included a report of treatment refusal and/or premature termination for at least 2 of...

Background: Research findings suggest that attitudes towards psychotherapy predict willingness to seek therapy. However, understanding how medical students think about using and referring their patients for psychotherapy is limited. Aims: The aims of this study are to measure medical students' attitudes towards professional help seeking, and to investigate the reasons for whether or not they wo...

BACKGROUND Dose-effect relationship data suggest that short-term psychotherapy is insufficient for many patients with chronic distress or personality disorders (complex mental disorders). AIMS To examine the comparative efficacy of long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy (LTPP) in complex mental disorders. METHOD We conducted a meta-analysis of controlled trials of LTPP fulfilling the followi...

In ‘Psychotherapy, Placebos and Informed Consent’, I argued that the minimal standard for informed consent in psychotherapy requires ‘patients understand there is currently no consensus about mechanisms of change psychotherapy, therapy on offer…is based disputed theoretical foundations’, dissemination this information compatible with delivery many theory-specific forms (including cognitive beha...

In order to manage the emotional and psychological problems in special population such as mental retardation. HIV positive cases so on. A comprehensive management of this type includes psychotherapy. Here it is necessary know about concept its beauty various disorders. It a method which called psychotherapy (Talking Cure). Psychotherapy systematic attempt disorders with help means variant appro...

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...

In this paper, in a Foucauldian argument, I draw attention to how psychotherapy is both produced and productive. argue psychotherapeutic theories practices can contribute generate hegemonic versions of subjectivity that limit the scope alternative ways living feed into individualism. As Rose contends, psy sciences, including psychotherapy, are highly influential informing we make sense ourselve...