Innovative contemporary psychotherapies

A Comparison of Psychotherapies

Before beginning a discussion of the principles of transpersonal psychotherapy, it may be u.onh considering the importance of a transpersonal perspective for therapeutic work. In acknowledging a wider spectrum and greater potential for psycholqical well-being and transcendence than do traditional approaches, the transpersonal perspective affords individuals who are ready to do so the oppor run ...

Neuroimaging in PTSD-Related Psychotherapies

Culturally Sensitive Psychotherapies in Confucian Societies

This article describes self-cultivation practices originating from the cultural traditions of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. It delineates the therapeutic implications of the three states of self pursued by these three traditions: namely, the relational self, the authentic self, and the nonself. Several psychotherapy techniques derived from each of these traditions are discussed in the con...

The effectiveness of psychodynamic psychotherapies: An update.

This paper provides a comprehensive review of outcome studies and meta-analyses of effectiveness studies of psychodynamic therapy (PDT) for the major categories of mental disorders. Comparisons with inactive controls (waitlist, treatment as usual and placebo) generally but by no means invariably show PDT to be effective for depression, some anxiety disorders, eating disorders and somatic disord...

Transference, transference interpretations, and transference-focused psychotherapies.

The concept of transference and the use of transference interpretations in psychotherapy have been highly controversial topics garnering frequent attention both within psychoanalysis and across multiple orientations of psychotherapy. In this article, we review the empirical evidence as it bears on this controversy and discuss the implications of the evidence for psychoanalysis, psychodynamic ps...