Practicing Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychotherapies in Developing Societies

Do therapists practicing psychoanalysis, psychodynamic therapy and short-term dynamic therapy address patient defences differently?

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...

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...

Practicing Psychodynamic Therapy: A Casebook PDF

Short-term psychodynamic psychotherapies for common mental disorders.

BACKGROUND Since the mid-1970s, short-term psychodynamic psychotherapies (STPP) for a broad range of psychological and somatic disorders have been developed and studied. Early published meta-analyses of STPP, using different methods and samples, have yielded conflicting results, although some meta-analyses have consistently supported an empirical basis for STPP. This is an update of a review th...