Psychotherapy Register

A Register-Based Study of Occupational Functioning in Non-Psychotic Patients Before and After Psychotherapy

Background: Mental disorders are an important cause of occupational impairments. Little is known about whether psychotherapeutic treatment helps patients function in their jobs. This study investigated long-term changes in occupational functioning for patients referred to treatment. Method: We recruited 747 consecutive patients and 14,940 matched control subjects. Data on days on sick leave, un...

Cognitive psychotherapy and integrative psychotherapy

The text presented below, consisting of two complementary parts, was written almost three years ago as a chapter for a book on cognitive therapy. As the publication of the book was continually delayed, a week before his death Professor Leder asked the book editor, Andrzej Kokoszka, if he didn’t think it suitable to publish at least parts of the book separately, since the publication date was in...

Register Windows vs. Register Allocation

A large register set can be exploited by keeping variables and constants in registers instead of in memory. Hardware register windows and compiletime or link-time global register allocation are ways to do this. A measure of the effectiveness of any of these register management schemes is how thoroughly they manage to remove loads and stores. This measure also must count extra loads and stores t...

Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy

In the text, as well as on the title-page, of this book Psychotherapy is thus defined: "Treatment that attempts to improve the condition of a human being by means of influences that are brought to bear upon his mind (psyche)." This definition is characteristic of the book or, as one had better say, of the wisdom and common sense of its author. Dr. Barker emphasizes the necessity of a full work-...