Change after long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

Long-term Outcome of Long-term Psychoanalytically Oriented Therapies: First Findings of the Stockholm Outcome of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis Study

A cost-utility analysis of psychoanalysis versus psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

OBJECTIVES Despite the considerable and growing body of research about the clinical effectiveness of long-term psychoanalytic treatment, relatively little attention has been paid to economic evaluations, particularly with reference to the broader range of societal effects. In this cost-utility study, we examined the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) of psychoanalysis versus psychoanal...

Identifying clinical cases among patients assigned to psychoanalytic treatment.

The present study compared 89 patients assigned to long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy or psychoanalysis in the Netherlands with psychiatric and nonclinical norm groups with regard to symptoms and personality pathology as assessed with six instruments. Patients filled in four self-report questionnaires (Symptom Checklist-90-Revised [SCL-90-R], Beck Depression Inventory-II [BDI-II], State-Tra...

Problems of scientific validation of group analytic psychotherapy

The aim of psychotherapy – individual or group psychotherapy – is to bring about change in painful feelings, distorted perceptions of self and others, dysfunctional behavior, etc. While there are many systematic studies of short term individual and group psychotherapy, researches of long term psychotherapy such group analytic psychotherapy is, hardly exist. The practice of group psychotherapy h...

Should clinical training in long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy be mandatory in residency training? A debate.

I am Dr. Harvey Bluestone, Professor of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Director of Psychiatry at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, a major training affiliate of the medical school. I would like to welcome everyone to the debate on “Should Clinical Training in Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Be Mandatory in Residency Training?” The crowded room in the face of exciti...