Understanding mechanisms of action in group psychotherapy. Seasoned group therapists recognize that the success of individual group members is intimately linked to the overall health of the group-as-a-whole. Indeed, a sizable portion of the clinical and empirical literature delineates therapeutic factors and mechanisms that have been linked with healthy well-functioning therapy groups. Mechanis...

objective: the present study aimed to investigate the effects of group positive psychotherapy on increasing the happiness of mothers of children with cochlear implants.  methods: this study was a quasi-experimental research with pretest-posttest, a control group, and a 75-day follow-up design. a total of 20 mothers of children with cochlear implants treated in baqiyatallah hospital of tehran ci...

OBJECTIVE Aim of this experimental study is evaluating the effectiveness of two different approaches towards the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD): Positive-oriented psychotherapy and group cognitive-behavior therapy. METHODS Eighteen out-patients suffering from major depression were randomly divided into two groups to be treated according to either of these two approaches. Both gr...

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...

1 Neurophysics Group, Department of Neurology, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité ± Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin 12203, Germany 2 5HVHDUFK *URXS 30XOWLVHQVRU\ ,QWHJUDWLRQ ́ 'epartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, St. Hedwig Hospital, Charité ± Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin 10115, Germany 3 Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig...