The Royal College of Psychiatrists’ guidelines for psychotherapy training (Royal College of Psychiatrists 2008a) emphasise the need for psychiatric trainees to become better trained in the psychological therapies. Suggestions for training include supervised case experience in supportive psychotherapy. In considering the local arrangements for psycho therapy training, we became interested in how...

OBJECTIVE Few randomized, controlled trials have examined the efficacy of treatments for anorexia nervosa. Cognitive behavior therapy and interpersonal psychotherapy are effective in a related disorder, bulimia nervosa. There are theoretical and treatment indications for these therapies in anorexia nervosa. METHOD Fifty-six women with anorexia nervosa diagnosed by using strict and lenient wei...

ABSTRACT Background: The emotional bond that a mother feels towards her infant is critical to their social, emotional, and cognitive development. This concept has a major influence on an infant’s future health, and growth, so the assessment of parental-fetal attachment and related factors is of great importance. This study aimed to examine the effect of psychological intervention on attachment ...

Psychodynamic concepts about borderline personality disorder are reviewed and the literature concerning psychotherapeutic treatment of this group is examined. The treatment contexts considered include: psychoanalysis and intensive (expressive) psychoanalytic psychotherapy, supportive psychotherapy, group psychotherapy, family therapy, in-patient treatment, the therapeutic community, cognitive-b...

Fifty-one schizophrenic patients were randomly assigned to receive insight-oriented or supportive psychotherapy. After two years of treatment, their outcomes were compared on a broad range of measures. The results of the two therapies were, for the most part, similar. Some advantages for each were also seen in the sectors of outcome toward which the two treatments were focused. The supportive t...

BACKGROUND The treatment recommendations for depressed patients by the American Psychiatric Association encourage a focus on the patient's preferences. The focus of this study was the preference of depressed inpatients for the type of psychotherapy. METHODS Twenty-nine subjects of both sexes who were hospitalized with a major depressive episode were interviewed at 5-day intervals with the sam...

OBJECTIVES To determine the efficacy of psychotherapy in late-life depression and to determine the effect of the type of control group on the magnitude of psychotherapy effects. DESIGN A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled psychotherapy trials for late-life depression. SETTING Outpatient clinics or in subjects' home. PARTICIPANTS Subjects aged 55 years or older wi...

This study was performed to investigate the efficacy supportive psychotherapy group training on life expectancy in gastrointestinal cancer patients in Delfan city, Iran. For this purpose, the statistic population were included all patients with gastrointestinal cancer who were referred to treatment and health centers in Delfan city. The present experiment was randomly conducted on 40 individual...