It is well-established that psychotherapies can effectively treat depression. In the past four decades, more than 400 randomized controlled trials have been conducted (Cuijpers, 2015), showing that different types of psychotherapy are effective (Barth et al. 2013), that the effects do not or only marginally differ from each other, that they are comparable with those of antidepressants, and that...

The number of studies on psychological treatments of depression in older adults has increased considerably in the past years. Therefore, we conducted an updated meta-analysis of these studies. A total of 44 studies comparing psychotherapies to control groups, other therapies or pharmacotherapy could be included. The overall effect size indicating the difference between psychotherapy and control...

The article reviews the current state and future of psychodynamic psychotherapies. In the past few decades psychodynamic psychotherapies have fallen into disrepute due to the fractious and dogmatic nature of different psychodynamic schools of thought and the lack of interest in validating some of its major premises or its effectiveness in comparison with other psychotherapy modalities. Despite ...

IMPORTANCE Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a disabling psychiatric disorder common among military personnel and veterans. First-line psychotherapies most often recommended for PTSD consist mainly of "trauma-focused" psychotherapies that involve focusing on details of the trauma or associated cognitive and emotional effects. OBJECTIVE To examine the effectiveness of psychotherapies for...