BACKGROUND Depression is a condition with various modes of treatment, including pharmacotherapy, psychotherapy, and some combination of each. The role of psychotherapy in the treatment of depression relative to the role of pharmacotherapy is not well understood, and guidelines for psychotherapy in the primary care setting differ from guidelines for specialty care. There is little evidence conce...

In this paper I review the use of the concept of transference in psychotherapy, and explore its limitations. I go on to argue that the concept is no longer useful to us in the practice of contemporary psychotherapy. Along the way I will make reference to some of the potential pitfalls of a psychotherapy without it, pitfalls into which I believe practitioners of psychotherapy and counselling fre...

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Virtual reality is widely used in psychotherapy in recent years and has got good effects. This paper introduces current situation of virtual reality applications in psychotherapy, such as anxiety disorder, autism, brain injury and mentally retarded. We do analysis about the existing constraints and weakness and summarize the characters and prospect of virtual reality as an effective tool for as...

In this study, Department of Veterans Affairs Fiscal Year 2006 national workload data are analyzed to determine use and intensity of outpatient individual and group psychotherapy and, using multivariate analysis, to identify sociodemographic and diagnostic correlates. Results show that among veterans receiving specialty mental health services (n=934,832), average visits numbered 7.9, 64.7% rece...

Successful management of patient behaviors that interfere with the process of psychotherapy is essential to treating patients with borderline personality disorder. Provocative patient behaviors that induce a strong negative reaction from the therapist must be attenuated. Strategies for doing so used in four different treatment paradigms--Kernberg's expressive psychotherapy, Linehan's dialectica...

The topics of spirituality and psychotherapy have often been controversial in the literature on schizophrenia treatment. However, current research indicates many potential benefits of integrating issues of religion and spirituality into psychotherapy for individuals with schizophrenia. In this paper, implications are presented for incorporating spiritual and religious issues in psychotherapy fo...