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..At present, there is no evidence to suggest that one specific form of psychotherapy is more effective than another. Further research is needed on the diagnosis, neurobiology, and treatment of borderline personality disorder...

..This example shows that some authors are not interested in a truly scientific discussion, but rather try to discredit a rival method of psychotherapy and its scientific representatives for political reasons...

..This study is an extension to a large multi-site RCT (N = 512) comparing the efficacy of STPP to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) of Social Phobia...

..The place of long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy (LTPP) within psychiatry is controversial. Convincing outcome research for LTPP has been lacking...

..Thus, the results provided by the network may have an important impact on the treatment of SP and on the development of treatment guidelines for SP...

..Thus, the SOPHO-NET program allows for a highly interdisciplinary research of psychotherapy in social phobia...

..The aim of this study was to compare short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy and CBT with regard to treatment outcome in generalized anxiety disorder...

..This is reputation-damaging behaviour that clearly goes beyond a scientific discussion among researchers and constitutes a special act which itself violates the principles of good scientific practice...

..The results are discussed with regard to the treatment of severely disordered patients...

..Dose-effect relationship data suggest that short-term psychotherapy is insufficient for many patients with chronic distress or personality disorders (complex mental disorders)...

..By a discriminant analysis, 90% of the borderline patients, 80% of the patients with neurotic disorders, 76% of the acute schizophrenics, and 92% of the chronic schizophrenics were classified correctly...

..This study examines the association between the COMT Val158Met gene polymorphism, and alexithymia...

..Although significant, the predictive values were relatively small, and patients with alexithymia indeed benefited from therapy. Implications of these results are discussed for the specificity of disorders and therapeutic approach...

..Furthermore, there are findings indicating that 16-20 sessions of both STPP and CBT/BT are insufficient for most patients to achieve lasting remission. Future studies should address the effects of longer treatments of depression...

..Here, the influence of inpatient multimodal psychodynamic psychotherapy on alexithymia and symptom load was evaluated in a large sample of patients...

..In Study 2, 82 nonclinical subjects (43 women, M age = 34.0 yr.) were tested using the Reis inventory. The results obtained in these subjects are consistent with the hypothe-..

..g., general symptom distress, frequency of self-mutilating behavior, number of hospitalizations). The frequency of inpatient treatments (hospitalizations) decreased dramatically (< 10 days annually; effect size: d = 2.88)...

..In this article, a proposal is made to define levels of evidence of naturalistic studies. A gold standard for naturalistic studies is proposed...

..The present article deals with the question as to which kind of evidence is necessary to demonstrate the effectiveness of a psychotherapeutic method...

..The authors conducted a meta-analysis to address the effectiveness of psychodynamic therapy and cognitive behavior therapy in the treatment of personality disorders...

..In this trial, efficacy and mechanisms of change (fearful cognitions vs. Core Conflictual Relationship Theme) in both therapies are being evaluated...

..11 (observer-rated measures) for longer term psychodynamic therapy. Although there is evidence of the effectiveness of psychodynamic therapy, further research of specific forms of psychodynamic therapy in specific disorders is necessary...

..The efficacy of psychodynamic therapy is controversial. Previous meta-analyses have reported discrepant results...

..Psychopharmacological treatments are included if necessary. This article reports the results of the treatment of a sample of patients with schizophrenic and other psychotic disorders (ICD-10: F20-F25)...

..Psychotherapeutic techniques, major indications, and empirical evidence will be presented. The focus will be on empirically supported models of treatment...

..The treatment manual is presently being used in a large-scale randomized controlled multicenter study comparing short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy in the treatment of social phobia...

..Evidence is reviewed for both efficacy and mechanisms of change of short- and moderate-term psychodynamic psychotherapy. Furthermore, results of effectiveness studies of long-term psychoanalytic therapy are reviewed...

..Conclusions are drawn for future research...

..g. patients with borderline personality disorders, prepsychotic disorders, addictions and perversions...

..The relatively small therapist effect on outcome is attributed to compensatory mechanisms in the specific context of inpatient therapy...

..Examined here is the degree to which particular aspects of treatment experience in the inpatient psychotherapy of children and adolescents correlate significantly with the actual success of treatment...

..At the end of therapy, 77% of the patients showed clinically significant improvements. In the 1-year follow-up group, this was true for 80%. Further results are presented and discussed...

..Specifically, the research question addressed the efficacy of long-term therapy in specific diagnostic groups and was was compared with that of a parallel group who underwent shorter-term psychodynamic therapy...