Psychodynamic Psychotherapies: Negative Effects
Little information exists on possible negative effects of the dynamic psychotherapies on depressed patients. Indeed, in a survey of the literature, Hollon and Emerson (1985) were unable to…

Psychodynamic Psychotherapies: Suicidality
Retrospective studies have clearly established that well over 90% of persons who commit suicide have a diagnosable psychiatric illness, usually depression (Asnis et al. 1993). Treatment of the suicidal…

Psychodynamic Psychotherapies: Treatment Principles
Although psychodynamic approaches to depression are lumped together in the design of this present volume, they may vary considerably in their technical strategies. The actual interventions used in…

Psychodynamic Psychotherapies: Efficacy

Evidence for Acute-Phase Efficacy
No controlled efficacy studies exist for extended dynamic therapy or psychoanalysis of depression. Brief dynamic therapy, on the other hand, has been studied in 10 randomized…

Psychodynamic Psychotherapies: Applications and Procedures
The psychodynamic clinician approaches all clinical situations from a particular perspective. Psychodynamic psychiatry is fundamentally a way of thinking. More specifically, it is “an approach to…

Introduction

Psychodynamic therapies of depression have been studied less rigorously than cognitive-behavioral therapy and interpersonal psychotherapy. Nevertheless, both brief and extended psychodynamic psychotherapies, and in some cases psychoanalysis, have…