domingo, 10 de agosto de 2014

Reading evidence for Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy


A review of meta-analyses of studies testing and comparing psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy.


These are publicly available studies and people interested in the subject can go ahead and read them, but if one is not used to reading them with a critical mind and at least a basic knowledge of statistics and research methodology, the author/narrator of the video guides you through it all.

Most interesting are, for example, the effect size of long-term psychoanalytic therapies (PsAT) for mild and moderate symptoms (.78) versus severe personality symptoms (.94) which are established as the most difficult to treat. 

Another result is that CBT, drugs and Psycodynamic therapy were somewhat similar at end of the treatment period of the studies, but months after, particularly 4 months, patients relapse at a high rate for drugs and CBT. A conclusion from an analysis done in Scotland about 10 studies is that, "Psychological therapy services need to recognize that anxiety disorders tend to follow a chronic course and that good outcomes for CBT over the short term are no guarantee of good outcomes over the long term." This is also backed up by other, very interesting studies done in other countries.

On the other hand, other studies that test PsAT, show that the results of
Psycodynamic therapy are maintained over time and in fact increase.

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