Search for Psychotherapy in Psychiatry

IPT was both well received and effective in socially disadvantaged women with depression and a history of childhood sexual abuse.

Instant messaging of therapy provides surprisingly positive results.

If psychotherapy proved ineffective for a chronically depressed patient, most clinicians would change to or add an antidepressant medication. These researchers examined whether nonresponders to . . .

We know that depression in elders can be successfully treated with medication or psychotherapy. Not only does psychotherapy offer these patients the opportunity to better . . .

Cognitive-behavioral therapy yielded higher remission rates than psychodynamic psychotherapy, but meaningful clinical differences were few.

A survival benefit from psychotherapy was noted in only a small subgroup of these patients.

Any sort seems to help.

Between 10% and 20% of bereaved individuals may suffer from complicated grief -- an admixture of symptoms of major depression and post-traumatic stress disorder; bereavement-specific . . .

Patients in the acute phase of the disease may respond well to nonspecific supportive management.

A treatment focusing on auditory sensory gating facilitates other improvements.
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Over the long term, CBT was more effective than either pharmacotherapy or combination treatment.

This secondary analysis of treatment study results indicates that providing the treatment that patients prefer might improve outcomes.

When fewer psychiatrists provide psychotherapy, what is the effect on the patient — and on the field of psychiatry?

Each reduced symptom severity and psychopathology.

In a large network meta-analysis, seven psychotherapies show at least small effect sizes compared with control conditions, but almost no differences in head-to-head comparisons.

Irritability in children; molecular depression; choosing depression treatments; good-quality psychotherapy studies; psychedelic drugs in psychiatric research; borderline personality disorder; genomic imprinting; 1000 genomes; methylation and behavior; the hippocampus in schizophrenia; antipsychotics and reasoning biases; and monitoring lithium

Consistent with other studies, depression improved with this collaborative intervention; cardiac outcomes improved too, but this novel finding was based on a relatively small number of patients and events.

This intervention, pioneered in the U.K., is better than nothing — but not as helpful as psychotherapy.

On cognitive enhancers, treatments for depression, prodromal signs of psychosis, gene–environment interactions, and addressing mutations in mitochondrial DNA

Alcohol-use disorders; understanding genetics studies and gene–environment interactions; cognition-enhancing drugs; research in pregnant patients; antidepressants in bipolar disorders and in cardiovascular disease; psychotherapy for treating depression and bipolar disorders; and neuroscience review series