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Title: Meta-analysis: long-term therapy is effective.(Adult Psychiatry)
Author: Mary Ann Moon
Publication: Clinical Psychiatry News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2008
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 36 Issue: 10 Page: 24(1)
Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
Citation Details
Title: Meta-analysis: long-term therapy is effective.(Adult Psychiatry)
Author: Mary Ann Moon
Publication: Clinical Psychiatry News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2008
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 36 Issue: 10 Page: 24(1)
Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
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Long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy is effective for patients with complex mental disorders, a meta-analysis of 23 studies shows.
In what the authors described as the first-ever meta-analysis of the outcomes of long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy, the approach "was significantly superior to shorter-term methods of psychotherapy with regard to overall outcome, target problems, and personality functioning. [It] yielded large and stable effect sizes in the treatment of patients with personality disorders, multiple mental disorders, and chronic mental disorders," reported Falk Leichsenring, D.Sc, of the University of Giessen, Germany, and Sven Rabung, Ph.D., of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany.
