Psychiatry related information on Psychotherapy

• The past decade has seen the emergence of popular "new psychotherapies" such as Gestalt Therapy, Transactional Analysis, and Primal Therapy, each with substantial followings [1].
• Depression may be treated with antidepressant psychotropic medications (tricyclics and MAO inhibitors), lithium carbonate (for bipolar disorder), electroconvulsive therapy, and a variety of psychotherapies [2].
• Although several kinds of psychotherapies have been studied in the treatment of depressive disorders, there remains a lack of data on psychodramatic psychotherapy in the treatment of major depressive disorder [3].

High impact information on Psychotherapy

• Old psychotherapies for cocaine dependence revisited [4].
• We focus on the interpersonal, cognitive, and behavioral forms of treatment that constitute the depression-focused psychotherapies, which have been studied in major depressive disorder [5].
• It is suggested that on theoretical grounds, the use of diazepam in conjunction with the behavioral psychotherapies may be contraindicated [6].
• A set of cognitive behavioral psychotherapies (CBT) has been developed for schizophrenia [7].
• Finally, new psychotherapies such as cue exposure and pharmacotherapies that aim to attenuate drinking behaviour, such as naltrexone and acamprosate, provide opportunities to improve understanding of the nature and significance of craving [8].

Chemical compound and disease context of Psychotherapy

• Seeds of strategic and interactional psychotherapies: seminal contributions of Milton H. Erickson [9].
• Behavioral and cognitive-behavioral therapy, and a range of pharmacological interventions, lead to substantial improvement for the average patient, with individual psychotherapies and clomipramine and other Serotonin reuptake inhibitors faring best across multiple metrics [10].
• These range from the doctor's advice to stop, education programs, group and individual psychotherapies, behavioral techniques, hypnosis, and the use of nicotine gum [11].

Gene context of Psychotherapy

• ADHD is one of the most common comorbid diagnoses with PSUD, and it is important that efficacious psychotherapies be developed to complement psychopharmacological approaches [12].
• Manual-based psychotherapies in clinical practice Part 1: assets, liabilities, and obstacles to dissemination [13].
• Treatment of ego-dystonic homosexuality: individual and group psychotherapies [14].
• The emergence of different models of psychological healing from Freud to the present, and specific features which characterize "new" psychotherapies in contrast to psychoanalysis are examined [15].
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a well-defined clinical syndrome that has been difficult to treat with standard psychotherapies and medications [16].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Psychotherapy

• OBJECTIVE: To examine the differential course and treatment outcome of patients who participated in a randomized clinical trial, comparing cognitive, family, and supportive psychotherapies for adolescent major depressive disorder [17].

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