[Levels of the training of psychotherapists and results of analytic psychotherapy].

The purpose of this study was to investigate therapists experience as predictor of psychotherapy outcome. We studied consecutive patients (n = 76) assigned to psychoanalytic psychotherapy after being referred to the Geneva University Psychiatric Center for psychiatric treatment. Fifty-seven subjects were treated by trainees and nineteen had certified psychotherapists.

Crisis intervention in depressed patients with and without DSM-III-R personality disorders.

We compared the relationships between response to a crisis intervention program and long-term outcome in 31 depressed outpatients with and without DSM-III-R personality disorders (PD). The presence of PD predicted a poorer 2-year outcome. PD subjects with better working alliance and increased insight at termination of crisis intervention had increased compliance with long-term psychiatric treatment (p < .