Objective: Depression is one of the most common mental disorders. While the general effectiveness of in- and outpatient psychotherapy is proven, different long-term patterns in treatment of symptoms of depression have been described. The aim of the present study was to show different patterns of benefit in the context of inpatient psychodynamic psychotherapy of depressive disorders and to detect predictors of different types of response that help to identify possible non-responders and adjust treatments accordingly.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF: Depression is one of the most common disorders with a rate of recurrence between 60-75 %. The effectiveness of psychodynamic therapy is well-proven, but there is still a lack of studies proving the long-term effectiveness of inpatient treatment on depressive symptom load. : After psychodynamic inpatient treatment in a psychodynamically oriented psychosomatic hospital unit, the reduction in general and depressive symptom load (e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPsychother Psychosom Med Psychol
September 2017
Depression is one of the most common illnesses. The effectiveness of psychodynamic psychotherapy on depressive symptom load has been demonstrated. However, for patients suffering from comorbid personality disorder (PD) a decreased benefit has been reported, as well as fewer rates of remission and extended duration of remission.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: While the general effectiveness of psychodynamic psychotherapy in both outpatient and inpatient treatment has been proven, few studies document the effectiveness of clinical inpatient treatment of depression through psychodynamic psychotherapy.
Methods: This paper presents first results of a naturalistic multicenter intervention study. Included were female inpatients suffering from depressive symptoms who had been admitted to 15 psychodynamically oriented psychosomatic hospital units (N = 487).