[Exploring the field of psychotherapies and the development of APAP].

Objective The field of psychotherapy is growing and is offering more and more types of treatments. The objective of this paper is to go through many clinical researches and experiences from psychotherapists with several psychotherapies in universities in Montreal and Lausanne, especially in the Institute for Mental Diseases in Montreal (IUSMM). Method Research and clinical evaluations have varied over many years.

Psychotherapy Augmentation through Preconscious Priming.

Objective: To test the hypothesis that repeated preconscious (masked) priming of personalized positive cognitions could augment cognitive change and facilitate achievement of patients' goals following a therapy.

Methods: Twenty social phobic patients (13 women) completed a 36-weeks study beginning by 12 weeks of group behavioral therapy. After the therapy, they received 6 weeks of preconscious priming and 6 weeks of a control procedure in a randomized cross-over design.

Cognitive causes of social phobia: a critical appraisal.

This review examined critically studies issuing from the cognitive therapy (CT) model claiming to have unveiled cognitive causal factors of social phobia. Additionally, it examined outcome studies of CT-inspired interventions and other treatments having included measurements of cognitive constructs. Overall, we found no evidence consistently supporting the claim that social phobics are characterized by typical cognitive processes.