Neural correlates of emotional interference in social anxiety disorder.

Disorder-relevant but task-unrelated stimuli impair cognitive performance in social anxiety disorder (SAD); however, time course and neural correlates of emotional interference are unknown. The present study investigated time course and neural basis of emotional interference in SAD using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Patients with SAD and healthy controls performed an emotional stroop task which allowed examining interference effects on the current and the succeeding trial.

Long-term outcome of psychodynamic therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy in social anxiety disorder.

Objective: Relatively few studies have examined the long-term outcome of psychotherapy in social anxiety disorder. The authors previously reported findings of a clinical trial comparing cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), psychodynamic therapy, and a wait-list control. The purpose of the present study was to follow the participants' status over the ensuing 24 months.

Brain activation during anticipatory anxiety in social anxiety disorder.

Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety during expectation of performance-related situations is an important feature of the psychopathology of social anxiety disorder (SAD). The neural basis of anticipatory anxiety in SAD has not been investigated in controlled studies. The current study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate the neural correlates during the anticipation of public and evaluated speaking vs a control condition in 17 SAD patients and 17 healthy control subjects.

Psychodynamic therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy in social anxiety disorder: a multicenter randomized controlled trial.

OBJECTIVE Various approaches to cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) have been shown to be effective for social anxiety disorder. For psychodynamic therapy, evidence for efficacy in this disorder is scant. The authors tested the efficacy of psychodynamic therapy and CBT in social anxiety disorder in a multicenter randomized controlled trial.

[Psychological interventions in surgical care: a narrative review of current meta-analytic evidence].

Studies investigating the effects of adjunctive psychological interventions to surgical routine care are summarized as a narrative review of existing meta-analyses. Primary studies evaluate the effects of the provision of information, supportive approaches, coping skills training, behavioural instructions, cognitive-behavioural strategies, relaxation, and hypnosis. The meta-analyses include studies of different methodological quality, also considering non-randomized trials, and indicate small to large effects depending on the type of intervention and outcome measure.

[Psychodynamic short-term group treatment for social phobia: description of the treatment concept and a case study].

Based upon the concept of supportive-expressive therapy (SET), we developed a psychodynamic group treatment manual for social phobia, with a special focus on the patients' individual core conflictual relationship themes, their universality, as well as interventions promoting group processes and therapeutic factors of group therapy. We introduce the new concept and report results of a pilot case study (N=8). Analyses revealed a pre-post-treatment effect size of g=0.

[Psychosocial interventions in somatic diseases].

The literature dealing with the topic of this paper seems almost unmanageable. Accordingly, a schema to sort research results is proposed discriminating goal population, service model, indication as well as the treatment model and setting of psychosocial interventions. The state of the art is exemplarily described by testing the integration of psychosocial research results into current guidelines for the treatment of somatic diseases.