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While the question of whether and how to study outcomes in psychoanalytic psychotherapy continues to be fiercely contested, the number of large-scale research studies of both short- and long-term psychodynamic and psychoanalytic treatments is growing. Although a central aim of mainstream experimental research studies is to investigate the effectiveness of particular treatments, increasingly the data are also being mined for information on a wide range of aspects of the psychotherapy process.
This digest collates recent research studies into the process and outcome of psychodynamic and psychoanalytic treatments. It includes large-scale studies by Leuzinger-Bohleber and colleagues, which have been used both to demonstrate the efficacy of long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy and to measure and evidence changes to patients’ inner worlds following psychoanalytic treatment. It also highlights both large and smaller studies, using qualitative, quantitative and mixed methodologies, which investigate a wide range of aspects of the psychoanalytic process. Finally, two recently published reviews of research into the effectiveness of child psychotherapy offer a helpful overview of the developments, as well as highlighting the gaps in this field.
Marinanne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Martin Hautzinger, Georg Fiedler, Wolfram Keller, Ulrich Lisa Kallenbach, Johannes Kaufhold, Mareike Ernst, Alexa Negele, Margerete Schoett, Helmut Küchenhoff, Felix Günther, Bernhard Rüger and Manfred Beute
Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, Sage Publications, 2019, Volume 64 (1): 47–58 DOI:
OBJECTIVE: For chronic depression, the effectiveness of brief psychotherapy has been limited. This study is the first comparing the effectiveness of long-term cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) and long-term psychoanalyt