What are the neural circuits activated by cognitive behavioral therapy?
A new study published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics provides new insights on how psychotherapy works. Cognitive...
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When antidepressant drugs cause depression
A new study published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics provides alarming data on the likelihood that antidepressant...
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When antidepressant drugs should not be used
A paper in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics by Giovanni Fava, MD (University of Bologna) provides a critical...
Read moreDetailsParoxetine, an antidepressant drug, may provoke emotional disorders that persist after discontinuation
Three patients (two men and a woman) were referred to the Affective Disorders Program of the University of Bologna for...
Read moreDetailsIs a hormone the key to understanding borderline personality disorder?
In the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics a group of German investigators is reporting on the potential effects of...
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What is better for troubled adolescents? Psychodynamic therapy or family therapy?
In the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics a group of Greek investigators is reporting on a study exploring the...
Read moreDetailsBrief treatments based on psychoanalytic principles may change the brain
In an article published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics the effects of brief psychodynamic psychotherapy on the...
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A new treatment for borderline personality disorder
A group of Swiss investigators reports on a new type of psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder in the current issue...
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The long-term effects of psychotherapy on borderline personality disorder
A new study published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics has analyzed the long-term effects of psychotherapy on...
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A new intervention to improve well-being in people with psychiatric disorders
The benefits of incorporating approaches from positive psychology into existing understandings of mental health problems have recently been promoted by...
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American Psychiatric Association’s DSM Task Force found to have major conflicts of interest
The revision process for and recent publication of the DSM-5 initiated debates about the widening of diagnostic boundaries. The pharmaceutical...
Read moreDetailsDialectical behavior therapy is a new method for overcoming post-traumatic stress disorder
Dialectical behavior therapy , a psychotherapeutic strategy that has been used in borderline personality disorder, may also be useful in...
Read moreDetailsIs a deranged hormone behind combat post-traumatic stress disorder?
A paper published in the current issue of psychotherapy and psychosomatics provides a new hypothesis concerned with the role of...
Read moreDetailsHow frequent are nightmares under psychological distress?
A study published in the current issue of psychotherapy and psychosomatics provides data concerned with the prevalence of nightmares disorder...
Read moreDetailsPsychotherapy may fix serotonin receptors better than antidepressant drugs
A paper published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics provides new findings on the role of psychotherapy in...
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