title: Psychotherapy of schizophrenia: an empirical investigation of the relationship of process to outcome.
abstract: The Boston Psychotherapy Study found no major differences in the effects of insight-oriented and supportive psychotherapies in the treatment of schizophrenia. The authors of the current study looked beyond the assignments to those treatment designations and used blindly rated transcripts of tape-recorded sessions to examine the relationship of therapist interventions and patient outcomes at 2 years. They found significant relationships between skillfully conducted psychodynamic exploration and greater improvements in negative symptom areas of schizophrenia. The authors note the limitations and implications of these findings for clinical practice and research.
authors.affiliation: Psychosocial Research Program, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA 02178-9106.
authors.forename: L L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Glass
authors.forename: H M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Katz
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Schnitzer
authors.forename: P H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Knapp
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Frank
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Gunderson
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D009629:Person-Centered Psychotherapy; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000628:therapy*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D013637:Tape Recording