Evaluation of psychoanalytic psychotherapy outcome.
In a public psychotherapy clinic, the outcome of psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy was investigated in a controlled study. The patients formed a treatment and a non-treatment (with initial evaluation) group, and psychotherapy was evaluated after 4 months of therapy. MMPI, target symptoms, global evaluation and other clinical evaluations were used. A number of aspects of the results are discussed pointing both to the efficacy of psychotherapy and the relative spontaneous improvement of the untreated patient.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous; D012649:Self Concept