title: Open trial of psychodynamic psychotherapy for panic disorder: a pilot study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This report contains preliminary data from an open trial of brief psychodynamic psychotherapy for panic disorder.
  
  
  METHODS
  Fourteen patients with primary DSM-IV panic disorder completed a 24-session, twice-weekly course of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Other psychiatric treatment was not permitted throughout the 12-week treatment period and the 6-month follow-up. Symptoms were assessed at baseline, treatment termination, and 6-month posttermination follow-up (40 weeks).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Statistically significant, clinically meaningful improvements appeared in panic, depression, anxiety, and functional impairment both at treatment termination and at 6-month follow-up.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Psychodynamic monotherapy can be used successfully to retain and treat patients with panic disorder. Psychodynamic interventions warrant further study for patients with panic disorder.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College, Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA. bmilrod@med.cornell.edu
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Milrod
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Busch
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Leon
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shapiro
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aronson
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Roiphe
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rudden
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Singer
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Goldman
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Richter
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Shear
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016584:Panic Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D011614:Psychotherapy, Brief / Q000379:methods; D016896:Treatment Outcome