The Penn Psychoanalytic Treatment Collection: a set of complete and recorded psychoanalyses as a research resource.
From a set of seventeen complete and tape-recorded psychoanalyses, a sample of findings is presented: (a) the level of agreement of two clinical judges on the psychological health of these patients is adequate for the late sessions, but not for the early sessions; (b) the amount of change during psychoanalysis appears to be similar to that in the Menninger Foundation Psychotherapy Research Project; (c) psychiatric severity measures from the early sessions can yield a significant level of prediction of the later benefits from psychoanalysis. Finally, further research uses of this collection of psychoanalyses are suggested.
Luborsky
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA. Luborsky@landru.cpr.upenn.edu
Stuart
J
J
Friedman
S
S
Diguer
L
L
Seligman
D A
DA
Bucci
W
W
Pulver
S
S
Krause
E D
ED
Ermold
J
J
Davison
W T
WT
Woody
G
G
Mergenthaler
E
E
D000328:Adult; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D015588:Observer Variation; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016896:Treatment Outcome