title: Psychodynamic therapies versus treatment as usual for depression.
abstract: This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows: To examine the effectiveness and acceptability of all psychodynamic therapies compared with treatment as usual/waiting list/attention placebo control conditions for acute depression.To examine the effectiveness and acceptability of different psychodynamic therapy models (drive/structural, relational and integrative analytic models) compared with treatment as usual/waiting list/attention placebo control conditions for acute depression.To examine the effectiveness and acceptability of all psychodynamic therapies compared with different types of comparator (standard care, no treatment, waiting list, attention placebo) for acute depression.
authors.affiliation: Academic Unit of Psychiatry, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: Theresa Hm
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Moore
authors.affiliation: Academic Unit of Psychiatry, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: Vivien
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Hunot
authors.affiliation: Academic Unit of Psychiatry, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: Philippa
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Davies
authors.affiliation: School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Caldwell
authors.affiliation: Cochrane Schizophrenia Group, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
authors.forename: Hannah
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.affiliation: School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: Glyn
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lewis
authors.affiliation: Academic Unit of Psychiatry, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: Rachel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Churchill