Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy faces skepticism in psychiatry, yet it remains vital for understanding patients' narratives and enhancing therapeutic relationships.

Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy has transformative potential as a groundbreaking approach to mental health that enhances healing through psychedelic experiences.

Effective psychodynamic strategies can help to engage difficult patients in psychotherapy, enhancing treatment outcomes and fostering meaningful therapeutic alliances.

Discover 6 essential steps for psychiatrists to enhance the effectiveness of CBT and DBT in treating young patients.

The strong emphasis on neuroscience in the 1990s and early 2000s is now giving way to a new psychiatric pluralism, one that increasingly views psychotherapy as real treatment and psychosocial factors as fundamental to understanding the causes and basic nature of psychopathology.

Explore the evolving role of psychotherapy in psychiatry in our May theme! We want to hear about your insights, tips, and case studies.

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“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”

How should psychotherapy supervisors go about their supervision? Sharon Packer, MD, reviews Supervising Individual Psychotherapy (The Guide to “Good Enough”) and offers her insight into how the book can guide the future of psychotherapy supervision.

Here are 4 means of coping with the diagnostic uncertainty of bipolar mixed states.

Check out the new column, CREATIVE MINDS: Psychotherapeutic Approaches and Insights!

While still practiced, psychoanalysis has become an infrequent treatment modality because of its cost, limited insurance reimbursement, and the desire of patients to find quicker and less burdensome treatment methods.

Art informs life and life informs art.

Art imitates life imitates art.

Psychedelics may catalyze rapid improvements in mental health, but they do so firmly rooted in what we already know about the efficacy of psychotherapy.

A look at the different types of mental health disorders and the role of psychodynamic psychotherapy.

For many psychiatric conditions, psychotherapy, not medication, is the preferred first-line treatment.

Patients should be confident about what psychiatric care offers, regardless of whether they utilize any specific treatments, or even recognize that they are receiving therapeutic care.

Clinical trial compares outcomes with behavioral activation psychotherapy or antidepressant medication for depression in patients with heart failure.

The experts weighed in on a wide variety of psychiatric issues for the January 2024 issue of Psychiatric Times.

From sleep disturbances in ADHD to psychotherapy for treatment-resistant depression, here are highlights from the week in Psychiatric Times.

"Evidence indicates that psychotherapy may yield greater durability of treatment gains than pharmacotherapy."

When the media repeatedly portrays such tepid ambivalence about psychotherapy, millions of suffering individuals get a vague and misleading impression of this treatment.

Social anxiety disorder: an underappreciated and misunderstood condition.