Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Martin Hautzinger, Georg Fiedler, Wolfram Keller, Ulrich Bahrke, Lisa Kallenbach, Johannes Kaufhold, Mareike Ernst, Alexa Negele, Margerete Schoett, Helmut Küchenhoff, Felix Günther, Bernhard Rüger, Manfred Beutel
OBJECTIVE: For chronic depression, the effectiveness of brief psychotherapy has been limited. This study is the first comparing the effectiveness of long-term cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) and long-term psychoanalytic therapy (PAT) of chronically depressed patients and the effects of preferential or randomized allocation. METHODS: A total of 252 adults met the inclusion criteria (aged 21-60 years, major depression, dysthymia, double depression for at least 24 months, Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptoms [QIDS] >9, Beck Depression Inventory II [BDI] >17, informed consent, not meeting exclusion criteria)...
January 2019: Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. Revue Canadienne de Psychiatrie