ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020
Improvement in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Depression: A Qualitative Study of the Patients' Perspective.
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- A Network Analysis of Cognitive Flexibility, Emotion Regulation, and Symptom Severity in Patients with Major Depression.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2026Article
- Ingredients for Success: What Clients and Informal Caregivers Value in Depression Treatment A Concept Mapping Study.Journal of clinical psychology · 2026Article
- Clinical and Cost-Effectiveness of Blended Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or Psychodynamic Therapy Versus Face-to-Face Psychotherapy for Depression (BLENDED Study): Protocol for a Pragmatic, Multicenter, Assessor-Blinded Randomized Controlled Noninferiority Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- "It takes time to see the whole picture": patients' views on improvement in cognitive behavioral therapy and psychodynamic therapy after three years.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Digging down or scratching the surface: how patients use metaphors to describe their experiences of psychotherapy.BMC psychiatry · 2021Article
- The Synergistic Process of Improvement in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Major Depression.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
The patient's perspective on improvement in psychotherapy is crucial for tailoring the therapy he or she is receiving. The present study aimed at exploring the factors aiding and the patients' experiences of improvement in time-limited psychodynamic psychotherapy for depression. Semi-structured, in-depth interviews were conducted with ten adult patients who received up to 28 sessions of manualized psychodynamic psychotherapy in the Norwegian study "Mechanisms of change in psychotherapy" (the MOP study). The post-therapy interviews addressed the participants' experiences from therapy. The data were analyzed with thematic content analysis and hermeneutic interpretation. The analysis identified four helpful dimensions: "Therapist activities" comprised supporting and acknowledging, advising and offering tips for everyday life, questioning and pressuring. "Patient activities" included opening up, caring for oneself and showing agency. "Facilitators" for improvement were learning from therapy, learning to receive therapy and agreed goals. "Achievements" comprised new perspectives and understandings, increased self-awareness and mastery and changed thinking and feeling. Improvements from psychodynamic therapy seemed reliant on the degree to which the therapy could activate and be relevant to the patients' everyday life. Tailoring therapy for patients with depression should link the focus on symptoms and ways of thinking and feeling with their life circumstances.
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