Affect-focused psychodynamic psychotherapy for depression and anxiety through the Internet: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT: Background. Psychodynamic psychotherapy is a psychological treatment approach that has a growing empirical base. Research has indicated an association between therapist-facilitated affective experience and outcome in psychodynamic therapy. Affect-phobia therapy (APT), as outlined by McCullough et al., is a psychodynamic treatment that emphasizes a strong focus on expression and experience of affect. This model has neither been evaluated for depression nor anxiety disorders in a randomized controlled trial. While Internet-delivered psychodynamic treatments for depression and generalized anxiety disorder exist, they have not been based on APT. The aim of this randomized controlled trial was to investigate the efficacy of an Internet-based, psychodynamic, guided self-help treatment based on A

SUBMITTER: Johansson R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3709106 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature