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Long‐term changes after brief dynamic psychotherapy: symptomatic versus dynamic assessments
Author(s) -
Høglend P.,
Sørlie T.,
Sørbye Ø.,
Heyerdahl O.,
Amlo S.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1992.tb03246.x
Subject(s) - term (time) , psychotherapist , psychology , medicine , psychiatry , quantum mechanics , physics
Dynamic change in psychotherapy, as measured by theory‐related or mode‐specific instruments, have been criticized for being too intercorrelated with symptomatic change measures. In this study, long‐term changes after brief dynamic psychotherapy were studied in 45 moderately disturbed neurotic patients by a reliable outcome battery. The factor structure of all the change variables suggested that they tapped 2 distinct and stable sources of variance: dynamic and symptomatic change. The categories of overall dynamic change were different from categories of change on the Global Assessment Scale. A small systematic difference was found between the categories of overall dynamic change and the categories of target complaints change also, due to false solutions of dynamic conflicts.