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Which Neurotic Patients Are Offered Which Psychotherapy?
Author(s) -
Alexander David,
Eagles John
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
british journal of psychotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.442
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1752-0118
pISSN - 0265-9883
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0118.1990.tb01301.x
Subject(s) - psychology , neurosis , deliberate self harm , psychotherapist , neuroticism , psychiatry , psychotropic medication , supportive psychotherapy , alcohol abuse , marital status , clinical psychology , suicide prevention , poison control , mental health , medicine , psychoanalysis , personality , medical emergency , population , environmental health
SUMMARY. Of the 336 new cases of neurosis referred to a regional psychiatric service 166 (49%) were offered supportive, dynamic or behavioural psychotherapy. The most frequently provided treatment was the first (40%); 34% of patients were offered dynamic psychotherapy and the remainder (26 1 %) were allocated to behavioural psychotherapy. The factors related to the type of psychotherapy provided were diagnosis, duration of illness, the psychiatric team to which the patients had been referred, marital status and the distance the patients lived from the hospital. Sex, age, socio‐economic status, employment status and a history of alcohol abuse or of deliberate self harm had no association with the type of psychotherapy offered.