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Psychotherapy: from Freud to cognitive science
Author(s) -
Andrews Gavin
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1991.tb94061.x
Subject(s) - psychotherapist , anxiety , cognition , harm , placebo , clinical trial , cognitive behaviour therapy , psychology , depression (economics) , cognitive therapy , psychiatry , clinical psychology , medicine , alternative medicine , social psychology , pathology , economics , macroeconomics
A change in paradigm has occurred in psychotherapy. Dynamic psychotherapy has still not been shown to be better than placebo treatment or good clinical care. As harm can occur, patients should enter such therapy with caution. The cognitive behaviour therapies are newer and more efficient. They have been demonstrated to be better than placebo or good clinical care for anxiety and depression, and are of benefit in many less common disorders. Informative clinical trials are identified. Clinicians who treat patients with mental disorders should acquaint themselves with these techniques.