Outcome of Psychoanalytic and Cognitive-Behavioural Long-Term Therapy withChronically Depressed Patients: A Controlled Trial with Preferential and RandomizedAllocation

摘要

Objective:For chronic depression, the effectiveness of brief psychotherapy has been limited. This study is the first comparing the effectiveness of long-term cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) and long-term psychoanalytic therapy (PAT) of chronically depressed patients and the effects of preferential or randomized allocation.