Psychodynamic psychotherapy outcome for generalized anxiety disorder.

摘要

Dr. Falk Leichsenring and his colleagues report the results of a methodologically rigorous randomized, controlled trial of supportive-expressive psychodynamic psychotherapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for generalized anxiety disorder in this issue of the Journal (1). The therapies were balanced for time, frequency, and therapist training. The investigators are to be praised for their scientific integrity in forthrightly presenting several findings that favor CBT over the psychodynamic therapy that they have championed-never an easy task. Dr. Leichsenring is well known for his meticulous reviews of psychodynamic psychotherapy outcome (2, 3), an effort undertaken in an attempt to delineate an evidence base for psychodynamic psychotherapy.