Changes in the patient's level of insight in brief psychotherapy: Two pilot studies.

Abstract

These results are also to be reported in brief, in a broad article by Joseph Weiss, M.D., in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, in press, and in How Psychotherapy Works: Process and Technique, by Joseph Weiss, M.D., Guilford Press, 1993. The results of the second study described in this manuscript are mentioned in a footnote in the upcoming article in JAPA, and the book. This present article is the only written description containing the methodological details of any of these two pilot studies.

Assimilation in good- and poor-outcome cases of very brief psychotherapy for mild depression: An initial comparison

“…The APES concept of understanding/insight is broader than the psychoanalytic concept of insight; nevertheless, the findings are consonant with the psychoanalytic tenet that insight is essential for therapeutic change (CritsCristoph, Barber, Miller, & Beebe, 1993) as well as with evidence that higher levels of client insight are associated with better client outcomes (O'Conner, Edelstein, Berry, & Weiss, 1994). The relation between assimilation and affect represented in Figure 1 offers an account of the specific relation between understanding or insight and symptomatic improvement.…”

Patients’ unconscious plans for solving their problems

“…This may be illustrated by the following brief schematic report on the behavior of Mrs. C, a 26-year-old married social worker, during 2 For extensive quantitative empirical research supporting the explanatory power of these concepts, see Weiss et al (1986) and Weiss (1990Weiss ( , 1993a. See also Fretter (1984Fretter ( , 1995, Broitman (1985), Bugas (1986) Davilla (1992) Silberschatz and Curtis (1986), Silberschatz, Fretter, and Curtis (1986), Linsner (1987), Fretter, Bucci, Broitman, Silberschatz, andCurtis (1994), O'Connor, Edelstein, Berry, and Weiss (1994), and Norville, Sampson, and Weiss (1996). the first 100 sessions of her analysis.…”

Psychodynamic psychotherapy: A systematic review of techniques, indications and empirical evidence

“…Further research should address the complex interactions among interventions, patient's level of functioning, helping alliance and outcome (Luborsky, Barber, & Crits‐Christoph, 1990). Using reliable measures of transference empirical studies provided evidence that specific changes in transference patterns (mediating factor) are significantly related to outcome of psychodynamic psychotherapy (Crits‐Christoph & Luborsky, 1990; O'Connor, Edelstein, Berry, & Weiss, 1994). Improved patients showed greater change in their transference pattern than unimproved patients.…”