Patient characteristics and outcome in psychotherapy and behavior therapy.

Abstract

Ninety-four psychoncurolic or personality disordered patients received 4 months of analytically oriented psychotherapy, behavior therapy, or waiting list treatment. Neither active treatment was more effective than the other with any type of symptom (including affective ones), although both were more consistently effective than the wailing list. With psychotherapy, relatively greater success was associated with less overall pathology on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and higher socioeconomic status. Psychotherapy was least effective with patients who scored high on the Hysteria and Psychopathic Deviate scales. There was also a strong but nonsignificant trend for more improvement in psychotherapy patients who were younger, female, married, later born, more intelligent, and from smaller families. In contrast, behavior therapy was more effective with those who scored high on the Hysteria and Mania scales and seemed to be effective with a broader range of patients.

Short-term group psychotherapy: Who succeeds, who fails?

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Psychological interventions for antisocial personality disorder

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