Subjective Change With Medical Student Therapists

Managed care is harmful to outpatient mental health services: A call for accountability.

“…Research on therapy phases supports the possibility that ultrabrief therapy capitalizes on the phase of treatment with most of the placebo-like benefits. Uhlenhuth and Duncan (1968) detected a pattern of dramatic subjective relief and reduction in symptoms that occurs in the first few sessions of psychotherapy—the same time period as the duration of most ultrabrief therapy. They identified that this pattern of relief is similar to the placebo response to treatment.…”

Reduction of children's symptomatology through reduction of parental, child-focused anxiety: An exploratory study.

“…Thus the "spread of psychotherapeutic effects" (Fisher and Mendell, 1958) was not only from treated parent to untreated child as has been previously documented for child guidance treatment (Gluck, et al, 1964), but also from one parent to the other. The reduction in parental anxiety found in the present study is consistent with many previous findings that anxiety and other feelings of emotional distress may decrease markedly after brief therapy (cf., Uhlenhuth and Duncan, 1968;Jacobs et al, 1968;Cattell et al, 1966).…”

The Natural History of Neuroses: Problems of Methods and Substance

“…Studies of outpatients (14, 21, 28, 32, 51) mental hospital inpatients (29,50) as well as untreated patients (15) and patients receiving psychotherapy (62) reveal that long duration of symptoms before contact with psychiatric facilities is associated with a guarded prognosis. Somatic complaints in treated (56,60) and untreated patients (32,65) are also associated with a lower chance of recovery.…”

“…Depressive symptoms are often found to be remitting (14,19,33,50,53,62). Initial high anxiety or discomfort is a good prognostic pointer (21, 41,57), and this probably reflects acute self-limited crises.…”

“…The acknowledgement by the patient of his own role in the emotional disturbance is often associated with a favourable prognosis (48, 49,57,58). Another factor is the presence of help-seeking behaviours of the patient in distress (4,55,58,62). Other variables such as adequate I.Q.…”