TA Treatment of Depression: A Hermeneutic Single-Case Efficacy Design Study - 'Beatrice'

Abstract

This study is the sixth of a series of seven and belongs to the second Italian systematic replication of findings from previous series that investigatedthe effectiveness of a manualized transactional analysistreatment for depressionthrough Hermeneutic Single-Case Efficacy Design.The therapist was a white Italian woman with 10 years of clinical experience and the patient, Beatrice, was a 45-year old white Italian woman who attended sixteen sessions of transactional analysis psychotherapy. Beatrice satisfied DSM 5 criteria for Major Depressive Disorder, Anxious Distress, with Dependent and Histrionic Personality Traits. The judges evaluated the case as a good outcome: the depressive and anxious symptomatology clinically and reliably improved over the course of the therapy and these improvements weremaintained throughoutthe duration of thefollowup intervals. Furthermore, the patient reported significant change in her post-treatment interview and these changes were directly attributed to the therapy.Citation - APA format:Benelli, E., Vulpiani, F., Cavallero, G., Calvo, V., Mannarini, S., Palmieri, A. and Zanchetta, M. (2018). TA Treatment of Depression: A Hermeneutic Single-Case Efficacy Design Study - Beatrice. International Journal of Transactional Analysis Research & Practice, 9(2), 42-63 https://doi.org/10.29044/v9i2p42

TA Treatment of Depression: A Simplified Hermeneutic Single-Case Efficacy Design - The Case of “Margherita”

“…Recently, since the publication of the first Hermeneutic Single-Case Efficacy Design (HSCED) applied to transactional analysis (TA) treatment of depression (Widdowson, 2012a) there have been one direct replication of three single cases (Widdowson, 2012b(Widdowson, , 2012c(Widdowson, , 2013 and three Italian systematic replications of three single cases each (Benelli, Revello, Piccirillo, Mazzetti, Calvo, Palmieri, Sambin & Widdowson, 2016a;Benelli, Scottà, Barreca, Palmieri, Calvo, De Renoche, Colussi, Sambin, & Widdowson, 2016b;Benelli, Boschetti, Piccirillo, Quagliotti, Calvo, Palmieri, Sambin, & Widdowson, 2016c;Benelli, Moretti, Cavallero, Greco, Calvo, Mannarini, Palmieri & Widdowson, 2017a;Benelli, Filanti, Musso, Calvo, Mannarini, Palmieri & Widdowson, 2017b;Benelli, Bergamaschi, Capoferri, Morena, Calvo, Mannarini, Palmieri, Zanchetta & Widdowson, 2017c;Benelli, Procacci, Fornaro, Calvo, Mannarini, Palmieri & Zanchetta, 2018a;Benelli, Gentilesca, Boschetti, Piccirillo, Calvo, Mannarini, Palmieri & Zanchetta, 2018b;Benelli, Vulpiani, Cavallero, Calvo, Mannarini, Palmieri & Zanchetta, 2018c) aiming to recognise TA psychotherapy for depression as an Empirically Supported Treatment. Moreover, with the HSCED methodology Kerr (2013) evaluated TA treatment for emetophobia.…”