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"Gold Standards," Plurality and Monocultures: The Need for Diversity in Psychotherapy.

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A meta-analysis of psychodynamic psychotherapy outcomes: evaluating the effects of research-specific procedures

scientific article published in September 2012

A unified protocol for the transdiagnostic psychodynamic treatment of anxiety disorders: an evidence-based approach

scientific article published on 30 December 2013

Alexithymia and script-driven emotional imagery in healthy female subjects: no support for deficiencies in imagination

scientific article published on 4 November 2010

Alexithymia as a predictor of outcome of psychodynamically oriented inpatient treatment

scientific article published on 01 May 2009

An exploration of the role of defensive psychopathology in adolescent suicidal ideation and behavior

scientific article published on 01 September 2011

Are psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapies effective?: A review of empirical data

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Bias Toward Psychodynamic Therapy: Framing the Problem and Working Toward a Solution

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Borderline personality disorder.

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Borderline personality organization and psychopathic traits in nonclinical adolescents: Relationships of identity diffusion, primitive defense mechanisms and reality testing with callousness and impulsivity traits

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

Borderline personality organization in violent offenders: correlations of identity diffusion and primitive defense mechanisms with antisocial features, neuroticism, and interpersonal problems

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

Changes in Personality Functioning After Inpatient Psychodynamic Therapy: A Dimensional Approach to Personality Disorders

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Changes in implicit and explicit self-esteem following cognitive and psychodynamic therapy in social anxiety disorder.

scientific article published on 6 June 2013

Changes of attachment characteristics during psychotherapy of patients with social anxiety disorder: Results from the SOPHO-Net trial

scientific article published on 8 March 2018

Cognitive-Behavioral and Psychodynamic Therapy in Adolescents with Social Anxiety Disorder: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial

scientific article published on 12 June 2018

Cognitive-behavioral therapy and psychodynamic psychotherapy: techniques, efficacy, and indications

scientific article published on January 2006

Comment on: Molsberger AF, Mau J, Pawelec DB, Winkler J. Does acupuncture improve the orthopedic management of chronic low back pain? Pain 2002; 99:579-87

scientific article published on 01 July 2003

Cost-of-illness studies and cost-effectiveness analyses in anxiety disorders: a systematic review

scientific article published on 03 September 2008

Depression as a risk factor for mortality in individuals with diabetes: a meta-analysis of prospective studies

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Developing a prototype for short-term psychodynamic (supportive-expressive) therapy: An empirical study with the psychotherapy process Q-set

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Different Standards When Assessing the Evidence for Psychodynamic Therapy? Response to Cristea et al.

scientific article published in November 2017

Do Patient Characteristics Predict Outcome of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Social Anxiety Disorder?

scientific article published on 19 January 2016

Do personality traits predict outcome of psychodynamically oriented psychosomatic inpatient treatment beyond initial symptoms?

scientific article published on 22 August 2014

Does pharmacotherapy really have as enduring effects as psychotherapy in anxiety disorders? Some doubts

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Double standards in psychotherapy research

scientific article published on 18 November 2010

Dr. Abbass et al. reply:.

scientific article published in November 2013

Drop-outs in psychotherapy: a change of perspective

Drs. Leichsenring, Salzer, and Leibing Reply

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

Effectiveness of long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy: a meta-analysis

scientific article published in October 2008

Effects of inpatient psychotherapy on the stability of alexithymia characteristics

scientific article published on 21 May 2008

Emotions as wishes and beliefs

scientific article published in October 2002

Empirically supported methods of short-term psychodynamic therapy in depression - towards an evidence-based unified protocol

scientific article published on 12 August 2014

Equivalence and non-inferiority testing in psychotherapy research

scientific article published on 11 May 2018

Equivalence testing: reversed hypotheses, margins, and the need for controlling researcher allegiance

scientific article published on 21 November 2018

Equivalence? Clarifications Required

scientific article published on 6 December 2017

Evidenz für psychodynamische Langzeittherapie

Excess costs of social anxiety disorder in Germany

scientific article published on 2 February 2017

Factor Structure of the Borderline Personality Inventory in Adolescents

article published in 2004

Further Evidence for Short-Term Psychodynamic Therapy in Major Depressive Disorder

scientific article published on January 2017

Inadequate Reporting of a Randomized Trial Comparing Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Psychodynamic Therapy for Depression

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Interpersonal subtypes and change of interpersonal problems in the treatment of patients with generalized anxiety disorder: A pilot study

scientific article published on 01 September 2011

Interpersonal subtypes within generalized anxiety disorder

scientific article published in May 2008

Is Alexithymia Associated with Specific Mental Disorders

scientific article published on November 28, 2011

Is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy the Gold Standard for Psychotherapy?: The Need for Plurality in Treatment and Research

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Let’s Distinguish Relative and Absolute Efficacy to Move Psychotherapy Research Forward

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS): Optimal cut points for remission and response in a German sample.

scientific article published on 11 February 2018

Long-Term Effects of Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy in Generalized Anxiety Disorder: 12-Month Follow-up

scientific article published on August 1, 2011

Long-Term Outcome and Non-Response in Psychotherapy: Are We Short-Sighted

scientific article published on 27 May 2016

Long-term cost-effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy versus psychodynamic therapy in social anxiety disorder

scientific article published on 18 July 2016

Long-term outcome of psychodynamic therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy in social anxiety disorder

scientific article published in October 2014

Long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy in complex mental disorders: update of a meta-analysis

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Mood and anxiety disorders: differences between long- and short-term psychotherapies in work ability, but not employment

scientific article published on 01 November 2008

Multimodal Psychotherapeutic Inpatient Therapy of Depression Is Successful in Patients With High Cytokine Production

scientific article published on 02 November 2020

No association between catechol-O-methyltransferase val158met polymorphism and alexithymia

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

No psychotherapy monoculture for anxiety disorders

scientific article published on 11 May 2017

On Mechanisms of Change in Psychodynamic Therapy.

scientific article published in March 2018

Optimal Cut Points for Remission and Response for the German Version of the Social Phobia Anxiety Inventory (SPAI)

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Partner-related attachment as a moderator of outcome in patients with social anxiety disorder-a comparison between short-term cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic therapy

scientific article published in December 2017

Patterns of interpersonal problems and their improvement in depressive and anxious patients treated with psychoanalytic therapy

scientific article published on January 1, 2010

Patterns of interpersonal problems in borderline personality disorder

scientific article published in February 2013

Psychoanalytic-Interactional Therapy versus Psychodynamic Therapy by Experts for Personality Disorders: A Randomized Controlled Efficacy-Effectiveness Study in Cluster B Personality Disorders

scientific article published on 26 January 2016

Psychodynamic Therapy: As Efficacious as Other Empirically Supported Treatments? A Meta-Analysis Testing Equivalence of Outcomes

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Psychodynamic psychotherapy for children and adolescents: a meta-analysis of short-term psychodynamic models.

scientific article published on August 2013

Psychodynamic psychotherapy for posttraumatic stress disorder related to childhood abuse—Principles for a treatment manual

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

Psychodynamic psychotherapy for social phobia: a treatment manual based on supportive-expressive therapy

scientific article published in January 2007

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

scientific article published on June 2007

Psychodynamic therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy in social anxiety disorder: a multicenter randomized controlled trial

scientific article published in July 2013

Psychodynamic therapy meets evidence-based medicine: a systematic review using updated criteria

scientific article published on 30 June 2015

Psychodynamic therapy of obsessive-compulsive disorder: principles of a manual-guided approach

scientific article published on October 2016

Psychodynamic therapy: a well-defined concept with increasing evidence

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Psychosomatic inpatient treatment: Real-world effectiveness, response rates and the helping alliance

scientific article published on 15 June 2019

Psychotherapy Versus Pharmacotherapy of Depression: What's the Evidence?

scientific article published in January 2016

Quality of depressive experiences in borderline personality disorders: differences between patients with borderline personality disorder and patients with higher levels of personality organization

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

Randomized controlled versus naturalistic studies: a new research agenda

scientific article published in January 2004

Re: Jing et al., the efficacy of cognitive behavioural therapy in somatoform disorders and medically unexplained physical symptoms: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

scientific article published on 19 February 2019

Reduced amygdalar and hippocampal size in adults with generalized social phobia

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Relapse rates after psychotherapy for depression - stable long-term effects? A meta-analysis

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Reliability, validity and responsiveness of the EQ-5D in assessing and valuing health status in patients with social phobia

scientific article published on 23 December 2013

Replicability in Psychotherapy Research: Uncontrolled Risk Factors and Proposed Measures

scientific article published on 15 October 2016

Response to Clark

scientific article published on 01 November 2013

Response to Hofmann et al

scientific article published on 01 April 2015

Results of psychodynamically oriented trauma-focused inpatient treatment for women with complex posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and borderline personality disorder (BPD)

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

SOPHO-NET - a research network on psychotherapy for social phobia

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Short-term cost-effectiveness of psychodynamic therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy in social anxiety disorder: Results from the SOPHO-NET trial

scientific article published on April 2015

Short-term psychodynamic psychotherapies for common mental disorders

scientific article (published 2014-07-01)

Short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy in generalized anxiety disorder: a randomized, controlled trial

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Short-term psychodynamic therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder: A manual-guided approach to treating the "inhibited rebel"

scientific article published on 26 July 2017

Social Anxiety Disorder.

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Social anxieties in a clinical sample

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Stable therapeutic effects thanks to psychodynamic therapy

scientific article published in May 2009

The Effects of Waiting for Treatment: A Meta-Analysis of Waitlist Control Groups in Randomized Controlled Trials for Social Anxiety Disorder

scientific article published on 22 July 2016

The Evidence for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy-Reply.

scientific article published in February 2018

The Göttingen study of psychoanalytic therapy: first results.

scientific article published in April 2005

The costs of social anxiety disorder: the role of symptom severity and comorbidities

scientific article published on 24 April 2014

The course of PTSD in naturalistic long-term studies: high variability of outcomes. A systematic review

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The current state of the empirical evidence for psychoanalysis: a meta-analytic approach

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The effectiveness of psychoanalytic-interactional psychotherapy in borderline personality disorder

scientific article published in January 2010

The effectiveness of psychoanalytic-interactional therapy in borderline personality disorder: a study of clinical data

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The effectiveness of psychodynamic therapy and cognitive behavior therapy in the treatment of personality disorders: a meta-analysis

scientific article (publication date: July 2003)

The efficacy of psychodynamic therapy: a controversy

scientific article published in January 2013

The efficacy of short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy in specific psychiatric disorders: a meta-analysis

scientific article published in December 2004

The emerging evidence for long-term psychodynamic therapy

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The empirical status of psychodynamic psychotherapy - an update: Bambi's alive and kicking

scientific article published on 28 March 2015

The influence of psychodynamically oriented therapists' attachment representations on outcome and alliance in inpatient psychotherapy [corrected].

scientific article published in March 2010

The prospective long-term course of adult depression in general practice and the community. A systematic literature review

scientific article published on 16 October 2013

Therapist effects on outcome and alliance in inpatient psychotherapy

scientific article published on 01 March 2008

To Be or Not to Be Improved: Patients' Perception of Symptom Improvement - Linking the SCL-90-R to Patient-Rated Global Improvement in a Large Real-World Treatment Sample

scientific article published on 30 July 2020

Tolerance of ambiguity: text analytic vs self-report measures in two nonclinical groups

scientific article published on 01 June 2007

Toward a paradigm shift in treatment and research of mental disorders

scientific article published on 02 September 2019

Towards an evidence-based unified psychodynamic protocol for emotional disorders.

scientific article published on 11 November 2017

Transfer of manualized Short Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (STPP) for social anxiety disorder into clinical practice: results from a cluster-randomised controlled trial

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Transfer of manualized Short Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (STPP) for social phobia into clinical practice: study protocol for a cluster-randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on June 8, 2011

Trauma-focused psychodynamic therapy and STAIR Narrative Therapy of post-traumatic stress disorder related to childhood maltreatment: trial protocol of a multicentre randomised controlled trial assessing psychological, neurobiological and health eco

scientific article published on 17 December 2020

Trauma-focused psychodynamic therapy and STAIR Narrative Therapy of post-traumatic stress disorder related to childhood maltreatment: trial protocol of a multicentre randomised controlled trial assessing psychological, neurobiological and health eco

scientific article published in 2020

Treating post-traumatic stress disorder by resource activation in Cambodia

scientific article published on June 2016

Typical symptom change patterns and their predictors in patients with social anxiety disorder: A latent class analysis

scientific article published on 22 February 2020

Vom Sinn des Verfahrenskonzepts und der Verfahrensvielfalt – und warum das Baukasten-System in der Psychotherapie nicht funktioniert

scientific article published on 22 July 2019

WIFA-k: Ein neues Messinstrument zur zeitökonomischen Erfassung allgemeiner Wirkfaktoren nach Grawe

scientific article published on 01 July 2013

What do we know today about the prospective long-term course of social anxiety disorder? A systematic literature review

scientific article published on 27 August 2013

What to conclude from a non-randomized clinical trial comparing dialectical behavior therapy and mentalization-based treatment in patients with borderline personality disorder?

scientific article published on 19 September 2019

Written Exposure Therapy vs Cognitive Processing Therapy

[Alexithymia and specific relationship patterns in a clinical sample]

scientific article published on 01 January 2011

[Direct Costs of Social Phobia in Adolescents and Cost-Effectiveness of Psychotherapy]

scientific article published on 31 October 2018

[Effects of traumatic stress]

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

[Psychotherapy and evidence-based medicine (EBM)--randomized controlled vs. naturalistic studies: is there only one gold standard?]

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

[Results of inpatient psychiatric and psychotherapeutic treatment of patients with schizophrenia, schizoaffective and other psychotic disorders]

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

[Results of psychoanalytic long-term therapy in specific diagnostic groups: improvement in symptoms and interpersonal relationships]

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

[Short-Term Psychodynamic Therapy in Depression - An Evidence-Based Unified Protocol]

scientific article published on 18 November 2015

[The effectiveness of psychodynamic therapy. A review using criteria of evidence-based medicine]

scientific article published on 01 January 2002

[The generalized anxiety disorder--disease pattern, diagnostics and therapy]

scientific article published on 01 January 2002

[The phenomenology and psychodynamics of affects in borderline patients]

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

[The relationship between interpersonal subtypes and the modification of interpersonal problems in psychotherapy inpatients]

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

[The relationship between the experience and success of inpatient psychotherapy treatment among children and adolescents]

scientific article published on 01 May 2008

[The self-concept of patients with Social Anxiety Disorder: manifestation and change through psychotherapy ]

scientific article published on 01 January 2014