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Effectiveness of Time-limited Therapy

Carried Out by Trainees Comparison of Two Methods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

B. Brockman ,
A. Poynton ,
A. Ryle  and
J. P. Watson
B. Brockman
Affiliation:
Midland Centre for Forensic Psychiatry, All Saints Hospital (previously Guy's Hospital)
A. Poynton
Affiliation:
Guy's Hospital
A. Ryle*
Affiliation:
St Thomas' Hospital
J. P. Watson
Affiliation:
Guy's Hospital
*
∗St Thomas' Hospital, London SE1 7EH
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Abstract

Common neurotic and personality disorders account for widespread personal restriction and suffering. The need for effective, economically feasible treatment methods is widely acknowledged and the range of conditions successfully treated by available methods needs to be established. This study is concerned with two methods of brief psychotherapy; our aim was the essentially pragmatic one of investigating how far relatively long-term NHS out-patients with neurotic, personality, and interpersonal problems could be successfully and economically treated by the kind of therapists available in NHS settings. It is generally believed by psychoanalytically-oriented therapists that brief therapy requires high levels of training and experience; this is tested here, in that all the therapies were strictly time-limited, and none of the therapists had completed advanced training.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 151 , Issue 5 , November 1987 , pp. 602 - 610
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Copyright © 1987 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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