Word: treatment
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...apartment would stir interest under any circumstances. But it is especially notable since the photographer is the subject's wife Yelena Bonner. Taken in October of last year, the picture was released to mark her husband's 65th birthday this week. Bonner, who is in the U.S. for medical treatment until June 2, used the occasion to express the "hope that my husband will be free and would enjoy at least the rights of other citizens of the country in which he was born, lived all his life and for which he worked." Meanwhile, Bonner celebrated another "kind...
Some 240 patients and 28 therapists are involved in the ongoing project at three sites: the University of Pittsburgh; the University of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City; and George Washington University in Washington. The study compares the effectiveness of two forms of brief psychotherapy with treatment by a standard antidepressant drug, imipramine. The drug got quicker results, but the talk therapies caught up after three months. By the end of the 16-week test period, all three treatments had eliminated serious symptoms of depression in more than half the patients...
...only a six-page summary of initial findings has been released. Describing the interim results last week at the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting in Washington, the coordinator of the project at NIMH, Irene Elkin, said there is no evidence that drug treatment is any more effective than cognitive behavior therapy or interpersonal psychotherapy. Those therapies were chosen because they are commonly used for depression and can be readily taught to therapists from official manuals. Says Morris Parloff, a retired psychologist who helped frame the study: "We picked them because they are brief and very definable, from different approaches...
Unlike Freudian treatment, which is psychodynamic and concerned with the genesis of unconscious conflict, the two talk therapies are straight-from-the- shoulder approaches dealing with the patient's current problems. Cognitive behavior therapy, the creation of Psychiatrist Aaron Beck, assumes that depression is the result of disordered patterns of thinking and tries to get patients to drop unrealistically negative views. Interpersonal psychotherapy, developed by the New Haven-Boston Collaborative Depression Project, attempts to reassure patients and improve their relationships...
...study included a control group of patients who received placebos instead of imipramine, along with verbal support and encouragement by psychiatrists. % In this group, 29% of patients lost their serious symptoms, although they had no treatment. Many depressions wax and wane or clear up on their own, and the sheer act of deciding to enter a therapy program may sometimes be more beneficial than the therapy itself. The way to catch any such brief psychological boost is in follow-up studies. The NIMH project is testing patients after six, twelve and 18 months, with the end of the tests...