The estimated number of patients with cancer in this country is 10.5 million. Close to a million and a half are new cases, and it is estimated that 560,000 people die of cancer each year. 1 There is clearly a large group of cancer patients and their families at high risk for serious psychiatric illness. In this article, I focus on the advantages of a psychodynamic approach and address how this approach is helpful in the liaison function and psychotherapy of cancer patients and their... More>>

The practice of one human being helping another to feel better through the use of talk is as old as humanity itself. As a profession, however, psychiatry has existed for only 100 years. During that time, both the theory and the technique have evolved. Changes have been driven as often by politics and culture as by advances in knowledge. From the early days of psychoanalysis, many hoped that psychotherapy would be based in an empirical science, yet relatively little of its development has been... More>>

Overcoming Resistant Personality Disorders is a provocative and well-reasoned, yet frustrating volume. In it, the authors challenge various authorities on the subject; for example, they criticize the DSM for its failure to "officially endorse an underlying set of principles that would interrelate and differentiate the categories in terms of their deeper principles" and for its current Axis II categories. More>>

Both cognitive-behavioral 1-3 and pharmacological treatments for panic disorder have been found to be effective over the short term. Not all patients, however, can tolerate or fully respond to these approaches, and the effectiveness of these interventions over the long term remains unclear. More>>

Making Psychotherapy Work: Collaborating Effectively with Your Patient is an engaging book that will interest most practicing psychotherapists. More>>

It is notoriously difficult to capture in writing the essence of what constitutes ethical practice in contemporary psychotherapy. Authors who take on this daunting task face the potential pit-falls of presenting their ideas in an abstract manner that bores the reader and is clinically irrelevant or risks coming across as overly moralistic and preachy. More>>

There are hundreds of studies that show that pharmacotherapy is used to treat depression in adult and geriatric populations. There are far fewer studies that test the efficacy of psychotherapies and even fewer studies that focus on combined treatment for older patients. More>>

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PITTSBURGH -- For women with depression who achieved remission with interpersonal psychotherapy, a monthly therapy booster prevented recurrence over two years, researchers here reported. More>>

PITTSBURGH -- For women with depression who achieved remission with interpersonal psychotherapy, a monthly therapy booster prevented recurrence over two years, researchers here reported. More>>