Am J Psychiatry 1986; 143:582-589
Copyright © 1986 by American Psychiatric Association
Comprehensive analysis of change after brief dynamic psychotherapy
MJ Horowitz, CR Marmar, DS Weiss, NB Kaltreider and NR Wilner
This report provides data on symptom levels by using group means as well as
categories of clinical relevance as they change over the course of
treatment and also examines change "beyond symptoms" as levels of adaptive
functioning. This approach allows a more comprehensive analysis of change
in a series of patients with pathological grief reactions treated with
brief dynamic psychotherapy. The different perspectives on outcome of the
patient, the evaluating clinician, the treating clinician, and independent
judges are compared. The findings from all perspectives indicate that major
symptom relief occurred in the majority of patients, with less change in
adaptive abilities.
