Am J Psychiatry 1990; 147:428-430
Copyright © 1990 by American Psychiatric Association
Whatever happened to intensive psychotherapy?
KZ Altshuler
Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235-9070.
Of 163 residency programs responding to a survey about training
requirements in long-term psychotherapy, more than 100 did not require that
any patients be seen more than once a week. Among 41 psychotherapy
protocols representing outcome-related research that were reported at an
annual meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, the studies
employing more than once-a-week treatment for 6 or more months were rare.
Intensive psychotherapy is clearly on the wane in training programs and in
psychotherapy research paradigms.
