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Chapter 18.Applications of Individual Supportive Psychotherapy to Specific Disorders

Efficacy and Indications
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    https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.books.9781615375233.gg18

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    Menninger Psychotherapy Research Project | Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorder Studies | Depressive Disorder Studies | Anxiety Disorder Studies | Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorder Studies | Personality Disorder Studies | Eating Disorder Studies | Medical Disorder Studies | Other Disorders: Body Dysmorphic Disorder | Substance Use Disorder Studies | Indications and Applications | Conclusion | References

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    Supportive psychotherapy, with its focus on a genuine, caring, and empathic patient-therapist relationship, has been increasingly recognized as a significant contributor to successful psychotherapy outcomes. It is likely that the supportive elements in all psychotherapies are the critical factors that produce positive patient change in psychotherapy. In fact in 1992, de Jonghe, Rijnierse, and Janssen identified the support-experience factor as one of two curative factors in classical psychoanalysis (its counterpart being the interpretation-insight factor):

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