Missed opportunity to rectify or withdraw a flawed metaanalysis of longer-term psychodynamic psychotherapy

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 53-54

  Coyne, James C ^a,c   Bhar, Sunil S ^d   Pignotti, Monica ^b   Tovote, K Annika ^c   Beck, Aaron T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; COGNITIVE THERAPY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; INTERNAL VALIDITY; LETTER; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

EID: 78349245977     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000317537     Document Type: Letter

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