Designs for Studying the Effectiveness of Long-Term Psychoanalytic Treatments: Balancing level of Evidence and Acceptability to Patients

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 361-387

  de Jonghe, Frans ^a,b   de Maat, Saskia ^b,c   Barber, Jacques P ^d   Abbas, Allan ^e   Luyten, Patrick ^f   Gomperts, Wouter ^a,b,c   Swinkels, Jan ^a   Dekker, Jack ^g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Dutch Psychoanalytical Society   (Netherlands)

^c Dutch Psychoanalytical Institute   (Netherlands)

^d ADELPHI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^g VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^h Arkin Mental Health Institute   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COHORT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RESEARCH DESIGN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84860906156     PISSN: 00030651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0003065112441971     Document Type: Article

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