Psychotherapy versus pharmacotherapy of depression: What's the evidence?

Zeitschrift fur Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 190-195

  Leichsenring, Falk ^a   Steinert, Christiane ^a   Hoyer, Jürgen ^b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blinding; Depression; Meta analysis; Pharmacotherapy; Placebo; Psychotherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADULT; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; LONG TERM CARE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

EID: 85002163658     PISSN: 14383608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13109/zptm.2016.62.2.190     Document Type: Article

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