Must All Have Prizes? The Munich Psychotherapy Study

Multimodal psychodynamic psychotherapy induces normalization of reward related activity in somatoform disorder

“…By providing patients understanding for the psychogenesis of their somatic symptoms and by offering new approaches to deal with underlying emotional problems (Blagys and Hilsenroth 2002;Leichsenring 2005;Grabe et al 2008), psychodynamic psychotherapy not only reduced salient somatic symptoms, but also normalized neuronal activity during the processing of external relevant stimuli. In addition, our results further confi rm that multimodal psychodynamic psychotherapy that was applied in this paper is indicated for the treatment of somatoform disorders (Beutel et al 2008;Huber et al 2009). …”

“…Standardized inpatient psychodynamic psychotherapy was conducted as recently explained (Grabe et al 2008;Haase et al 2008;Huber et al 2009). The therapeutic regime included psychodynamic individual therapy, psychodynamic group therapy, and medical therapy.…”

Is It All about the Higher Dose? Why Psychoanalytic Therapy Is an Effective Treatment for Major Depression

“…More detailed descriptions of the study design can be found in the works of Huber, Henrich, et al . (2012), Huber, Zimmermann, et al . (2012) and Huber et al .…”

“…Put more pointedly, the question is whether intensive psychodynamic treatments are effective because they are intensive or because they are psychodynamic / psychoanalytic . The aim of this study was to test these rival hypotheses using data from the Munich Psychotherapy Study (MPS; Huber, Henrich, Clarkin, & Klug, ; Huber, Henrich, Gastner, & Klug, 2012; Huber, Zimmermann, Henrich, & Klug, 2012), which is a quasi‐experimental study comparing psychoanalytic therapy (i.e., high‐dose LTPP) with psychodynamic therapy (i.e., low‐dose LTPP) and cognitive–behavioural therapy (CBT) for depression.…”

Comparison of cognitive-behaviour therapy with psychoanalytic and psychodynamic therapy for depressed patients – A three-year follow-up study

“…The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of the TUM. The study design was described in detail in Huber et al (Huber et al 2012). Here we confine ourselves to presenting the comparison of CBT versus PA and CBT versus PD.…”