Psychoanalytische Therapie

A short comment on Huber et al.’s (2012) comparison of cognitive-behaviour therapy with psychoanalytic and psychodynamic therapy for depressed patients – a three-year follow-up study

“…In nomological psychoanalytic research on the effectiveness, a multitude of divergent methods were used (compare, for instance, 19−25 other attempts, all applying completely different methods, have been assembled by Brandl et al, 2 ). In the epistemological understanding findings are specific to the method used, and in order to acquire knowledge of the object of the study the method used must be 1 This phenomenon was first noticed when it was found that subjects who behaved in accordance with the relevant hypothesis reacted not only to the conditions introduced, but also to the experimenter's expectations as to the outcome of the testing.…”

Commentary on Kernberg’s “Suicide Prevention for Psychoanalytic Institutes and Societies”

“…If psychoanalytically informed the ra pies are to be developed, how could empirical evidence confirm the success of psycho analytic treatments if the object of psychoanalysis is not covered by the methodology of outcome studies and if these studies widely differ methodologically? (Compare, e.g., Bachrach 1993;Buchholz 1996;Freedman et al 1999;Kantrowitz et al 1990a,b,c;Leuzinger-Bohleber et al 2003;Sandell et al 2000;Sashin, Eldred, and Van Amerongen 1975; more studies, all employing completely different methods, are listed in Brandl et al 2004. ) The outcomes of research are always specific to their methods, and it is simply not possible that all the divergent methods put to use are equally adequate to the object under investigation.…”