The role of insight in exploratory psychodynamic psychotherapy.

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    • Source:
      Publisher: British Psychological Society Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 0370640 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Print ISSN: 0007-1129 (Print) Linking ISSN: 00071129 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Br J Med Psychol Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Publication: Letchworth Eng : British Psychological Society
      Original Publication: London [etc.]
    • Subject Terms:
      Interpersonal Relations* ; Psychoanalytic Therapy*; Adult ; Awareness ; Cognition ; Female ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Perception ; Psychoanalytic Theory ; Treatment Outcome
    • Abstract:
      Psychoanalytic theory holds that dynamic insight is used for self-observation and self-analysis during and after explorative therapy. Such self-analysis is held to lead to stable dynamic change. Within a sample of 43 moderately disturbed out-patients, pre-treatment level of insight was associated with treatment length, with not being an early or late drop-out, and with receiving additional psychotherapy during a four-year follow-up period. Pre-treatment level of insight turned out to be not directly correlated with outcome two and four years after therapy. However, level of insight was significantly correlated with outcome in interaction with treatment length. Gain of insight measured at two-year follow-up was the strongest predictor of overall dynamic change four years after therapy, compared with all the other outcome assessments made at two-year follow-up.
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 19941201 Date Completed: 19950420 Latest Revision: 20190914
    • Publication Date:
      20221213
    • Accession Number:
      10.1111/j.2044-8341.1994.tb01799.x
    • Accession Number:
      7888394