Project

Interactions between Psychotherapy Type and Personality Style in the Treatment of Depressive Patients: A Conservation-analytic approach

Code
05U40416
Duration
15 February 2017 → 14 February 2023
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Human experimental psychology not elsewhere classified
Keywords
psychotherapy depressive patients
 
Project description

A substantial amount of empirical research showed the efficacy of different types of psychotherapy for the treatment of depression. Retrospective naturalistic research suggests, however, that depressive patients with different personality styles react differently to different types of therapie. This project intends to apply conversation-analysis to therapy-patient interactions in 20 cases to study the mechanisms responsible for differential efficacy.