Horst Kaechele

Short or Long Term Psychoanalytic Therapies

Moscow 2008

Time for Psychotherapy

How much time (sessions / weeks) is provided in experimental treatment research and

How much time is provided for whom in which form of treatment in naturalistic settings ?

and

Does it make a difference ?

Duration of Experimental Treatment Studies

based on Grawe et al. 1994

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies

– 429 Studies, mean length 11,2 sessions

– 434 Studies, mean. length 7, 9 weeks

Humanistic Therapies – 70 Studies, mean. length 16,1 sessions

– 76 Studies, mean. length 11, 6 weeks

Psychodynamic Therapies

– 82 Studies, mean. length 27,6 sessions

– 80 Studies, mean. length 30,7 weeks

Frequency, Duration & Total Dose

• 1 Sesssions per week ca 1 year: ca 30 sessions

• 2 Sessions per week ca 2 years: ± 120 sessions.• 3 Sessions per week ca 3 years : ± 270 sessions.

• 4 Sessions per week ca 4 years : ± 480 sessions.• 5 Sessions per week ca 5 years : ± 750 sessions.

• 6 Sessions per week ca 6 years : ± 1080 sessions

• Increase of frequency tends to prolong the duration, thus total dose grows exponentially

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

The data on 496 treatments were shared by Prof. Schulte from the University of Bochum, Department for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy.

Fifty percent of treatments are terminated by 28 sessions

The relationship of time in experimental trials to naturalistic design is 1 : 2.5

Duration of out-patient CB Therapy

Client-Centered Psychotherapy

The data on 300 treatments were shared by Prof. Eckert, University of Hamburg, based on a German nationwide sample.

Fifty percent of treatments are terminated by 60 sessions.

The relationship of time in experimental trials to naturalistic design is 1 : 3.5

Duration of Client-Centered Therapy

Psychodynamic PsychotherapiesThe Ulm Outpatient Clinic provides different forms of treatments. 50 % of 430 once-a-week psychodynamic and 50% of 169 CB treatments are terminated after 20-25 sessions.

202 psychoanalytic psychotherapy - twice a week - reach the fifty percent benchmark after 65 sessions.

Supportive psychotherapy provided by social workers reach the 50% benchmark like the psychodynamic group; then some patients need longer care.

Ulm Out-Patient Clinic1980-1990

Time and Outcome

One findings seems clear:

Time is allotted to and used by patients/clients in quite variable degrees.

Research question:

Does more treatment also leads to better outcome ?

Consumer Reports Study 1

• US-Survey on satisfaction with treatment• Kind of therapy• Kind of therapist• Problems leading to therapy• Duration and frequency• Emotional state before and after therapy• Improvements in which part of life• Satisfaction with treatment

• Kotkin, M., C. Daviet, et al. (1996). "The Consumer Reports Mental Health

Survey." American Psychologist 51: 1080-1082.

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Consumer Reports Study 2

• Scales values from 0 to 100

• A) Special improvement

• B) Satisfaction with therapist

• C) Global improvement

• Total score feasible between 0 - 300

• Main finding:

• Total scores correlates with duration of treatment

• ( Sample size N= 2.846)

Consumer Reports Study 3

German Study on Effectiveness of Psychotherapy and Patients´

Satisfaction I

• Hartmann & Zepf (Saarbruecken) perform another replication of the CR Study using the translated CR questionaire and ADVERTISING the study through a Consumer Journal

• Hartmann, S. and S. Zepf (2003)• Effectiveness of Psychotherapy - A Replication of the Consumer-Reports-Study. • Psychotherapy Research 13: 235-242.•

German CR Study II

Effectiveness & Treatment Modality

150

200

250

300

Improvement Score

PA PP BT CCT Modality of Psychotherapy

244 237 236

223

German CR Study III

Duration and Effectiveness

German CR Study IV

Duration more than two years• Psychoanalytic Therapy 74%

• Psychodynamic Therapy 50%

• Client-Centered Therapy 42%

• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy 29%

German CR Study V

Findings

• Clear cut influence of duration on consumer rated outcome

• The first significant improvement of effectiveness after 7 months, the second after one year, and a highly significant improvement after two years.

• Methodical problems reside in sampling

IPTAR Study of the Effectiveness of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Aims

1. What is the influence of duration on effectiveness2. What is the influence of frequency on effectiveness 3. What is the influence of duration and frequency on the therapeutic alliance4. Is there an interaction between clinical syndrome and duration, frequency and effectiveness

Sample: Patients of the IPTAR Treatment Center New YorkMethod: ConsumerReports Questionaire

Return rate: from 240 distributed questionaires (only) 99 were returned (41% rate of participation):

• IPTAR

• Sample and Method

IPTAR

Duration and Effectiveness

IPTAR

Frequency and Effectivensss

IPTAR

InteractionsEffect byFactor

Frequency Duration

Overall r=.29*** r=.28***1. Eatingdisorders

r=.51* r=.09

2. Anxiety r=.57** r=.143. Depression r=.25 r=.224. Familydisorganization

r=.17 r=.44

5. Stress r=.07 r=.49**

Berlin Jungian Psychoanalysis Study ICharacteristics of follow-up sample

Follow-up sample(n=111)

Mean(SD)

Age at follow-up,1994 (yrs)

44.5(4.8)

Age at start oftreatment (yrs.)

35.0(8.8)

Age at the end oftreatment (yrs)

37.0(8.0)

Time of follow-up(yrs)

5.8(0.79)

Treatment length(0.3-8.3 yrs)

2.9(1.7)

Number of therapysessions (range 15-399)

161.9(94.9)

Berlin Jungian Study Duration and outcome

(Global improvement based on three scales)

The German DPV-Follow-Up Study

• Leuzinger-Bohleber M, Stuhr U, Rüger B, Beutel M (2003)

• How to study the quality of psychoanalytic treatments and their long term effects on patients well-being. A representative multiperspective follow-up study.

• Int J Psychoanal 84: 263-290

German DPV-Follow-Up Study

• In the sample of 400 analytic patents

• Length of treatment around 4 years

• No difference between low frequency (1-2) and high frequency (3-4) in psychometric data at follow-up (6 years)

• The authors claim:

• if the indication is made properly than both forms of treatment are successful.

Differences between psychoanalyses and long term analytic psychotherapies

# Both forms of treatment lead to long time stable results in the majority of patients, if the indication was properly done:

# self reflection and the internalization of the analyst were more comprehensive in analytic patients , the evaluation of achieved outcomes more differentiated, and the development of creative ressouirces more innovative.

Leuzinger-Bohleber M, Target M (Eds) (2002) Outcomes of Psychoanalytic Treatment Perspectives for Therapists and Researchers. Whurr Publishers,, London and Philadelphia,

Clinical Prototype-Formation

Capacity for relationship

Capacity to work - Creativity

Self reflection

Leuzinger-Bohleber & Rüger (2002, S.130)

The Eight Clinical Prototypes

Type 1: „well done... The really good ones“

Type 2: succesful, but why,?..the unreflecting successful ones

Type 3: with success and little capicity for reflection, but socially well integrated...“

Type 4: the tragic ones, that were able to accept their lot „

Type 5: „..professionally successful and creativ, but still alone...“

Type 6: „successful within limits in their creativity and capacity to work but with clear limits...“

Type 7: „...therapy didn´ t do any good.. “

Type 8: „ the severly traumatized people“

Clusteranalytic Identification of

Sub-groups

Sub-group 1: the therapeutically successful with focus on satisfaction with health, but with a common suffering from sexuality

Sub-group 2: the therapeutically successful with focus on diffuse satisfaction

Sub-group 3: tze still suffering, that are only satisfied on the average

Sub-group 4: the therapeutically successful with focus on financal satisfaction

Sub-group 5: the totally satisfied

Sub-group 6: the still suffering unsatisfied

Sub-group 7: the extrem group of less successful of all

Stuhr et al. (2002, p.154)

Measuring Structural Change with Wallerstein´s Scale of Psychological

Capacities ?The Munich Psychotherapy Study:

Huber D, Klug G (2003) Contributions to the measurement of mode-specific effects in long-term psychoanalytic therapy. In: Richardson P, Kächele H, Renlund C (Eds) Research on Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Adults. London, Karnac

1. Psychoanalysis

• 3 x weekly• couch• > 240

sessions

2. Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

• 1 x weekly• sitting• 80-120 sessions

3. Behavior-Therapy

• 1 x weekly• sitting• 25-80 sessions

Groups

Correlations of change parameters with duration (month) and dose (total session

numbers)

• No final data analysis available, CAVE so far:

• Scales of Psychological Capacities:

• Pre -> corr. with duration = .33

• BSS socialcomm. Pre -> corr. with dose = .37

• All other change parameters do not correlate at no time point with either duration or nor dose

The Heidelberg-Berlin Study Change of Structure Scale

Grande T, Rudolf G, Oberbracht C, Jakobsen T, Keller W (2003) Investigating structural change in the process and outcome of psychoanalytic treatment - The Heidelberg-Berlin Study. In: Richardson P, Kächele H, Renlund C (Hrsg) Research on Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Adults. London, p. 35-62

The Stockholm Outcome of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

(STOPP) Study

STOPP SCL-90 Global Severity Index (GSI)

Therapists´ Attitude

• Sandell R, Lazar A, Grant J, Carlson J, Schubert J, Broberg J (2007)

• Therapists' attitudes and patient outcomes: II Therapist attitudes influence change during treatment.

• Psychother Res 17: 201-211

STOPP

Therapists´ factors

Individual therapists

Treatment stages

late afteraftersoon afterlate duringduringearly during

SCL-90 (GSI) scores

3,5

3,0

2,5

2,0

1,5

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Treatment result trajectories of the General Symptom Index among therapists in the STOPP-Project.

Individual trajectories of 219 therapists

T r e a tm e n t s ta g e s

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SCL-90 (GSI) mean scores

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2 ,5

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# 1 ( 3 1 % )

# 2 ( 2 7 % )

# 3 ( 2 7 % )

# 4 ( 1 0 % )

# 5 ( 3 % )

# 6 ( 3 % )

n o r m a l m e a n

c a s e n e s s c r it e r io n

Treatment result trajectories of the General Symptom Index among therapists in the STOPP:

Latent class model.

T r e a t m e n t s t a g e s

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SCL-90 (GSI) mean scores

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c a s e n e s s c r i t e r i o n

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Treatment results: trajectories of the General Symptom Index among therapists in the STOPPP.

Mean trajectory

Norcross & Lambert, 2006

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7,0%

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ConsequencesInteraction of therapist style and treatment intensity ?

Should treatment intensity influence therapist style ?

Answers open for discussion !!!!!!

Frequency as battle ground

• „on the one hand, the frequency of sessions is viewed as a variable dependent on the optimal combination of structuring, confrontation, and assimilation, but on the other hand, once settled it takes on the character of an independent variable, that is it becomes part of the setting and an object on which conflicts in the relationship can crystallize“

• (Thomä & Kächele Tom 1)

– Sovremenny psikhoanaliz Tom 1. Teoria.

Progress, Moskva 1997

– Sovremenny psikhoanaliz. Tom 2. Praktika.

Progress, Moskva 1997

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