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Bridging Technology and Psychotherapy: Toward Investigating Psychological and Neural Correlates of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

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Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Research

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Generations of therapists can attest to the ability of psychotherapy to effect change in people’s lives, changes that we now know undoubtedly reflect changes in the brain. At the same time, as Gabbard [1] suggests, the need to understand explicitly the neural basis of psychotherapy through scientific research is greater than ever. In this chapter, we review an ongoing study investigating psychological and neural correlates of brief psychodynamic psychotherapy in individuals suffering from major depression. The study, to the best of our knowledge, is the first of its kind; most studies to date of neural correlates of psychotherapy have focused on cognitive behavioral therapy and interpersonal therapy (IPT) ([2], Chap. 9).

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Sharmin Ghaznavi M.D., Ph.D. & Janet M. Witte M.D., MPH (Staff Psychiatrist, Instructor in Psychiatry)

  2. Harvard Medical School, Clinical Director, Psychotherapy Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachuetts, USA

    Raymond A. Levy PsyD (Assistant Clinical Professor)

  3. Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA

    Joshua L. Roffman M.D., MMSc.

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  1. Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Parkman St., Boston, 02114, Massachusetts, USA

    Raymond A. Levy

  2. Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Morrimac Street 101, Boston, 02114, Massachusetts, USA

    J. Stuart Ablon

  3. and Psychoanalysis, International Psychoanalytic University, Department of Clinical Psychology, Stromstr. 3, Berlin, 10555, Germany

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Ghaznavi, S., Witte, J.M., Levy, R.A., Roffman, J.L. (2012). Bridging Technology and Psychotherapy: Toward Investigating Psychological and Neural Correlates of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. In: Levy, R., Ablon, J., Kächele, H. (eds) Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Research. Current Clinical Psychiatry. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-792-1_18

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