This article provides a critical review of the assumptions and findings of studies used to establish
psychotherapies as empirically supported. The attempt to identify empirically supported …

Although commentators periodically declare that Freud is dead, his repeated burials lie on
shaky grounds. Critics typically attack an archaic version of psychodynamic theory that most …

OBJECTIVE: The authors present a multidimensional meta-analysis of studies published
between 1980 and 2003 on psychotherapy for PTSD. METHOD: Data on variables not …

Research on political judgment and decision-making has converged with decades of research
in clinical and social psychology suggesting the ubiquity of emotion-biased motivated …

Construct validity is one of the most central concepts in psychology. Researchers generally
establish the construct validity of a measure by correlating it with a number of other measures …

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This article describes a model of affect regulation that integrates research and theory from
psychoanalytic, cognitive, behavioral, and evolutionary perspectives on personality. It …

The authors report a meta-analysis of high-quality studies published from 1990-1998 on the
efficacy of manualized psychotherapies for depression, panic disorder, and generalized …

Social cognition research and psychoanalytic object relations theory both address the cognitive
and affective processes that mediate interpersonal functioning. Each approach faces a …

What is a psychoanalytic approach? Freud (1923/1961) defined psychoanalysis as (1) a theory
of the mind or personality,(2) a method of investigation of unconscious processes, and (3…