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Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy is the treatment of psychological, emotional, and behavioural difficulties through structured therapeutic relationships and verbal and experiential techniques delivered by trained professionals. It addresses conditions ranging from depression, anxiety, and trauma to bipolar disorder and dissociative co…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 80× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 3070-3360 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Psychotherapy is the treatment of psychological, emotional, and behavioural difficulties through structured therapeutic relationships and verbal and experiential techniques delivered by trained professionals. It addresses conditions ranging from depression, anxiety, and trauma to bipolar disorder and dissociative conditions, helping individuals understand the origins of their distress and develop strategies for change. The field encompasses diverse modalities, including intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy and its integration with hypnotic and solution-focused methods, psychoanalytic approaches, and combined treatments that pair psychotherapy with usual care, as in the management of depressed cancer patients with pain. The creative process within psychotherapy, where form and structure serve as a basis of treatment, and self-monitoring as a mechanism of self-management and adaptive behaviour change, illustrate its theoretical breadth. Psychotherapy is applied to specific populations and contexts, including survivors of torture, war, and gender-based violence, and it engages questions of suicidal ideation, comorbidity, and recovery. The relationship between religion, spirituality, and mental health, and the psychological dimensions of pain, further inform practice. Research in this area examines psychotherapeutic methods and their theoretical foundations, evaluates their application across mental-health conditions and vulnerable groups, and assesses outcomes related to symptom reduction, behaviour change, and psychological recovery.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2020

Pain between Psyche and Soma in Uro-Andrology

Pruneti CarloCorresponding author
Dept. of Medicine and Surgery, Clinical Psychology, Clinical Psychophysiology and Clinical Neuropsychology Labs., University of Parma, Italy.
Exact topic International Journal of Pain Management Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2688-5328.ijp-20-3386
2018

Dissociative Amnesia – A Challenge to Therapy  

Staniloiu AngelicaCorresponding author
University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Exact topic International Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research Cited by 30 doi:10.14302/issn.2574-612X.ijpr-18-2246

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 80 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Complementary Medicine (ISSN 3070-3360).

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