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Psychotherapeutic

Psychotherapeutic interventions are planned, theory-based treatments delivered through a clinical relationship to modify thoughts, emotions, and behaviours and to relieve psychological suffering. They are applied across a wide spectrum of mental health problems, including depression, anxiety, trauma- and stressor-re…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 7 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 70× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2574-612X 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Psychotherapeutic interventions are planned, theory-based treatments delivered through a clinical relationship to modify thoughts, emotions, and behaviours and to relieve psychological suffering. They are applied across a wide spectrum of mental health problems, including depression, anxiety, trauma- and stressor-related disorders, and the psychological burden of physical illness, and may be offered individually, in groups, or within broader social-care programmes. Distinct modalities pursue change through different mechanisms: cognitive-analytic therapy integrates cognitive and psychodynamic understanding to address relational and trauma-linked difficulties, as in work with women diagnosed with breast cancer and post-traumatic stress disorder; combined and adjunctive therapies support patients facing depression alongside pain or chronic disease; and structured counselling programmes extend access where specialist provision is scarce. The field also addresses complex and treatment-resistant presentations, such as dissociative amnesia, and the use of self-monitoring as a component of self-management and adaptive behaviour change. A central concern is the differentiation of overlapping states, for example distinguishing depression from apathy, so that intervention is correctly targeted. Significance lies in offering evidence-informed routes to recovery that complement or substitute for medication. Principal sub-areas include cognitive, behavioural, psychodynamic, and integrative therapies, crisis and psychosocial counselling, and the measurement of process and outcome that establishes which interventions work for whom.

Research published in this journal

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

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 7 articles above have been cited 70 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research (ISSN 2574-612X).

Journal editorial board
Karim Sedky · United States Tullio Scrimali · Italy DAMIANA SCUTERI · Italy

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