Some patients benefit from short-term psychotherapy provided by trained professionals.

There is also a Cochrane systematic review examining the efficacy of short-term psychodynamic psychotherapies for common mental disorders.

The difference between short-term and long-term psychotherapy is, in large measure, a difference in the very notion of neurosis itself.

"Why would you want to take a drug the rest of your life when in fact your problem might very well respond to some short-term psychotherapy?"

Treatment Only one in five depressed adolescents receives treatment, which can involve a combination of short-term psychotherapy, medication and changes at home or school.

Clinical outcomes after short-term psychotherapy for adolescents with major depressive disorder.

The most effective treatments for clinical depression usually combine short-term psychotherapy with antidepressant medications as needed.

Today, pharmacology and focused, short-term psychotherapies predominate in the treatment of mental illness.

Two of the short-term psychotherapies that research has shown helpful for some forms of depression are interpersonal and cognitive/behavioral therapies.

He came to national attention that year when Life magazine publicized his ideas about short-term psychotherapy.