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Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy is the systematic treatment of psychological distress and mental-health conditions through structured interpersonal and verbal methods that aim to modify thoughts, emotions, and behaviour. Grounded in established theoretical traditions, it includes psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches, cognitive…

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

Overview

Psychotherapy is the systematic treatment of psychological distress and mental-health conditions through structured interpersonal and verbal methods that aim to modify thoughts, emotions, and behaviour. Grounded in established theoretical traditions, it includes psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches, cognitive and behavioural methods, solution-focused and short-term dynamic techniques, and integrative or combined modalities, and it may be delivered alongside pharmacological or other care. The therapeutic process emphasizes the clinical relationship, formulation of underlying difficulties, and change processes such as insight, emotional processing, self-monitoring, and adaptive behaviour change. Research in this area examines the form and structure of the creative process in psychotherapy, the integration of intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy with hypnotic and solution-focused methods, and the comparative effectiveness of combined therapy versus usual care for depressed patients with pain. Studies address specialized applications, including work with torture and war survivors, dissociative amnesia, suicidal ideation, bipolar disorder, and survivors of gender-based violence, as well as the contribution of self-monitoring to self-management. Professional and training dimensions, such as pathways into psychoanalytic practice for social workers and psychosocial counselling to address service gaps, are also represented, alongside the influence of religion on mental health. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research on psychotherapeutic theory, technique, and outcomes within the psychophysiological and clinical-psychology literature.

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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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Psychophysiology Practice and Research.

Journal editorial board
Parsa Ravanfar · United States Rossella Di Monaco · Italy Volker Zschorlich · Germany

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