In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind

by Eric R. Kandel

interpersonal psychotherapy. This treatment focuses on correcting patients’ mistaken beliefs and on changing the nature of their communications in various interactions with others. Like cognitive behavioral therapy, it has proven efficacious in controlled trials for mild and moderate depression and has been codified in teaching manuals. Interpersonal therapy seems to be particularly effective in situational crises, such as the loss of a partner or a child, whereas cognitive therapy appears to be particularly effective in treating chronic disorders. Similarly, although not yet as extensively studied, Peter Sifneous and Habib Davanloo have formalized a third short-term treatment, brief dynamic therapy, which focuses on the patient’s defenses and resistance, and Otto Kernberg has introduced a psychotherapy focused on transference.

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