• Seventeen subjects with panic disorder (PD) and 16 subjects with generalized anxiety
disorder (GAD) were interviewed to obtain their developmental and psychiatric histories. The …

… Winston A, Pinsker H, McCullough L: A review of supportive psychotherapy. Hosp …
Pinsker H: The role of theory in teaching supportive therapy. Am J Psychother 1994; 4:530–…

In this book, we outline a systematic approach to supportive psychotherapy. This book is
directed at beginning therapists who need to learn the fundamentals of psychotherapy and, in …

For many patients, supportive therapy is the treatment of choice, and for many others, the
use of medications or of more expressive techniques optimally occurs in the context of a …

Although supportive psychotberapy techniques are more widely used than expressive or
insight-oriented techniques, particularly with hospitalized or chronically illpatients, supportive …

As a substudy of a manual-based outcome study of the Beth Israel Brief Psychotherapy Program,
the authors studied the efficacy of supportive psychotherapy in personality change, with …

Supportive and expressive techniques in psychotherapy can be located on a continuum.
Traditionally, psychotherapy has been oriented toward the expressive end of the continuum, …

Supportive psychotherapy is widely practiced and may in fact be the treatment provided to
most psychiatric patients. In the early years of psychoanalysis, it was generally assumed that …

From a sample of 257 elderly patients, 93 subjects who had received benzodiazepine (mainly
diazepam) prescriptions for one or more years were interviewed about their subjective …

A number of writers have advanced the opinion that it is beneficial to a patient to have a
therapist of the same ethnic background. The authors point out that this may lead to "blind spots" …