When Less is More: Cognitive Behavior Therapy vs Psychoanalysis for Bulimia

Sunday, January 19, 2014 SPORK! 0 Comments

Twenty sessions of cognitive behavior therapy over 5 months reducedbinge eating and purgingbetter than 2 years of weekly psychoanalytic psychotherapy. This was true for assessments both at five months (42% versus 6%), marking the ending the cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), and two years (45% versus 16%), marking the ending of the psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Overall, psychoanalytic psychotherapy did not do well, despite the greater intensity of treatment.

Read the full article at Plos

(http://blogs.plos.org/mindthebrain/2014/01/07/less-cognitive-behavior-therapy-vs-psychoanalysis-bulimia/)