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Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy is a structured, evidence-based form of treatment in which a trained clinician uses a therapeutic relationship and defined techniques to relieve mental-health conditions, emotional distress, and maladaptive patterns of thought and behavior. It encompasses several major traditions, each with a distinct …

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

Overview

Psychotherapy is a structured, evidence-based form of treatment in which a trained clinician uses a therapeutic relationship and defined techniques to relieve mental-health conditions, emotional distress, and maladaptive patterns of thought and behavior. It encompasses several major traditions, each with a distinct model of change. Cognitive-behavioral approaches target the reciprocal links between cognition, emotion, and action; psychodynamic and short-term dynamic therapies work with unconscious conflict, affect, and relational patterns; humanistic and existential modalities emphasize meaning, growth, and the person's subjective experience; and solution-focused methods mobilize existing strengths toward concrete goals. Across these differences, research consistently identifies common factors, particularly the therapeutic alliance, as central to outcome, alongside the specific ingredients of each modality. Integrative practice may combine elements, including adjuncts such as hypnosis or self-monitoring, to fit the presenting problem. Psychotherapy is applied across mood, anxiety, and trauma-related disorders, and increasingly within the care of patients facing serious medical illness, where psychological and physical burdens interact. Behavior-change and self-management strategies extend its reach to everyday functioning. This journal publishes peer-reviewed research in this area, including studies of dynamic and integrative modalities, treatment of trauma and psychiatric-medical comorbidity, and the processes through which therapeutic change and behavior modification occur.

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.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Psychotherapy, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Psychological Disorders.

Journal editorial board
Michael Klein · United States M. Camino Escolar-Llamazares · Spain Detlef Dietrich · Germany

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