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First Experimental Study of Transference-Interpretations (FEST)

NCT00423462 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2/PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2007-08-27

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Summary

Analysis of the ongoing patient-therapist interaction, the transference, is considered a key active ingredient in psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.However, one century after Sigmund Freuds's famous "Dora" case, the first clinical description of transference, no study of transference interpretations have been published.In the present study 100 out-patients were randomized to receive one year weekly dynamic psychotherapy, with and without transference interpretations. That is, one treatment component,transference interpretations, were added to a comparison condition, therapy of the same format, by the same therapists, but without use of transference interpretation.

All treatment session were audiotaped, and treatment integrity have been carefully checked. Patients were evaluated at treatment termination, one year after treatment termination and three years after treatment termination. Enrollment of patients started january 1993, and all follow-up evaluations completed by December 2005.

Conditions

  • Mood Disorders
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Personality Disorders

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Brief dynamic psychotherapy

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Research Council of Norway

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Oslo

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Per Høglend, M.D. Ph. D. · Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Unoversity of Oslo

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
1993-01-31
Completion
2005-12-31

Countries

  • Norway

Study Locations

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