Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Vs Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

An interesting study has been published recently that compares psychoanalytic psychotherapy and cognitive-behavioural therapy in Bulimia Treatment South Africa.

In this trial 70 patients were tested, half received a 2 year psychoanalytic psychotherapy and the other half was required to do 20 sessions of CBT over a 5 month period.

Both treatments resulted in improvement, but a marked difference was observed between CBT and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. 20 sessions of CBT delivered over five months was more effective in relieving binging and purging than 2 years of weekly psychoanalytic psychotherapy and was generally faster in alleviating eating disorder features and general psychopathology.

It can be concluded that we need to develop a more structured and symptom-focused version of psychoanalytic psychotherapy for bulimia nervosa. Or we could also just use CBT.

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