Depression:Talk Therapy

Depressed? Anxious? The good news is that talk therapy can really help. But if the only thing you know about therapy you learned from watching The Sopranos, finding the right therapist can feel overwhelming. Therapies fall into one (or more) “schools,” each with its own theories and techniques. Find out your options and choose the one that will work best for you.   View slideshow

Finding a therapist who can best help you starts with choosing the right person, but not necessarily the right therapy. Bruce E. Wampold, PhD, a professor of counseling psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, analyzed data from 6,000 patients seeing more than 500 therapists and found that all schools of talk therapy can work—if the therapist is competent and in sync with his or her patient...  Read More

There's no lab test or imaging study like a CT scan or an MRI to measure how much progress you've made in therapy. But there is a strong movement away from endless navel-gazing—the Woody Allen stereotype of therapy going on for years, even decades, without resolution...   Read More

Talk therapy isn't self-indulgent chatter or a placebo. It works, especially if the patient is in the hands of a skilled and compassionate therapist. Studies show that people with personality disorders recover seven times faster with the help of therapy than they would without treatment...   Read More