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Both individual studies and meta-analyses of psychotherapy effectiveness are plagued by methodological difficulties, and few studies comparing psychodynamic psychotherapy with other empirically supported therapies have been large enough to adequately address questions of clinical equivalence. Now, investigators have conducted a first-ever meta-analysis of “head to head” psychotherapy comparison studies.
The meta-analysis included 23 studies enrolling 2751 patients; each study compared manual-guided therapies, focused on “target symptoms” of specific disorders, and was capable of showing a clinically meaningful minimum difference in effect size of 0.25 between treatments. Each report was rated for study quality and researcher allegiance biase…