Correspondence (letter to the editor): Stable Therapeutic Effects Thanks to Psychodynamic Therapy

In their article, the authors cite two of my own publications (1, 2). They write: "Other studies and meta-analyses have involved patients with a mixture of diagnoses, so that it is difficult to draw any specific conclusions about the effectiveness of these types of treatment for depression ... ." This statement is not correct with regard to my own two articles. It is not the case that patients with different diagnoses were investigated in these studies, but uniquely patients with depressive disorders. I cited a series of randomized controlled studies that showed that psychoanalytic therapy was as efficacious as cognitive behavioral therapy. A meta-analysis also showed that psychoanalytically based therapy was as effective in depressive disorders as cognitive behavior therapy (2)