John Thor Cornelius, M.D., is a psychiatrist who provides both psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychotropic medication management.
Dr. Cornelius was Chief Resident in the Department of Psychiatry at UC Davis in the 2004-2005 academic year. He also trained in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and has conducted therapy with patients since 2003. He is a candidate in advanced psychoanalytic training at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California.
He supervises and teaches medical residents specializing in psychiatry at the University of California at Davis and is instructor of record for the Introduction to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy course which has been taught yearly at UC Davis since 2011.
This video, “A Case for Psychoanalysis: Exploring the Scientific Evidence”, is a summary of the evidence for psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The video is a good introduction to the large body of evidence that shows the efficacy of Psychoanalytic therapy.
Here is an excerpt of a key result on the evidence for psychoanalytic psychotherapy>
- Antidepressant medications, the most common treatment for those struggling with mood has an effect size of .31, which is generally considered a small to moderate effect.
- Looking at these studies, the effect size of psychoanalytic treatments ranges from .59 to 2.21.
- In addition,there is growing evidence that psychoanalytic treatments differentiate themselves in that the benefits from psychoanalytic treatment tend to continue to grow after the treatment ends, while benefits from other treatments such as medications and CBT generally decay after treatment.
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