face-to-face therapy

Study: To treat depression, therapy alone works better than therapy combined with antidepressants

by

___

Should Com­bined CBT, Phar­ma­cother­a­py Be Recon­sid­ered in MDD? (Psy­chi­a­try Advisor):

“Cog­ni­tive behav­ioral ther­a­py (CBT) alone proved to be supe­ri­or to the com­bi­na­tion of psy­chother­a­py and anti­de­pres­sant med­ica­tion in the treat­ment of major depres­sive dis­or­der (MDD) in a sys­tem­at­ic review and meta-analy­sis pub­lished in Psy­cho­log­i­cal Medicine.

Anti­de­pres­sant med­ica­tion is asso­ci­at­ed with side effects and with­draw­al symp­toms and 23% more expen­sive than psy­cho­log­i­cal inter­ven­tions, [Read more…] about Study: To treat depres­sion, ther­a­py alone works bet­ter than ther­a­py com­bined with antidepressants