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I often hear claims that psychoanalysis is ineffective, takes too long, is just pseudo-science, that other therapies such as cognitive-behavioural should be preferred or even that it should be entirely dismissed. In this talk however, the speaker seems to claim that psychoanalysis has quite a bit of empirical evidence going for it, which surprised and confused me.

How strong is the research on psychoanalysis as a treatment for depression?

I am not sure if this is too opinion based, so please help me make it better if it is (e.g. 'what is some of the best evidence on psychoanalysis as a treatment for depression?')

Giovani Granzotto
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    Welcome to Psychology.SE. There is a big discussion in meta concerning pseudoscience of psychoanalysis and that is at https://psychology.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2242. There are also limitations to CBT along with many who regard CBT to not be as effective as portrayed. For CBT and depression there is https://psychology.stackexchange.com/q/13516 – Chris Rogers Jul 11 '19 at 21:31
  • @ChrisRogers thank you, I will look into those. – Giovani Granzotto Jul 12 '19 at 12:14

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