First Experimental Study of Transference-Interpretations (FEST)

NCT00423462 | Completed Phase 2

• 1 other identifier: FEST307/95
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 100
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Analysis of the ongoing patient-therapist interaction, the transference, is considered a key active ingredient in psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.However, one century after Sigmund Freuds's famous "Dora" case, the first clinical description of transference, no study of transference interpretations have been published.In the present study 100 out-patients were randomized to receive one year weekly dynamic psychotherapy, with and without transference interpretations. That is, one treatment component,transference interpretations, were added to a comparison condition, therapy of the same format, by the same therapists, but without use of transference interpretation. All treatment session were audiotaped, and treatment integrity have been carefully checked. Patients were evaluated at treatment termination, one year after treatment termination and three years after treatment termination. Enrollment of patients started january 1993, and all follow-up evaluations completed by December 2005.

Conditions

Mood Disorders; Anxiety Disorders; Personality Disorders

Keywords

Psychotherapy; Long-term effects

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• The Psychodynamic Functioning Scales (PFS), clinician rated

• Inventory if Interpersonal Problems-Circumplex version (IIP-C), self-report

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• The Global Assessment of Functioning Scale (GAF)

• Global Severity Index (GSI) from SCL-90-R

Interventions

Brief dynamic psychotherapy BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 20 Years - 60 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Age 20 - 60 years
• Diagnoses Mood-disorder, non-psychotic
• Anxiety disorders
• Personality disorders
• Interpersonal problems not due to a mental disorder

You may not qualify if:

• Psychotic disorders
• Bipolar disorder
• Organic brain disorder
• Substance abuse
• Long-term (years) disability
• Mental retardation

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Oslo: lead
• The Research Council of Norway: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo

Oslo, 0881 Oslo, Norway

Location

Related Publications (11)

• Hoglend P, Amlo S, Marble A, Bogwald KP, Sorbye O, Sjaastad MC, Heyerdahl O. Analysis of the patient-therapist relationship in dynamic psychotherapy: an experimental study of transference interpretations. Am J Psychiatry. 2006 Oct;163(10):1739-46. doi: 10.1176/ajp.2006.163.10.1739.

  PMID: 17012684 RESULT

• Nissen-Lie HA, Dahl HJ, Hoglend PA. Patient factors predict therapists' emotional countertransference differently depending on whether therapists use transference work in psychodynamic therapy. Psychother Res. 2022 Jan;32(1):3-15. doi: 10.1080/10503307.2020.1762947. Epub 2020 May 13.

  PMID: 32404003 DERIVED

• Tallberg P, Ulberg R, Johnsen Dahl HS, Hoglend PA. Core conflictual relationship theme: the reliability of a simplified scoring procedure. BMC Psychiatry. 2020 Apr 6;20(1):150. doi: 10.1186/s12888-020-02558-4.

  PMID: 32252696 DERIVED

• Sorbye O, Dahl HJ, Eells TD, Amlo S, Hersoug AG, Haukvik UK, Hartberg CB, Hoglend PA, Ulberg R. Psychodynamic case formulations without technical language: a reliability study. BMC Psychol. 2019 Oct 24;7(1):67. doi: 10.1186/s40359-019-0337-5.

  PMID: 31651367 DERIVED

• Ulberg R, Ness E, Dahl HS, Hoglend PA, Critchfield K, Blayvas P, Amlo S. Relational interventions in psychotherapy: development of a therapy process rating scale. BMC Psychiatry. 2016 Sep 6;16(1):310. doi: 10.1186/s12888-016-1021-4.

  PMID: 27600314 DERIVED

• Ulberg R, Amlo S, Hoglend P. Manual for Transference Work Scale; a micro-analytical tool for therapy process analyses. BMC Psychiatry. 2014 Nov 18;14:291. doi: 10.1186/s12888-014-0291-y.

  PMID: 25404145 DERIVED

• Ulberg R, Amlo S, Hersoug AG, Dahl HS, Hoglend P. The effects of the therapist's disengaged feelings on the in-session process in psychodynamic psychotherapy. J Clin Psychol. 2014 May;70(5):440-51. doi: 10.1002/jclp.22088. Epub 2014 Mar 27.

  PMID: 24677205 DERIVED

• Ulberg R, Hoglend P, Marble A, Johansson P. Women respond more favorably to transference intervention than men: a randomized study of long-term effects. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2012 Mar;200(3):223-9. doi: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e318247cb6d.

  PMID: 22373759 DERIVED

• Hoglend P, Hersoug AG, Bogwald KP, Amlo S, Marble A, Sorbye O, Rossberg JI, Ulberg R, Gabbard GO, Crits-Christoph P. Effects of transference work in the context of therapeutic alliance and quality of object relations. J Consult Clin Psychol. 2011 Oct;79(5):697-706. doi: 10.1037/a0024863.

  PMID: 21859184 DERIVED

• Ulberg R, Hoglend P, Marble A, Sorbye O. From submission to autonomy: approaching independent decision making. A single-case study in a randomized, controlled study of long-term effects of dynamic psychotherapy. Am J Psychother. 2009;63(3):227-43. doi: 10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2009.63.3.227.

  PMID: 19845088 DERIVED

• Ulberg R, Johansson P, Marble A, Hoglend P. Patient sex as moderator of effects of transference interpretation in a randomized controlled study of dynamic psychotherapy. Can J Psychiatry. 2009 Feb;54(2):78-86. doi: 10.1177/070674370905400205.

  PMID: 19254438 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Mood Disorders; Anxiety Disorders; Personality Disorders

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Mental Disorders

Study Officials

• Per Høglend, M.D. Ph. D.

  Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Unoversity of Oslo

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: phase 2
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 16, 2007
• First Posted: January 18, 2007
• Study Start: January 1, 1993
• Study Completion: December 1, 2005
• Last Updated: August 27, 2007

Record last verified: 2007-08

Locations

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