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This article reviews the meaning, use, and utility of supportive psychotherapy, a widespread treatment with an undeservedly malign birthright and history. This entails sorting through the historical definitions of supportive therapy and reviewing its good research track record achieved despite being the comparison condition. The author then defines brief supportive psychotherapy (BSP), a manualized, “common factors” treatment that has fared well in research settings, which may provide a model for clinical and research use in the future.

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Published online: 1 July 2014
Published in print: Summer 2014

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John C. Markowitz, M.D.

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Address correspondence to: John C. Markowitz, M.D., New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Dr., Unit #129, New York, NY 10032; e-mail: [email protected]

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