PMID: 11907594Mar 22, 2002Paper

Psychotherapy of bipolar disorder

Vertex : revista argentina de psiquiatriá
P Retamal C, V Cantillano A

Abstract

Nowadays, it exists evidence that Bipolar Disorder have a less favourable forecast that it was thought. However, there are drugs that prevent recurrences and they dominate therapeutic management. Psychosocial disturbs that are caused by that Disorder make necessary psycotherapeutic interventions. That article includes a description of three psychotherapies (Group Psychotherapy, Family Psychotherapy and Interpersonal Psychotherapy) addressed to this group of patients.

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