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Interpersonal Change in Brief Supportive Psychotherapy

Received May 13, 1997; revised July 17, 1998; accepted July 23, 1998. From the Brief Psychotherapy Research Project, Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, New York. Address correspondence to Dr. Rosenthal, Department of Psychiatry 9F, Beth Israel Medical Center, First Avenue at 16th Street, New York, NY 10003.

As a substudy of a manual-based outcome study of the Beth Israel Brief Psychotherapy Program, the authors studied the efficacy of supportive psychotherapy in personality change, with particular attention to changes that outlast the period of treatment. They examined results from the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP) at intake, 40th-session termination, and 6-month follow-up in the first 20 subjects randomized to the supportive group. Eight subjects (40%) dropped out, but their initial IIP scores did not differ from those of follow-up completers. Six of 10 subjects with complete 6-month follow-up data showed significant improvement in interpersonal problems (4 cases P < 0.001; 2 cases P < 0.05). In a case method design, using the IIP mapped to an interpersonal circumplex model, the authors graphically demonstrate lasting positive changes in interpersonal functioning in subjects treated with supportive psychotherapy. (The Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research 1999; 8:55–63)

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