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The written records of 1,348 patients treated at Columbia University's Psychoanalytic Clinic and the responses of therapists to a follow-up questionnaire were studied to relate clinical change and predictions of outcome made at the time of admission. Predictions were associated with the type of treatment offered, with the function of the observer, and the completion of long-term analysis.
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This study was supported by the Health Research Council of New York under grant No. U-1286. Supplementary and pilot study support was provided by the Psychoanalytic Clinic and the Department of Psychiatry's fluid research fund, Columbia University.
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Weber, J.J., Moss, L.M., Bradlow, P.A. et al. Predictions of outcome in psychoanalysis and analytic psychotherapy. Psych Quar 48, 117–149 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01574316
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