what is talk therapy, and how does it help to treat depression?
Dr. Leuchter: It’s a very good question. There are many different types of talk therapy. Many of the most popular forms of therapy these days are brief, what we call structured psychotherapy. So it’s a limited number of sessions that are much more focused on perhaps the conflicts in somebody’s life or the ways that they are thinking or behaving that may be helping to get them depressed or keep them depressed. There are other types of therapy such as psychoanalysis or more exploratory psychotherapies that might look more into the past that would be longer term that would look more at what some of the earlier roots of depression might be in somebody’s life. Whatever type of psychotherapy is used, though, psychotherapy has been shown in multiple studies to be extremely helpful to patients grappling with depression. Elizabeth: Okay. Marisa, a question for you then, can every person who is depressed be helped by talk therapy, or are there some for whom it just won’t work? Ms. Kallman: Well,
