The Effectiveness of Integrated Psychodynamic Group Therapy on Depressed Women's Ego Function

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Ph.D. Student in Clinical Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Rudehen Branch, Tehran, Iran. (Corresponding Author)

2 . Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Rudehen Branch, Tehran, Iran.

3 Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.

Abstract

From the view of psychodynamics, depression comes from an anger directed at oneself and he/she chooses a feeling of guilty as a punishment. The ego function is to properly control the pressure of feelings affected by instincts for evacuation. The present research aimed to examine the effectiveness of integrated psychodynamic group therapy on depressed patients' ego function with a quasi-experimental method and pretest-posttest design with a control group and a follow-up phase. The population was the depressed women referring to Balagh Clinic in the city of Qom, and 32 women were purposefully selected and were randomly placed in the test and control groups. The data were gathered with Bellak's ego function questionnaire in the phases of pretest and posttest, and the test group received 12 sessions of the protocol of integrated psychodynamic group therapy. The data were analyzed by ANOVA with repeated measures. The Eta coefficient was 0.74 (P<0.01) and the findings demonstrated that there is a significant difference between the test group and control group in terms of the ego function and the rate of depression. Therefore, the integrated psychodynamic group therapy has a good effect on depressed women's ego function and it can be used for decreasing the rate of depression among women.

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