Nonverbal synchrony in short term psychodynamic psychotherapy for depression
Keren Cohen & Sigal Zilcha-Mano
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is ranked as a large contributor to global disability and a leading cause to overall worldwide burden of disease. Therefore, the demand for treating depression is on the rise globally and great effort is invested in research for improving and optimizing its treatments. Several meta-analyses and empirical studies found psychotherapy to be an effective treatment for depressive disorders. However, questions have been raised about the ability to evaluate the progress and efficacy of psychotherapy and there is a need to find more objective and less resource-consuming methods to do so. The aim of the present research is to explore nonverbal synchrony in psychotherapy for MDD and its ability to serve as an indicator of the progress and efficacy of therapy.