1. Defining the Psychotherapies

2. Research and Practice: Methodological Considerations and Their Influence on This Review

3. Psychotherapy Research, Health Policy, and Service Provision, Glenys Parry, Anthony Roth,

and Peter Fonagy

4. Depression

5. Bipolar Disorder

6. Anxiety Disorders I: Specific Phobia, Social Phobia, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Panic Disorder with and without Agoraphobia

7. Anxiety Disorders II: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

8. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

9. Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Binge-Eating Disorder

10. Schizophrenia

11. Personality Disorders

12. Substance Abuse: Alcohol, Cocaine, and Opiate Dependence and Abuse

13. Sexual Dysfunctions

14. The Psychological Treatment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders, Mary Target

and Peter Fonagy

15. Effectiveness of Psychological Interventions with Older People, Robert Woods

and Anthony Roth

16. The Contributions of Therapists and Patients to Outcome

17. Conclusions and Implications

Appendix I. Converting Effect Sizes to Percentiles

Appendix II. An Illustration of Commonly Used "Clinically Intuitive" Ways of Representing the Outcome of Trials

Appendix III. Contrast between Prevalence Rates from Different Epidemiological Surveys