Part 4 provides a fairly recent meta-analysis by Leichensring & Klein (2013) that in our view contains a digestible information in an otherwise highly technical field of controversial debates. This report clearly conveys that for serious psychological disorders such as depression and generalized anxiety, longer psychodynamic-psychoanalytic treatments do generate have substantial effects. As information about the cost of mental illness becomes more comprehensive and as the cost of psychological distress is increasingly recognized, it is clear that the psychoanalytic approach will emerge as a valid and viable alternative for the treatment of mental disorder, notwithstanding the allure of more appealingly packaged alternatives. Assuming that the relevant readership would the psychoanalytic clincians we decided to omit the section on measures as the second edition is still available on IPA´s homepage (http://www.ipa.org.uk/IPA_Docs/Open%20Door%202002.pdf). In part 5 the ODR-3 assembles all the bibliographic references that have been quoted in part 3. Additionally it provides in part 6 an additional reading list that had been assembled by the American Psychoanalytic Association (recommended by J. Clarkin). For all potential contributors that we missed or who did not submit in time there is the good news that we plan a net-based version of the ODR-3 that will allow to easily add, update or even delete contributions . As members of the research committee of the IPA we are proud of what we have been able to produce and we are grateful for the support and encouragement we have received from the IPA administration.
As mark of our gratitude we are pleased to dedicate this volume to the former president of the IPA, Robert S. Wallerstein, who sadly passed away some months ago. He was one of the first presidents of the IPA who consistently and courageously supported research and tried to build bridges between clinicians and researchers.
Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber & Horst Kächele
Editors in commission of the Research Committee of the IPA July 2015
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