Evidence-Based Psychotherapies The Interpersonal Fulcrum— Interpersonal Therapy for Treatment of Depression

treatment of individuals with nonbipolar, nonpsychotic ma-jor depression (1). Currently, the Canadian and American Psychiatric Associations recommend IPT as a treatment for depression (2,3). Empirical evidence supporting its efficacy has grown since its early use, as has the breadth of its clini-cal application (4,5). This article reviews the principles and objectives of this type of treatment along with the relevant research supporting its efficacy. The model is briefly de-scribed, and the phases of therapy and the focal interper-sonal strategies are discussed. Klerman, Weissman and others (1,4) emphasized the sci-entific core of psychotherapy by articulating IPT in a research context and establishing its efficacy with empiri-cal data. However, its practice remains an art (1,4,5). Bowlby commented that the practice of psychotherap