Pim Cuijpers

Do we know how psychotherapies work? Read this fascinating article in Knowlable Magazine by Katherine Ellison. “It is as if we have been in a pilot phase of research for five decades”

In September I will officially retire, but will continue with parts of my scientific work. I will give 4 webinars in September on the leading theme of my work in the past decades: How can we reduce the disease burden of depression on the population level. The webinars describe my work on four subthemes: (1) Preventing the onset of depressive disorders; (2) Digital interventions and the need to develop scalable interventions for global mental health; (3) How to improve the effectiveness of psychological interventions for depression (and how meta-analyses can contribute to that); and (4) A research agenda for further reductions of the disease burden of depression.
Read here an interview I gave on these webinars and why I want to give an interim overview of my work on these topics (and follow me for more information about the webinars)

https://vu.nl/en/news/2023/interview-with-pim-cuijpers-professor-of-clinical-psychology

Are you interested in what science says about the effects of therapy? Listen to theinterview that Dr. Anya Borissova had with me on The Thinking Mind Podcast

CBT, behavioral activation, problem-solving therapy and life-review therapy are effective in the treatment of older adults with depression. Our new network meta-analysis shows that these therapies are more effective than care-as-usual, waitlist and supportive therapy (although the effects of supportive therapy may be underestimated, because it is often used as control condition). Read the paper that was just published in International Psychogeriatrics

With Clara Miguel, Eirini Karyotaki, Mathias Harrer

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inpsyc.2026.100213