ABSTRACT
Research on integrated psychotherapy treatments for cyclothymia is scarce. Chapter 7, “Cyclothymic Disorder,” describes the symptoms, diagnosis, prevalence, and causes of cyclothymic disorder, provides explanations for the development and maintenance of cyclothymia, and discusses how to implement integrated and unified psychotherapy in practice for cyclothymic disorder. The chapter highlights the concept of balance among different psychological perspectives and, in the end, includes a clinical case example that demonstrates an integrative treatment approach for a woman with cyclothymia, an approach that is comprised of a sequential integration of one therapy perspective that targets her symptoms of depression and another therapy approach for her symptoms of hypomania.
