Study	Reason for exclusion
Appelbaum 1986	Allocation: not randomised, description of organisation of psychotherapy wards.
Armstrong 1991	Allocation: randomised. Participants: unclear. Interventions: life skills programme in day hospital versus supportive psychotherapeutic milieu in day hospital; not psychoanalytic or psychodynamic therapy.
Azima 1959	Allocation: unclear. Methods: drugs given and observations collected using a double‐blind method, likely A‐B‐C‐A crossover trial. Interventions: phenobarbital or reserpine, not psychodynamic therapy.
Bellak 1973	Allocation: not randomised, case report.
Cancro 1987	Allocation: not randomised, review.
Carpenter 1984	Allocation: not randomised, review.
Carpenter 1993	Allocation: not randomised, review.
Chiesa 1999	Allocation: random. Participants: not people with schizophrenia.
Chodoff 1982	Allocation: not randomised, review.
Cormier 1987	Allocation: not randomised, before and after study.
De Socarraz 1978	Allocation: random. Participants: neurotic patients, not people with schizophrenia.
Docherty 1984	Allocation: not randomised, review.
Dyrud 1973	Allocation: not randomised, review.
Epstein 1981	Allocation: not randomised, review.
Falloon 1983	Allocation: random. Participants: people with schizophrenia. Intervention: family therapy and supportive individual therapy, not psychodynamic therapy.
Friedman 1973	Allocation: not randomised, review.
Gabbard 1997	Allocation: not randomised, review.
Gillieron 1980	Allocation: not randomised, survey and factorial analysis of a questionnaire.
Glick 1974	Allocation: randomised. Participants: people with schizophrenia. Interventions: short versus long hospitalisation, not psychoanalytic therapy.
Green 1984	Allocation: randomised. Participants: people with schizophrenia. Interventions: type of psychotherapy, no further details (author contacted, no reply).
Guthrie 1997	Allocation: random. Participants: people without psychosis (personal communication from Dr Guthrie).
Harding 1994	Allocation: not randomised, review.
Hogarty 1997	Allocation: random, no further details. Participants: people with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. N=186. Interventions: personal therapy, family psycho‐education, combined personal therapy and family psycho‐education or supportive therapy. Personal therapy seemed to have a definition akin to cognitive behavioural therapy. "Through a process called 'internal coping', personal therapy encouraged the patient to identify the affective, cognitive and physiological experience of stress."
Jones 2001	Allocation: randomised. Participants: people with auditory hallucinations. Interventions: cognitive behavioural therapy versus standard care, not psychodynamic therapy.
Kaplan 1985	Allocation: not randomised.
Karon 1969	Allocation: randomised. Participants: people with schizophrenia. Interventions: psychoanalytic individual therapy versus ego analytic therapy versus supportive psychotherapy versus medication. Outcomes: psychological tests (Thorndyke Gallup Vocabulary, Porteus Mazes, WAIS IQ test, VVT), use of medication (no usable data).
Karon 1984	Allocation: not randomised, review.
Klerman 1984	Allocation: not randomised, review.
Krull 1987	Allocation: not randomised, review.
Lindberg 1981	Allocation: non randomised, matched pairs retrospective study.
Luborsky 1975	Allocation: not randomised, review.
Matthews 1981	Allocation: randomised. Participants: people with schizophrenia. Interventions: practitioners 'A' versus practitioners 'B' (according to level of experience in psychotherapy). Outcomes: no usable data.
Matussek 1974	Allocation: not randomised, cohort study.
May 1984	Allocation: not randomised, review.
Mueser 1990	Allocation: not randomised, review and editorial.
Muller 1978	Allocation: not randomised, review.
Muller 1984	Allocation: not randomised, review.
Res. committee 1975	Allocation: not randomised, review.
Resch 1994	Allocation: not randomised, review.
Roback 1972	Allocation: randomised. Participants: men, n=24 (20 diagnosed with schizophrenia). Interventions: interpretive group therapy versus interactive group therapy. Outcomes: self rating of insight, psychometric tests (no usable data).
Rogers 1967	Allocation: randomised. Participants: people with schizophrenia, with people without schizophrenia as controls. Interventions: therapeutic relationships, no psychodynamic therapy.
Rohriht 2001	Allocation: randomised. Participants: people with schizophrenia. Interventions: body‐oriented psychotherapeutic intervention versus standard care; body‐oriented psychotherapy have as their primary principle to overcome communication barriers through the introduction of non‐verbal techniques; not psychoanalytic or psychodynamic therapy.
Rubins 1974	Allocation: not randomised, review.
Schachter 2001	Allocation: random. Participants: unclear if schizophrenia.
Schneider 1993	Allocation: not randomised, review.
Scott 1995	Allocation: not randomised, review.
Silverman 1978	Allocation: not randomised, review.
Sines 1961	Allocation: participants allocated to 'psychiatric aides'. Participants: 40 people with schizophrenia, 7 "mental defectives" and 13 other diagnoses. Interventions: twice weekly meetings of 50 minutes for the purpose of 'improving the patients psychiatric and behavioural status'; during the 50 minutes, aides engaged in various activities, none of which resembled psychodynamic therapy.
Sjostrom 1990	Allocation: randomised. Participants: people with schizophrenia. Intervention: psychotherapy with dynamic elements versus standard care. Outcomes: no usable data.
Stevens 1973	Allocation: not randomised.
Sverdlov 1980	Allocation: not randomised.
Tarrier 1999	Allocation: randomised. Participants: people with chronic schizophrenia suffering residual psychotic symptoms. Interventions: cognitive behavorial psychotherapy.
Tienari 1986	Allocation: not randomised, review.
Volterra 1996	Allocation: randomised. Participants: people with schizophrenia. Intervention: group and individual psychotherapy (plus haloperidol 2 mg/day) versus drug treatment alone. Outcome: no data available (Congress abstract).
Vora 1977	Allocation: randomised. Participants: clinic attenders who received therapy in excess of one year, 53% neurotic, 47% either psychotic or characterological disorders, data not presented for people with schizophrenia alone.
Werbart 1988	Allocation: not randomised, review.
Young 1979	Allocation: randomised. Participants: people with schizophrenia (n=141) and 94 with other diagnoses. Interventions: long versus short hospitalisation and therapists A‐B‐scores, not psychodynamic psychotherapy.