Presentation of the study and informed consent procedures
chronic depression, trauma
The study will be presented to potential participants. Documents explaining the study, with its aims, procedures, benefits and risks for the participants will be provided to the participants. Interested subjects will be given a period to consider whether they would like to participate and the research team will be at their disposal to answer their eventual questions on their participation. Subjects confirming their interest in participating will then be asked to provide their informed consent to be randomly assigned to one of the treatment settings, to participate in the diagnostic, MRI, and psychometric procedures, to agree that some psychotherapy sessions are audio recorded, and agree to participate in the follow-up measurements). Participants with chronic depression and early life trauma will then be randomized in one of the two intervention groups.