Does Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Work?
A ground-breaking research study conducted by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust* provides important evidence of the effectiveness of psychoanalytic psychotherapy for men and women suffering from depression compared to other therapies including CBT.
The study, which started over 10 years ago, followed participants for two-years after their therapy sessions were completed to look at long-term therapeutic effects. It found nearly half of patients still saw major improvements two years after therapy had ended.
Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4592654/
What does the Psychodynamic Psychotherapy involve?
Many people find it difficult to talk about their problems with someone that they do not know. If you haven't experienced therapy before it's understandable that you may have some anxieties about what to expect. Therefore, it’s important for us to explore together any anxieties you may have and over the course of sessions I will endeavour to help you manage issues that may be difficult or upsetting to talk about & try to understand what life is like for you.
See also:
'Therapy wars: the revenge of Freud', The Guardian (7th January 2015)
Leichsenring, F., Klein, S., (2014). Evidence for Psychodynamic psychotherapy; A systematic review, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 28, 4-32. which points to the effectiveness of psychodynamic psychotherapy in the treatment of depression, anxiety, sleep disturbance, certain eating disorders, (BPC LINK)
*published in World Psychiatry (October 2015, Vol 14 Number 3)
