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With students being inundated with only short-term outcomes, protocols, and manualized treatments, many undergraduate and graudate programs students are taught therapy as if it began with cognitive-behavioral worksheets and deep breathing.Psychodynamic psychotherapy is not just another approach, it is the theory from which nearly every modern therapy emerged. From the early work of Sigmund Freud, …
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Beyond Symptom Relief: The Depth Work of Psychodynamic TherapyPsychodynamic therapy continues to evolve with a focus on research and being an evidence-based treatment. A 2023 meta-analysis by Leichsenring and colleagues examined 27 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing psychodynamic therapy (PDT) to other treatments (e.g., CBT) for depression. The study found PDT to be equally effective …
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Twenty years ago, saying “psychodynamic psychotherapy is evidence-based” was a good way to get dismissed as “old school” or "outdated." Today, if someone still says that, they are not describing the data and evidence, they are describing their own bias and perhaps knowledge gap.Over the last 20–30 years, the empirical picture has flipped. Meta-analyses of …
When people think about Psychodynamic treatment they often think it focuses only on one’s childhood, sexual impulses, and unconscious content. This is partly true, as portions of psychodynamic treatment focus on the quest to make the unconscious, conscious. However, psychodynamic treatment also focuses on gaining awareness of thoughts, feelings, and patterns based on past relationships …
Dr. Alex Rowell 