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Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention Advance Access originally published online on February 29, 2008
Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention 2008 8(2):164-170; doi:10.1093/brief-treatment/mhn001
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A Naturalistic Study of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy Trial Therapy

   Allan A. Abbass, MD, FRCPC
   Michel R. Joffres, MD, PhD
   John S. Ogrodniczuk, PhD

From the Centre For Emotions and Health and Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University (Abbass), the Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University (Joffres), and the Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia (Ogrodniczuk)

Contact author: Dr. Allan Abbass, Centre For Emotions and Health, 8th Floor, 5909 Veterans Memorial Lane, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 2E2, Canada. E-mail: allan.abbass{at}dal.ca.

The objective is to study the effectiveness of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) trial therapies. In a tertiary psychotherapy service, Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP) medication use, and need for further treatment were evaluated before versus 1-month post trial therapy in a sequential series of 30 clients. Trial therapies were interviews with active focus on emotions and how they are experienced. The interviews resulted in statistically significant improvements on all BSI subscales and one of the IIP subscales. One-third of clients required no further treatment, seven stopped medications, and two returned to work following trial therapy. The ISTDP trial therapy appeared to be clinically effective and cost effective. Future research directions are discussed.

KEY WORDS: trial therapy, consultation, psychodynamic, psychotherapy

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