OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether a mixed population of patients treated with Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) would exhibit reduced healthcare costs in long-term follow-up. METHODS A quasi-experimental design was employed in which data on pre- and post-treatment healthcare cost were compared for all ISTDP cases treated in a tertiary care service over a nine year period. Observe...

Background: Somatic symptom disorders are common, disabling and costly. Individually provided short-term psychodynamic psychotherapies (STPP) have shown promising results. However, the effectiveness of STPP for somatic symptom disorders has not been reviewed. Methods: We undertook a systematic review of randomized controlled trials and controlled before and after studies. The outcomes included ...

BACKGROUND There are no randomised clinical trials comparing the outcomes of short- with long-term psychodynamic group psychotherapy. AIMS To compare differences in outcome during and after short- and long-term group psychotherapy. METHOD In total, 167 out-patients with mood, anxiety and personality disorders were randomised to short- or long-term group therapy (20 or 80 weekly, 90 min sess...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to assess the impact of a 4-week group psychotherapy on the efficacy of physiotherapy in patients rehabilitated in a nursing home (NH). MATERIALS AND METHODS The study was performed on 28 women, aged 77.1 (±5.6) years. Thirty-six percent were rehabilitated due to orthopaedic injuries, 36% had undergone a stroke, 28% suffered from chronic diseases of old age. ...

Somatization, anxiety, depression and personality disorders are common features of many patients with chronic headaches. Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) is a brief therapy method developed specifically to treat patients with this cluster of somatic problems, symptoms and maladaptive behaviours through focusing on how the patient handles emotional experiences. It also contains...

The aim of psychotherapy – individual or group psychotherapy – is to bring about change in painful feelings, distorted perceptions of self and others, dysfunctional behavior, etc. While there are many systematic studies of short term individual and group psychotherapy, researches of long term psychotherapy such group analytic psychotherapy is, hardly exist. The practice of group psychotherapy h...