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Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP)

Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP)  is a revolutionary method of psychotherapy with a well-established and robust evidence base. ISTDP comprises a set of powerful techniques to alleviate symptoms of emotional distress and to promote mental health in a rapid and cost-effective manner.

ISTDP emphasises the importance of experiencing core emotions. At Working Minds, our ISTDP therapists focus on interventions which address anxiety and defences in order to bolster emotional processing and to free patients from distressing symptoms and maladaptive patterns of relating to themselves and to others.

Symptoms include psychological problems like anxiety and depression, but they also include physical symptoms without medically identifiable cause, such as headache, shortness of breath, diarrhoea, or sudden weakness. The ISTDP model attributes these to the occurrence of distressing situations where painful or forbidden emotions are triggered outside of awareness.

The treatment is not a “one size fits all” model: it is tailored to the individual’s anxiety tolerance. If the patient has an extremely low tolerance for anxiety, the treatment first helps to build anxiety tolerance and ability to reflect on body cues and thoughts. When anxiety tolerance improves, the patient will start to be able to safely experience emotions.

This treatment and variants of it have been extensively researched and shown to be effective with some patients with depression, anxiety, somatic symptoms, substance abuse, eating disorders, and personality problems. Modified forms of ISTDP have been used with patients with psychotic disorders and bipolar disorder.

References

  • Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy, (2020, August 24)

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