Kees L M Cornelissen, Anna Bartak, Marijke A de Haan, Joel M Town
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Abstract
Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) delivered in an individual therapy (vs. group) format has proved to be an effective treatment option for a broad range of patients with treatment-resistant mental health conditions. A novel residential program based on ISTDP was designed for patients whose personality disorders were treatment resistant (N=155), meaning that patients did not benefit from outpatient psychotherapy. The authors proposed that a specific treatment approach-residential ISTDP-can be a treatment option for patients with personality disorders. This article describes the ideas and characteristic features of how ISTDP was integrated within an innovative residential treatment program to accelerate change processes and reduce health care consumption.
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Founded in 1939, the American Journal of Psychotherapy (AJP) has long been a leader in the publication of eclectic articles for all psychotherapists. Transtheoretic in reach (offering information for psychotherapists across all theoretical foundations), the goal of AJP is to present an overview of the psychotherapies, subsuming a host of schools, techniques, and psychological modalities within the larger domain of clinical practice under broad themes including dynamic, behavioral, spiritual, and experiential.