“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
General
Psychotherapy
A video explaining psychotherapy developed by The School of Life [3min 12sec].
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxuZiqY5ypU
What is Therapy For?
A companion piece to the above video, from The Book of Life.
http://www.thebookoflife.org/why-you-need-to-go-and-see-a-therapist/
Therapy wars: the revenge of Freud
This article explores the differences between shorter term cognitive-behavioural and longer-term psychoanalytic approaches.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jan/07/therapy-wars-revenge-of-freud-cognitive-behavioural-therapy
Psychotherapy for Normal People
Kate Ryan’s essay is an enlightening exploration of her psychotherapy journey. Her essay was a finalist in the Melbourne Prize for Literature, 2015.
https://griffithreview.com/wp-content/uploads/Melbourne-Writers-Prize-2015-Final-Proof.pdf
What I’ve Learned from my Years on the Couch
http://theweek.com/articles/599228/what-ive-learned-from-years-couch
American Psychological Association Recognition of Psychotherapy Effectiveness, 2012
"The general or average effects of psychotherapy are widely accepted to be significant and large.”
http://www.apa.org/about/policy/resolution-psychotherapy.aspx
From Donald Winnicott to the Naughty Step
D.W. Winnicott’s broadcasts on the BBC from 1943-1962. Winnicott introduced the concept of ‘good enough’ mothering.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s7v7b
Listening for Clues to Mind’s Mysteries: ‘The Examined Life’ describes Psychoanalysis’s power
A New York Times review of Stephen Grosz’s The Examined Life: How we lose and find ourselves, 2013.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/09/books/the-examined-life-by-stephen-grosz.html
The Therapy Relationship in Psychodynamic Therapy versus CBT: A therapy relationship is more than an ‘alliance’
Jonathan Shedler discusses how the therapeutic relationship is a critical factor in psychotherapy. "What the patient does in the room with the therapist reveals lifelong relationship patterns. And in the therapy relationship, these patterns can be recognized, understood, and reworked."
Making Sense of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
A booklet developed by the British Psychoanalytic Council
"This booklet is an introduction to psychotherapy and psychoanalysis...[it] looks at the main approaches and explains what the differences are, what you can expect from psychotherapy, and how to find a good therapist."
https://www.bpc.org.uk/download/494/Mind-opt.pdf
What is psychoanalytic psychotherapy?
A page from the British Psychoanalytic Council explaining psychoanalytic psychotherapy
https://www.bpc.org.uk/information-shttps://www.bpc.org.uk/information-support/what-is-therapy/ort/what-is-therapy/
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
A page from the American Psychoanalytic Association explaining psychoanalytic psychotherapy
Evidence Base
For information on empirical support/evidence base for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy see the following papers and websites:
Institute of Psychoanalysis/British Psychoanalytical Society
“There is a growing body of research into the effectiveness of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Researchers have demonstrated good evidence for the positive effects of psychodynamic therapies for various psychological disorders.” The review of evidence for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from the British Psychoanalytical Society can be found here:
https://www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/resources/evidence-base-of-psychoanalytic-psychotherapy
Shedler, J. (2010). The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, American Psychologist, 65(2), 98–109
http://jonathanshedler.com/PDFs/Shedler%20(2010)%20Efficacy%20of%20Psychodynamic%20Psychotherapy.pdf
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: What’s the evidence?
https://www.bpc.org.uk/information-support/the-evidence-base/
Fonagy, P. (2015). The effectiveness of psychodynamic psychotherapies: an update, World Psychiatry, 14, 137-150
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26043322
Leichsenring, F. & Klein, S. (2014). Evidence for psychodynamic psychotherapy in specific mental disorders: a systematic review, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 28, 4-32
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02668734.2013.865428
The Tavistock Adult Depression Study (TADS)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4592654/
Leichsenring, F. et al. (2015). Psychodynamic therapy meets evidence-based medicine: a systematic review using updated criteria, The Lancet Psychiatry, 2 (7), 648 - 660
http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanpsy/PIIS2215-0366(15)00155-8.pdf
Goodyer, Ian M et al. (2016) Cognitive behavioural therapy and short-term psychoanalytical psychotherapy versus a brief psychosocial intervention in adolescents with unipolar major depressive disorder (IMPACT): a multicentre, pragmatic, observer-blind, randomised controlled superiority trial. The Lancet Psychiatry, 4 (2), 109 - 119
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366%2816%2930378-9/fulltext
Merits of Psychodynamic Therapy (September 2010. Harvard Mental Health Letter)
https://bgsp.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Harvard-Mental-Health-letter-psychodynamic-therapy.pdf
Australian Associations
Victorian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association of Australasia Inc.