Specialized ISTDP therapy for high-achieving professionals navigating deep emotional blocks, unresolved patterns, and stress that traditional therapy hasn’t touched—from a therapist who understands the psychology of high performance.
The Quick Takeaway
ISTDP (Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy) is an evidence-based, emotion-focused therapy that helps high-achieving professionals break through deep emotional blocks in fewer sessions than traditional talk therapy. Backed by over 120 published studies, ISTDP targets the unconscious patterns driving anxiety, burnout, and somatic symptoms—delivering lasting change, not just coping strategies.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Cerevity
ISTDP Therapy: Fast, Deep Emotional Work
Complete Guide for High-Achieving Professionals
Last Updated: February, 2026
You’ve built an impressive career. You perform at the top of your field. But underneath the competence, there’s something that won’t quiet down—anxiety that won’t resolve, tension you carry everywhere, relationships that feel hollow despite your best efforts. You’ve maybe even tried therapy before and left feeling like you spent months talking about your week without ever touching what actually matters. Here’s what actually works — and what most advice gets wrong.
Table of Contents
– What Is ISTDP and Why Does It Affect High-Achieving Professionals?
– Why Online Therapy Works for High-Achieving Professionals
– How Does ISTDP Help With Deep Emotional Blocks?
– Common Challenges We Address
– Evidence-Based Treatment Approaches
– How Much Does ISTDP Therapy Cost?
– What the Research Shows
– Frequently Asked Questions
– Ready to Break Through What’s Holding You Back?
What Is ISTDP and Why Does It Affect High-Achieving Professionals?
Understanding the Emotional Cost of High Achievement
High-achieving professionals face emotional challenges that general therapy approaches often miss entirely:
🧠 Intellectualization as a Defense
You can analyze any problem—except your own emotions. Years of professional training have sharpened your cognitive abilities while quietly teaching you to bypass what you actually feel. Traditional therapy often reinforces this pattern by keeping everything at the level of discussion.
⚡ Chronic Emotional Suppression
You’ve learned to push through difficult feelings to maintain composure in high-stakes environments. Over time, this emotional suppression becomes automatic—you don’t even realize you’re doing it. The cost shows up as anxiety, irritability, or a persistent sense of emptiness that success can’t fill.
💪 Performance-Based Identity
Your self-worth is wired to achievement. Slowing down feels dangerous because without the accomplishments, you’re not sure who you are. This pattern often traces back to early relationships where love felt conditional on performance—and ISTDP is designed to reach exactly these roots.
🔒 Stress That Lives in the Body
Unexplained headaches, GI issues, chronic tension, insomnia. You’ve seen specialists, run tests, and everything comes back normal. ISTDP research shows that unprocessed emotions frequently convert into physical symptoms—and that resolving the emotional root can eliminate the physical problem.
🎭 Relational Disconnection
You can command a boardroom but struggle with emotional intimacy. Partners say you’re distant, unavailable, or shut down during conflict. The same defenses that make you effective at work—control, composure, strategic thinking—create walls in your closest relationships.
⏳ Therapy Frustration
You’ve tried therapy before—maybe more than once—and left feeling like it was too slow, too vague, or too focused on surface-level coping. You need an approach that matches your intensity and moves at the pace your mind works. ISTDP was specifically developed for exactly this kind of breakthrough work.
Research from Dalhousie University’s Centre for Emotions and Health indicates that ISTDP produces large effect sizes (Cohen’s d ranging from 0.84 to 1.18) across mood, anxiety, personality, and somatic disorders, with therapeutic gains maintained or even increasing at long-term follow-up.1
How Emotional Suppression Shows Up in High Performers
High-achieving professionals face additional unique challenges that make ISTDP particularly relevant:
🏋️ The Overwork-Avoidance Cycle
Many high achievers use relentless productivity as an unconscious defense against uncomfortable emotions. Working 70-hour weeks isn’t just ambition—it’s often a way to avoid sitting with grief, anger, or vulnerability. ISTDP helps you see this pattern clearly and experience the feelings you’ve been outrunning.
😶 Alexithymia and Emotional Blindness
Research shows that higher levels of alexithymia—difficulty identifying and describing emotions—are common among high-performing professionals. You know something is wrong but can’t name it. ISTDP specifically targets this disconnect, helping you develop direct access to emotional experience rather than just cognitive understanding.
🫀 Somatic Conversion
When emotions have no outlet, the body becomes the messenger. Chronic headaches, unexplained GI distress, tension that no massage resolves, shortness of breath with no cardiac cause. A 2022 meta-analysis found ISTDP outperformed CBT specifically for chronic pain conditions where emotional factors were contributing.
🪞 Imposter Patterns Beneath Success
The nagging feeling that you’ll be “found out” despite decades of evidence to the contrary. Traditional therapy might explore this cognitively, but ISTDP goes to the emotional root—often early experiences where your authentic self wasn’t enough, and performance became the only path to connection or safety.
😤 Compressed Anger and Guilt
Professionals who manage others, serve clients, or carry fiduciary responsibility often compress enormous anger beneath layers of duty and guilt. ISTDP research shows that mobilizing and experiencing these complex feelings—especially anger toward attachment figures—is the central curative factor in treatment.
🔄 Treatment Resistance
You’re not resistant to getting better—your unconscious defenses are doing exactly what they were designed to do: protect you from emotional pain. ISTDP was specifically developed to work with resistance rather than around it, helping you overcome the internal barriers that have kept previous therapy from reaching the core issues.
The Partner's and Family's Experience
If you’re the partner, spouse, or close family member of a high-achieving professional who seems emotionally shut down:
🤝 Emotional Unavailability
You feel like you’re living with someone who’s physically present but emotionally absent. Conversations stay surface-level. When you push for deeper connection, they withdraw, change the subject, or become irritable. It’s not that they don’t care—they literally don’t know how to access what they feel.
😔 Walking on Eggshells
The stress they carry from work spills into home life as short temper, impatience, or emotional shutdown. You’ve learned to manage around their moods rather than addressing what’s really happening. ISTDP can help your partner develop the emotional capacity that transforms how they show up at home.
💔 Loneliness Within the Relationship
From the outside, everything looks successful—the career, the home, the family. But inside the relationship, there’s a profound loneliness. You miss the person you fell in love with, or you wonder if they were ever truly emotionally available. Deep emotional work can unlock what’s been walled off.
🏥 Watching Health Deteriorate
You see them grinding through stress-related health issues—insomnia, digestive problems, chronic pain—while insisting everything is fine. They’ll see every specialist except a therapist who works with emotions directly. ISTDP’s focus on the mind-body connection makes it a natural fit for people whose stress has become physical.
🔇 Previous Therapy Didn’t Reach Them
They may have tried therapy before and dismissed it as ineffective. Smart, analytical people often run circles around traditional talk therapy—they intellectualize the sessions and leave without any real emotional shift. ISTDP is designed to work with exactly this kind of resistance, making it one of the few approaches that can actually reach high-functioning individuals who’ve been “therapy-proof.”
Why Online Therapy Works for High-Achieving Professionals
Practical Benefits of Online Sessions
Online ISTDP therapy solves practical challenges that make traditional in-office therapy difficult for high-achieving professionals:
🕐 Schedule Flexibility
Sessions available 7 days a week, 8 AM to 8 PM PST. No commute time, no waiting rooms, no gaps in your calendar that colleagues might notice. Fit deep therapeutic work into breaks between meetings, during travel, or from your private home office.
🔐 Complete Confidentiality
Private-pay means zero insurance records, no EOBs sent home, no diagnostic codes on file that could surface during background checks or licensing reviews. Your therapy stays completely between you and your therapist—no digital trail through insurance systems.
🏠 Emotional Safety of Your Own Space
ISTDP involves accessing deep, sometimes intense emotions. Being in your own private space—rather than a clinical office—gives you the comfort and safety to fully engage with this work. Many clients report that the privacy of home allows them to go deeper, faster than they could in an office setting.
How Does ISTDP Help With Deep Emotional Blocks?
ISTDP—Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy—works differently from most therapy approaches because it targets the unconscious emotional patterns that drive your symptoms, not just the symptoms themselves. Developed by Dr. Habib Davanloo through decades of video-recorded clinical research at McGill University, ISTDP is built on one central insight: most psychological suffering comes from emotions that were too painful or frightening to experience, so they were pushed out of awareness and replaced by anxiety, defenses, and physical symptoms.
For high-achieving professionals, this is particularly relevant. The very traits that make you successful—emotional control, analytical thinking, composure under pressure—are often the same defense mechanisms that keep you disconnected from what you actually feel. ISTDP doesn’t ask you to simply talk about your feelings or practice coping techniques. It actively helps you experience the emotions you’ve been warding off, in real time, within the safety of the therapeutic relationship.
What makes ISTDP intensive is that the therapist works actively with you to identify defenses as they arise in session—the moment you intellectualize, change the subject, minimize, or go numb. Rather than letting these patterns run the session (as often happens in traditional therapy), ISTDP gently but directly brings your attention to what you’re doing and helps you move past the defense to the feeling underneath.
This process is what researchers call “unlocking the unconscious”—and multiple studies have demonstrated that this experience is the central factor associated with positive therapeutic outcomes. When patients achieve this breakthrough, improvements in depression, anxiety, interpersonal functioning, and somatic symptoms tend to be large and lasting.
For executives, attorneys, physicians, and other high performers, ISTDP offers something rare: a therapy approach that matches your pace, respects your intelligence, and doesn’t waste time circling the surface. It’s designed to produce meaningful change in an average of 20 sessions—not years.
⚡ Rapid Access to Core Issues
Unlike approaches that spend months building rapport before addressing the real issues, ISTDP begins working with your emotional patterns from the first session. The initial trial therapy—often 1 to 3 hours—can produce significant symptom reduction and helps both therapist and client determine whether this approach is the right fit.
🔬 Lasting Structural Change
ISTDP doesn’t just reduce symptoms—research shows it produces measurable changes in personality structure and adaptive psychological functioning. This means the changes you experience aren’t temporary relief; they represent fundamental shifts in how you relate to yourself, your emotions, and the people around you.
Research from Dalhousie University demonstrates that the experience of “unlocking the unconscious” during ISTDP sessions predicts significantly better treatment outcomes, with patients who achieve major emotional breakthroughs showing moderate to large additional gains compared to those who do not.2
Creating Psychological Safety
Online ISTDP therapy also creates different emotional dynamics:
Permission to Feel Without Performing
For professionals who spend every waking hour managing perceptions, ISTDP offers a rare space where composure isn’t required. The therapeutic relationship itself becomes the vehicle for change—when defenses arise with your therapist, they become real-time opportunities to practice a different way of being.
Active Engagement, Not Passive Listening
High achievers often disengage from therapy that feels passive or unstructured. ISTDP therapists are highly active—they observe, intervene, and collaborate with you in real time. This keeps analytical minds engaged and prevents the intellectualizing that makes other therapy feel unproductive.
Body-Based Emotional Awareness
ISTDP pays close attention to how emotions manifest physically—tension in your chest, tightness in your throat, pressure behind your eyes. For professionals who live in their heads, this somatic focus provides a direct pathway to emotional experience that bypasses intellectual defenses.
Dignity and Directness
ISTDP respects your capacity. It doesn’t coddle or over-validate. The approach assumes you are strong enough to face what you’ve been avoiding—and that facing it, rather than managing around it, is the path to genuine freedom. For professionals accustomed to directness, this approach feels authentic rather than clinical.
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Common Challenges We Address
🧊 Emotional Numbness and Disconnection
The pattern: You’ve achieved everything you set out to achieve, but success feels hollow. You go through the motions at work and at home without feeling genuinely present. Partners and family members describe you as “checked out” or emotionally unavailable, and you know they’re right but can’t seem to change it.
What we address: ISTDP helps you identify the specific defenses creating emotional numbness—often dissociation or intellectualization that became automatic decades ago. By carefully working through these defenses in session, we help you reconnect with the full range of emotional experience, restoring vitality to both your professional and personal life.
🔥 Burnout That Won’t Resolve
The pattern: You’ve tried vacations, boundaries, even reduced hours—but the exhaustion persists. Standard burnout advice doesn’t work because your burnout isn’t just about workload. It’s rooted in deeper patterns: an unconscious belief that rest is dangerous, compressed anger about sacrifices you’ve made, or grief about the life you’ve traded for career success.
What we address: ISTDP goes beneath behavioral burnout interventions to the emotional core. We help you experience and process the feelings driving compulsive overwork—often anger, grief, or guilt connected to early attachment relationships—so that genuine rest and recovery become possible.
💊 Anxiety and Somatic Symptoms
The pattern: Persistent anxiety that doesn’t respond to standard treatment—or physical symptoms (migraines, GI distress, chronic pain, insomnia) that medical specialists can’t explain. You’ve run every test, seen every specialist, and everything comes back normal. The problem isn’t in your body—it’s in the emotions your body is carrying.
What we address: ISTDP has some of its strongest research evidence for somatic symptom conditions. By helping you experience and process the unconscious emotions converting into physical symptoms, ISTDP can resolve longstanding physical complaints that no other treatment has touched—often while simultaneously reducing healthcare costs.
💔 Relationship Patterns That Keep Repeating
The pattern: You keep ending up in the same relational dynamic—choosing partners who are emotionally unavailable, shutting down during conflict, or maintaining an emotional wall that no one can get past. You intellectually understand the pattern but can’t seem to break it. Previous therapy helped you see the pattern but didn’t change it.
What we address: ISTDP works directly with the transference—the way you relate to your therapist mirrors the way you relate to everyone else. By experiencing and resolving the unconscious emotions driving these patterns in real time, the relational shift happens experientially rather than just intellectually.
🎭 Perfectionism and Self-Sabotage
The pattern: Nothing is ever good enough—including you. You set impossibly high standards, punish yourself for falling short, and experience success as temporary relief rather than genuine satisfaction. Underneath the perfectionism is often a punishing inner critic tied to early experiences where love felt conditional on flawless performance.
What we address: ISTDP helps you access the grief, anger, and pain beneath perfectionism—the feelings you learned to suppress by being perfect. Processing these emotions loosens the grip of the inner critic and allows you to pursue excellence without the self-destructive edge.
😞 Treatment-Resistant Depression
The pattern: You’ve tried medication, CBT, maybe even other forms of therapy—and the depression persists. It may not look like classic depression; for high performers, it often shows up as loss of meaning, emotional flatness, or a quiet despair that coexists with outward success. You “have everything” and still feel empty.
What we address: ISTDP has specific research evidence for treatment-resistant depression. A randomized controlled trial found that ISTDP produced complete remission in 36% of treatment-resistant patients compared to just 3.7% receiving standard care—because it reaches the buried emotions that medication and cognitive approaches often can’t touch.
Evidence-Based Treatment Approaches
We draw from multiple research-supported approaches:
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP)
The cornerstone of our approach. ISTDP is an empirically validated, emotion-focused therapy that helps patients overcome internal resistance to experiencing true feelings. Through active therapeutic engagement, defense identification, and facilitated emotional experiencing, ISTDP produces rapid, deep, and lasting change across depression, anxiety, personality difficulties, and somatic symptoms. Meta-analyses show robust effect sizes sustained or increasing at long-term follow-up.
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
ISTDP sits within the broader psychodynamic tradition, which focuses on understanding how unconscious processes and early attachment relationships shape current patterns. Where traditional psychodynamic therapy may unfold over years, ISTDP accelerates this work through active techniques while maintaining the depth and relational focus that makes psychodynamic approaches uniquely effective for lasting personality-level change.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT complements ISTDP by helping clients develop psychological flexibility—the ability to be present with difficult internal experiences while taking action aligned with personal values. For high-achieving professionals whose lives have become organized around avoidance of difficult emotions, ACT provides frameworks for living a values-driven life rather than a defense-driven one.
Specialized Approach for High-Achieving Professionals
Our therapists understand the specific pressures, cognitive styles, and defense structures common among executives, attorneys, physicians, and founders. This isn’t generic therapy adapted for busy schedules—it’s a clinical approach informed by the specific psychology of high achievement, including the ways that success itself can become a barrier to emotional health and genuine connection.
Research from a 10-year meta-analysis of 57 randomized controlled trials demonstrates that experiential dynamic therapies including ISTDP are highly effective compared to no treatment, perform comparably to CBT in the short term, and show significantly better long-term outcomes—with therapeutic gains continuing to increase after treatment ends.3
How Much Does ISTDP Therapy Cost?
Investment in Your Emotional Freedom
At Cerevity, online ISTDP therapy sessions are competitively priced. The investment includes:
– Licensed therapist specializing in emotion-focused dynamic therapy
– Evidence-based approaches proven effective for treatment-resistant conditions
– Flexible online scheduling including evenings and weekends
– Complete privacy with no insurance involvement
– High-achiever expertise and understanding
– Outcome tracking and progress measurement
The Cost of Emotional Suppression Going Unaddressed
Consider what’s at stake when deep emotional blocks go unaddressed:
⚠️ Professional Consequences
Unprocessed emotions erode decision-making quality, leadership presence, and strategic thinking. Research shows that emotional suppression consumes cognitive resources—the mental energy you spend keeping feelings at bay is energy unavailable for the complex thinking your role demands. Over time, this leads to costly mistakes, missed opportunities, and diminished professional effectiveness.
💔 Relationship Deterioration
Emotional unavailability doesn’t just affect you—it progressively damages your most important relationships. Partners withdraw. Children stop confiding. Friendships become transactional. The relational cost compounds silently until a crisis forces the issue—often in the form of divorce, estrangement, or a devastating sense of isolation at the height of career success.
🏥 Escalating Health Costs
Somatic symptoms driven by unresolved emotions generate enormous healthcare spending—specialist visits, diagnostic tests, medications, procedures—none of which address the actual cause. ISTDP research consistently shows significant reductions in healthcare utilization and costs when the emotional root of physical symptoms is properly treated.
🕳️ Lost Years of Living
Perhaps the most significant cost is time. Every year spent managing around emotional pain rather than resolving it is a year lived at diminished capacity—professionally capable but personally hollow. ISTDP’s efficiency means you don’t have to spend years in therapy to access the kind of deep, structural change that transforms how you experience your life.
Research from multiple cost-effectiveness analyses indicates that ISTDP produces measurable improvements in symptoms, interpersonal functioning, and healthcare utilization, with benefits extending to reduced emergency department visits, decreased medication use, and lower overall healthcare spending.4
What the Research Shows
ISTDP is one of the most rigorously studied forms of psychodynamic therapy, with over 120 published outcome studies including more than 50 randomized controlled trials. The evidence base spans depression, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, somatic symptom conditions, and substance use disorders.
Meta-Analysis of ISTDP Outcomes (Abbass, Town & Driessen, 2012): A systematic review of 21 studies found pre-to-post treatment effect sizes (Cohen’s d) ranging from 0.84 to 1.18 compared to control conditions. The average treatment length was approximately 20 sessions. Critically, post-treatment to follow-up effect sizes suggested that therapeutic gains were maintained or continued to increase—a pattern rarely seen with other treatment approaches.
Treatment-Resistant Depression (Town et al., 2020): In a randomized controlled trial of patients with treatment-resistant depression, ISTDP produced complete remission in 36% of patients compared to just 3.7% receiving standard community mental health care at 6 months. This is particularly noteworthy given that these patients had already failed to respond to other treatments. Health economic analysis confirmed ISTDP was cost-effective compared to routine care.
Chronic Pain and Somatic Conditions (Abbass et al., 2022): A meta-analysis of 10 studies including 6 RCTs found that ISTDP showed large and lasting effects in reducing pain and depression, with additional benefits for anxiety and interpersonal functioning. ISTDP demonstrated superior outcomes compared to CBT in both short and medium-term follow-ups for chronic pain conditions.
These findings converge on a clear conclusion: ISTDP produces meaningful, lasting change across a broad range of conditions—often in significantly fewer sessions than traditional approaches, with effects that continue to strengthen after treatment ends.
“The central question isn’t whether you can handle the truth about what you feel—it’s whether you can afford to keep avoiding it. ISTDP is built on the premise that you are stronger than your defenses give you credit for, and that the path to genuine freedom runs through the emotions you’ve spent a lifetime managing around.”
Frequently Asked Questions
ISTDP (Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy) is specialized, evidence-based therapy designed to help people overcome deep emotional blocks rapidly. Unlike traditional talk therapy where you might spend months discussing your week, ISTDP actively works with your emotional defenses in real time. Your therapist identifies the moment you intellectualize, avoid, or shut down—and helps you move through the defense to the feeling underneath. This makes it particularly effective for high-achieving professionals like executives, attorneys, and physicians who’ve found traditional therapy too slow or too surface-level. CEREVITY provides this specialized support through secure telehealth across California, New York, and Massachusetts.
At CEREVITY, standard 50-minute sessions are $175, extended 90-minute sessions are $300, and 3-hour intensive sessions are $525. We’re private-pay only, which means complete confidentiality with no insurance records. While this costs more than insurance copays, it provides flexibility, privacy, and specialized expertise that insurance-based therapy can’t offer.
Privacy is foundational to our practice. As a private-pay practice, your sessions never appear on insurance records or EOBs that could be seen by employers or family members. We use HIPAA-compliant video platforms, and you can attend sessions from anywhere with a private internet connection—your car, a hotel room, a private office. Scheduling is flexible, and appointments don’t need to appear on any shared calendars.
Whether ISTDP therapy is “worth it” depends on what unaddressed emotional suppression is already costing you. High-achieving professionals who ignore burnout, anxiety, somatic symptoms, or relational disconnection often see consequences in their decision-making quality, leadership effectiveness, and personal relationships. Specialized therapy helps you perform at your best while actually enjoying your career and personal life — many clients say the ROI shows up in sharper decision-making, better relationships, and avoiding the costly mistakes that come from running on empty.
ISTDP is specifically designed to produce change faster than traditional approaches. Research shows the average treatment course is about 20 sessions, and the initial trial therapy (1-3 hours) can produce significant symptom reduction for many patients. Many high-achieving professionals notice meaningful shifts within 4-6 sessions — reduced physical symptoms, better emotional access, clearer thinking. Deeper work on entrenched patterns like perfectionism, emotional suppression, or treatment-resistant depression typically unfolds over 3-6 months of consistent sessions. Some clients transition to monthly maintenance sessions once they’ve built a strong foundation. We track progress throughout and adjust our approach based on what’s actually working for you.
Yes. CEREVITY therapists specialize in high-achieving professionals and understand the specific psychology of performance-driven individuals—the intellectualization, the emotional suppression, the identity fusion with professional role. We understand that you can’t openly discuss vulnerabilities without career risk, that your analytical mind will try to run circles around passive therapy, and that generic stress tips are insulting to someone managing the complexity you manage. Our approach is built for professionals who need a therapist as sharp and direct as they are, using ISTDP techniques specifically designed to work with—not around—the defenses that make high achievers “therapy-proof.”
Ready to Break Through What's Holding You Back?
If you’re a high-achieving professional struggling with emotional numbness, treatment-resistant symptoms, or patterns that traditional therapy hasn’t touched, you don’t have to choose between professional success and emotional freedom.
CEREVITY provides specialized, private-pay ISTDP therapy that understands both the psychology of high achievement and the deep emotional work required for lasting change, with flexible scheduling, complete privacy, and practical approaches that fit demanding professional lives.
Available by appointment 7 days a week, 8 AM to 8 PM (PST)
About Maria Gonzalez, Psy.D
Dr. Maria Gonzalez is a licensed clinical psychologist at CEREVITY, a boutique concierge therapy practice serving high-achieving professionals throughout California, New York, and Massachusetts. With specialized training in psychodynamic therapy, narrative therapy, and ACT, Dr. Gonzalez brings deep expertise in helping accomplished individuals navigate career transitions, identity questions, and the invisible burdens of high achievement.
Her work focuses on helping clients develop clarity during uncertainty, integrate the different parts of who they are, and build lives that honor both their ambitions and their deeper values. Dr. Gonzalez’s culturally informed approach creates space where nuance is welcome and where your full experience—professional, personal, and cultural—can be honored.
References
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2. Johansson, R., Town, J., & Abbass, A. (2014). Davanloo’s Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy in a tertiary psychotherapy service: Overall effectiveness and association between unlocking the unconscious and outcome. PeerJ, 2, e548. https://peerj.com/articles/548/
3. Lilliengren, P., et al. (2024). Experiential dynamic therapies: A comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Psychotherapy Research. https://istdp-hub.com/istdp-research/
4. Town, J., Abbass, A., Stride, C., & Bernier, D. (2020). Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy for treatment resistant depression: 18-month follow-up of the Halifax depression trial. Journal of Affective Disorders, 273, 194-202. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32421603/
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