The Efficacy of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Lecture and Clinical Workshop with Jonathan Shedler, PhD
Psychodynamic therapy is an evidence-based treatment. The program will begin with a lecture and discussion, based on Dr. Shedler’s internationally acclaimed article, The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.
Dr. Shedler will describe the seven core features of contemporary psychodynamic psychotherapy in clear, jargon-free language, then discuss scientific evidence for the benefits of psychodynamic therapy and how it compares to other evidence-based treatments like CBT and antidepressant medication. Dr. Shedler will describe how the active ingredients of all effective psychotherapies draw on (often unacknowledged) psychodynamic principles, such as enhancing self-knowledge, identifying problematic relationship patterns, and addressing these patterns in the “here and now” of the therapy relationship.
The second half of the program will have a practical, hands-on clinical focus, building on concepts from the opening lecture. Participants will develop a deeper understanding of contemporary psychodynamic therapy through clinical case presentations by workshop participants, with case discussion, “live” clinical supervision, and role playing to demonstrate clinical interventions. Dr. Shedler will emphasize the centrality of transference and countertransference and the role of clinical case formulation as a roadmap to effective psychodynamic treatment.
Learning Objectives:
After attending this session, participants should be able to:
1. Describe seven distinctive features of contemporary psychodynamic therapy.
2. Define the concepts of effect size and meta-analysis.
3. Describe empirical evidence supporting psychodynamic therapy.
4. Develop a deeper understanding of clinical treatment process thorough case discussion, role play, and live clinical supervision.
Dr. Jonathan Shedler is the author of what may be most widely-read psychoanalytic paper of our time, The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. It won worldwide acclaim for firmly establishing psychoanalytic therapy as an evidence-based treatment, and has been downloaded more than a quarter of a million times by clinicians around the world. He has authored over 100 scientific papers in psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis. His is the first recipient of the American Psychoanalytic Association Scientific Paper Prize for his paper in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association on psychoanalytic personality diagnosis, and he is co-author, with Nancy McWilliams, of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM-2 and forthcoming PDM-3). Dr Shedler lectures and provides clinical to mental health professional around the world. He is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and a faculty member at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.