Despite a rich theoretical and clinical history, psychodynamic child and adolescent psychotherapy has been slow to engage in the empirical assessment of its effectiveness. This
Is Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Evidence-Based? The public—and many clinicians—often assume that it is not. In fact, many university courses teach that only cognitive-behavioral approaches have current
Peter Fonagy, head of the department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology at University College London and co-originator of Mentalization-based Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder