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  • This is a link to an Institute of Psychoanalysis webpage, which gives an overview of the growing evidence base of psychoanalytic psychotherapy:

    https://psychoanalysis.org.uk/resources/evidence-base-of-psychoanalytic-psychotherapy

  • The powerful benefits of psychodynamic therapy are underlined by Jonathan Shedler in this 2010 article, which appeared in Scientific American: Mind

    https://jonathanshedler.com/PDFs/Shedler Scientific American.pdf

  • In this 2010 American Psychologist paper, Jonathan Shedler sets out the empirical evidence in support of the efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy,:

    https://jonathanshedler.com/PDFs/Shedler (2010) Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.pdf

  • This 2008 paper by David Taylor, published in the journal Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, outlines the evidence base for the psychoanalytic treatment of depression:

    http://repository.tavistockandportman.ac.uk/236/1/Taylor_psychoanalytic....depression.pdf

  • This is a link to a Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust webpage which reports the findings of The Tavistock Adult Depression Study (TADS), looking at the benefits of long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the treatment of chronic depression:

    https://tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/research-and-innovation/our-research/research-projects/tavistock-adult-depression-study-tads/

  • And, from World Psychiatry (2015), this is the Research Report into the Tavistock Adult Depression Study (TADS):

    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/wps.20267

  • In this 2017 article, Jonathan Shedler challenges some of the received wisdom in relation to psychotherapy research:

    https://jonathanshedler.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Shedler-2018-Where-is-the-evidence-for-evidence-based-therapy.pdf

For further details of the Institute's professional services and activities, and to enquire about the various categories of membership available, please contact:

David Smith (Chair)
niinstitutehr@gmail.com

Shahrzad Hashemi (Hon Secretary)
niihrsecretary@outlook.com

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Northern Ireland Institute of Human Relations
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Northern Ireland

Developing Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Northern Ireland Since 1990. A Member Organisation of both the Irish Council for Psychotherapy and the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy.