Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy
Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) is a time-limited, structured psychotherapy, typically delivered over 16 weekly sessions. It aims to help you understand the connection between presenting symptoms and what is happening in your relationships by identifying a core repetitive pattern of relating that can be traced back to childhood. Once this pattern is identified, it will be used to make sense of difficulties in relationships in the here-and-now that could be contributing to psychological stress. This type of therapy uses what happens in the relationship between you and your psychotherapist to help think about the problems in your life. This means that your therapist often draws your attention to what you feel in the session.
The idea is that by exploring the relationship between you and your therapist, you get a better understanding of what is troubling you. Therapy comes in many forms, each having a particular focus and emphasis. DIT focuses mostly on relationship problems. When a person is able to deal with a relationship problem more effectively, his or her psychological symptoms often improve. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines for depression state that brief psychodynamic therapy is one option that can be considered for depressed patients either when the patient has not responded to CBT interventions or where the patient actively opts for a psychodynamic approach.
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