This review aimed to evaluate the economic impact of ISTDP to provide a quick reference for commissioners and decision-makers tasked with reducing healthcare costs. This article identifies evidence of substantial reductions in hospital, physician, medication and disability costs following ISTDP treatment in mental health and functional somatic conditions.

These results may be of specific interest to healthcare commissioners and service providers seeking clinically effective treatment in real world conditions who are also mandated to reduce costs and save money. Similarly, governing bodies at the federal or state level aiming to reduce financial social care burden and improve workforce productivity may also be interested in the outcome of this review.

This library provides a curated list of some of the major reviews and meta-analyses exploring the ISTDP’s empirical base. It details studies on cost-effectiveness in public healthcare, its use for functional neurological and somatic disorders (including chronic pain), and its broader efficacy across depression, anxiety, personality disorders and other conditions. The page emphasizes areas where ISTDP shows strong outcomes—including long-term symptom improvement and reductions in healthcare and disability costs—and highlights how the method has been implemented and studied internationally (for example, in Norway).

This is a a curated collection of multimedia content, including podcasts, news-articles and video material, focused on the method of Intensive Short‑Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP). It features content such as a podcast episode on functional neurological disorder (FND) and its overlap with multiple sclerosis, an interview with Leo Russell about integrating ISTDP into multidisciplinary care, a news article highlighting a patient’s recovery from functional disorder through ISTDP, and presentations by leading figures in the field.

We offer an accredited three-year core training programme based at Exeter University’s historic Reed Hall. Five face-to-face teaching blocks of two days per year, plus three online seminars with special guest speakers, and an annual in-person conference. Learn the theory and practice of ISTDP including the underpinning psychoanalytic and attachment principles, psychodiagnosis, fostering conscious and unconscious therapeutic alliance, working with resistance, working with ego fragility, facilitating the experience of complex transference feelings, and unlocking the unconscious.