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The Efficacy of Experiential Dynamic Therapies: A 10-Year Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Update.
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- Affect-focused psychodynamic psychotherapy for mothers diagnosed with cancer - A feasibility study.Internet interventions · 2026Article
- On the meaning of "plasticity" in neuroscience and mental health research and its relation to the action of psychedelic therapy.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- Reframing "flat affect" and withdrawal in severe mental illness: a within-subject, culture- and medication-sensitive heuristic for social psychiatry.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- From symptoms to function: the PAD-S decision matrix for severe mental illness-a transdiagnostic clinical translation framework for ICD-11/ICF-aligned psychotherapy documentation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Effectiveness and mechanisms of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy for treatment-resistant depression: a reanalysis of a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Developmental co-calibration and therapeutic recalibration: a neurobiopsychosocial model of regulatory path dependence in psychosomatic care.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Twelve-month outcomes and comparative costs of internet-delivered psychodynamic therapy versus cognitive-behavioral therapy for adolescent depression: a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Depth-oriented group psychotherapy for moral injury with military veterans: relational psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theory, mechanisms of action, and clinical implications.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
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Abstract
There is a growing interest in clinical interventions targeting emotion regulation difficulties across mental health conditions. Experiential dynamic therapies (EDTs) are transdiagnostic, affect-focused, short-term psychodynamic therapy models that emphasize in-session emotional processing. This review provides a 10-year update on the efficacy of EDTs for mood, anxiety, personality and somatic symptom disorders in adults and children/adolescents. A comprehensive search identified 57 randomized controlled trials (n = 4330) conducted in Western (k = 38; n = 3178) and non-Western countries (k = 19; n = 1152) between 1978 and 2024. Random-effects meta-analyses on primary outcomes indicated large, significant effects for EDTs compared to inactive controls at post-treatment (Hedge's g = -0.96; k = 41) and follow-up (g = -1.11; k = 20). Compared to active controls, effects were small and non-significant post-treatment (g = -0.17; k = 27) but became significant at follow-up (g = -0.40; k = 19), suggesting a potential modest long-term advantage of EDTs. Despite substantial heterogeneity (I
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