What Keeps Working: Shedler’s “The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy”
In 2010, Clinical Psychologist Jonathan Shedler published a paper in American Psychologist, the flagship journal of the American Psychological Association. He gave it a deliberately plain title: “The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.” The plainness was the point. For decades, psychoanalytic treatment had been dismissed as...