The assessment phase of brief psychodynamic psychotherapy (BPP) is of great importance to treatment because the tasks of taking a history, assessing mental status, developing a descriptive diagnosis, evaluating the patient for candidacy, and collecting relationship episodes allow the therapist to develop...
They concluded that in order to effectively evaluate outcomes in psychodynamic therapy, relevant measures must expose changes in the main conflictual relationship pattern and changes in the patient's awareness of that pattern.Kirk M. LunnenBenjamin M. Ogles...