Brief Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy

"We are short of neither psychodynamic therapies nor acronyms. Inevitably, by developing dynamic interpersonal therapy (DIT) and publishing the first edition of this book in 2011, we added to an already long list. Why, then, did we do this? DIT's techniques and theoretical underpinnings are not novel and will be broadly familiar to psychodynamically trained practitioners. Rather than offering a new model of psychodynamic therapy, DIT was first developed in response to the erosion of provision of psychodynamic therapy within the public health care system, and the high demand for brief interventions in the private sector"--