Time-Limited Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

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In this engaging and thought-provoking presentation, Dr. Schmidt Neven challenges prevailing assumptions about time-limited treatment models, particularly the dominance of CBT as the only evidence-based short-term modality. Drawing on decades of clinical and teaching experience, Dr. Schmidt Neven introduces a dynamic, time-limited psychodynamic model that is both relational and contextual—applicable to work with adults, children, adolescents, and parents.

Rather than viewing behaviours as merely symptoms of dysfunction, this approach considers behaviour as meaningful communication. Presenting problems are reframed as expressions of lived experience: adults ‘speak’ their life stories, while children ‘speak’ the emotional landscape of their families. Dr. Schmidt Neven highlights how brief psychodynamic interventions, grounded in reflective capacity and meaning-making, can provide lasting internal change and emotional resilience.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this talk, participants will be able to:

• Describe the principles and structure of time-limited psychodynamic psychotherapy

• Contrast this approach with commonly held assumptions about both CBT and long-term psychodynamic treatment

• Recognise behavioural symptoms as meaningful expressions of emotional and relational experience

• Apply a reflective, psychodynamically informed stance to brief clinical work with both adults and children

• Understand how short-term psychodynamic interventions can foster enduring internal change and resilience

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