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The effectiveness of intensive short term dynamic psychotherapy in decrease of depression level

Bita Ajilchi, Hasan Ahadi, Vahid Najati and Ali Delavar

Studies indicate the fact that depressed people have got emotional disorders; since the intensive short term dynamic psychotherapy is emphasized on the adjustment of these emotions, hence, the present study has been carried out the efficacy of intensive short term dynamic psychotherapy in decrease of depression level. The related study is of experimental type. The pre test and post test has consisted of control group with two groups of subjects (depressed people); the community of the related study include the whole people (male and female) ranging from 19-40 year old with depression who referred to a clinic in Tehran Mega-city; these people were selected as randomly after separation using Beck questionnaire and unstructured diagnostic interview based on DSMIV; from 32 people with depression were moderate to high level (cut of over 21) who 16 of these people were taken up in the study and other 16 ones were in the waiting list; these people were similar together in terms of sex, age, marital status, job and education; then, the intensive short term dynamic psychotherapy was carried out on these people. While, in control group, no any intervention was happened. The analysis of data was achieved by independent T test in both groups to evaluate the similarity of the groups and single variance analysis (ANCOVA) was also applied for assessing the depression. The results of the study indicate that there is a significant difference between the groups in terms of depression decrease level so that in experimental group the significance level of depression was p<0.05 after intervention. The findings of the present research have considerable descriptions in relation to the role of this therapeutic method in decrease of depression level.