Aim and Background: Rheumatoid arthritis is the most common inflammatory rheumatic disease. In most communities, its prevalence is approximately 3%. Anxiety has been reported as one of the most common displeasing psychological experiences in rheumatoid arthritis patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) on reducing anxiety in rheumatoid patients. Methods and Materials: This study was a quasi-experimental study with pre-test and post-test design along with a control group. The statistical population of the study included patients with rheumatoid arthritis who had visited rheumatology clinics in Kerman during the research. We purposefully selected 40 males and females patients with rheumatoid arthritis as a statistical sample. Then the members of the sample group were randomly divided into two 20-memebr parts as experimental and control groups. For the experimental group, 15 one-anda-half-hour sessions of intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy was performed once a week and individually. Research data was analyzed using analysis of covariance and SPSS 19 software. Findings: After reviewing the pre-test scores between the experimental and control groups, the results of the study indicated that intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy is effective in reducing anxiety scores in rheumatoid patients (p<0. 05). Conclusions: The use of psychodynamic concepts and techniques in understanding anxiety disorders, seems to be very important. Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy considerably helps to reduce anxiety as well as clinical symptoms in rheumatoid patients by affecting the discharge path of anxiety and careful control and moment-by-moment monitoring of anxiety, emotions, and defenses.

Aim and Background: Rheumatoid arthritis is associated with an increased risk of various types of psychological afflictions. Indication of these disorders is added to the erosive factors of chronic disease and has many negative effects on the level of adaptation and mental and social health of these people. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) on reducing alexithymia in rheumatoid patients. Methods and Materials: The present research was a quasi-experimental study with pre-test, post-test design as well as control group. In order to select the sample, first of all, based on the criteria of the American Rheumatology Association and the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 40 male and female patients were purposefully selected from specialized rheumatology clinics in Kerman. This selection was made by rheumatologists. The members of the sample group were randomly divided into two 20-memeber groups of experimental and control. For the experimental group, 15 one-and-a-half-hour sessions of intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy were held. Data were collected through Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS). Research data were analyzed using Analysis of covariance. Findings: The findings showed that intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy is effective in reducing the rate of alexithymia in rheumatoid patients (p <0. 05). Conclusions: Patients first performed better in recognizing emotions and then improved their ability to describe emotions and physical symptoms. Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy by affecting on anxiety discharge pathway and exact control and moment-by-moment monitoring of anxiety, feelings and defenses helps to reduce clinical symptoms in rheumatoid patients.

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to measure the body temperature changes in the process of central dynamic sequence in intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy.Case Description: The sample consisted of a patient who was voluntarily chosen. The research design was case study method.Results: The body temperature (hand temperature, forehead temperature) was measured during treatment protocol, using biofeedback machine.A nonparametric test K independent sample was used for data analysis.Conclusion: The intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy changes the body temperature. The body temperature is a sign to review the protocol and determine the level of anxiety and the patient’s defenses.

Relationship with parents plays an important role in the lives of adolescents. Conflict in the relationship causes long-term and serious damage which occurs in adolescents. This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy on improving mother-child relationship is the opposite. This quasi-experimental study with pretest and posttest approach with a 2-month-old follow-up. 16 women with children that criterion for entry to the study were randomly selected to be available in both experimental and control groups were replaced. Parent-child conflict questionnaire was used to evaluate the experimental variable. Intervention in 8 sessions were performed on women. Pretest and posttest and follow-up was 2 months, and data were collected on children. Complex multivariate analysis of variance (within a group Mass), and multivariate analysis of variance revealed a mixed two-way between the pretest and posttest, but there is a pretest and posttest control group was not different. This difference was persistent in the pursuit of two months. The results showed that intervention of intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy in improving the quality of mother-child relationship conflict has a positive impact. This effect was significant in a 3-scale questionnaire. Results showed that the effectiveness of intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy on both sexes was significant, and there was no significant difference between girls and boys in treatment outcomes.

Introduction: Loss is one of the most difficult and stressful events that a person can experience, and losing a child is the most difficult. The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy on the meaning of life and death anxiety of bereaved mothers.. Materials and Methods: The research method was quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design and follow-up with a control group. The statistical population was all women aged 30 to 50 who lost a child due to suicide, who referred to Imam Reza and Sina Hospitals in Tabriz in 2023. A number of 30 people were selected by convenience sampling and randomly assigned into two equal groups. The experimental group received intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy during 8 sessions. The control group did not receive any treatment. The research tools were the Meaning of Life Questionnaire by Steger and the Death Anxiety Scale by Templer. Data were analyzed by two-way analysis of variance with repeated measurements and Bonferroni's post hoc test. Results: In comparison to the control group, intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy increased the meaning of life of bereaved mothers in the post-test (p<0.001) and decreased their death anxiety (p<0.001). The treatment effect was permanent in the follow-up phase on the meaning of life (p<0.001) and death anxiety (p<0.001) variables. The effect of this treatment on the meaning of life and death anxiety in the post-test and follow-up stages was similar. Conclusion: It seems that intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy improves the meaning of life and reduces the death anxiety of bereaved mothers. Therefore, it can probably be a useful treatment to reduce psychological problems and create a meaning for life in bereaved mothers.

Bakcground & Aims: : Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder characterized by persistent impairment in reciprocal social interaction, delayed or distorted communication, and a limited stereotyped communication pattern. The aim of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of short-term dynamic psychotherapy on cognitive distortions in working mothers with autistic children. Methods: The present study was applied in terms of purpose and semi-experimental research method with a pre-test and post-test design. The research ethics code is IR. IAU. TON. REC. 1401. 076, which has been approved by the Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon Branch. Among the working mothers with children with autism who referred to the rehabilitation center in Tehran, who underwent the necessary examinations for neurological and psychiatric diseases and psychotic disorders and no abnormalities or mental disorders were seen in them, 20 people were selected through convenience sampling and randomly divided into two groups of10 people, experimental and control. Both groups completed the 20-question cognitive distortion questionnaire of Abdollahzadeh and Maryam Salar (2010) before and after the intervention. Each of the questionnaire questions is rated on a 1-5 scale (strongly agree, agree, no opinion, disagree, and strongly disagree) and measures the cognitive distortions proposed based on Albert Ellis's theory, and each irrational thought is assigned 2 statements. Thus, distortion number one (all-or-nothing thinking) statements 1 and 2, distortion number two (overgeneralization) statements 3 and 4, distortion number three (mental filter) statements 5 and 6, distortion number four (ignoring the positive) statements 7 and 8, distortion number five (judging and predicting, including mind reading and wrong thinking) statements 9 and 10, distortion number six (macro and micro) statements 11 and 14, distortion number seven (emotional reasoning) statements 12 and 13, distortion number eight (the phrase should be better) statements 15 and 16, distortion number nine (labeling) statements 17 and 18, distortion number ten (personalization) statements 19 and 20 have been measured. The experimental group then attended 9 sessions, two 60-minute sessions per week, according to the short-term intensive psychodynamic approach, and received the necessary treatments. Finally, the data were analyzed using analysis of variance and SPSS version 23 software. Results: The results showed that intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy had a positive and significant effect on reducing cognitive distortions (p ≤0. 05) in working mothers of autistic children with cognitive distortions. Conclusion: Short-term dynamic psychotherapy can be used to reduce cognitive distortions and, consequently, to improve the mental health of mothers of autistic children with cognitive distortions. Conclusion: The aim of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of short-term intensive dynamic psychotherapy on cognitive distortions in working mothers with autistic children, and the results are as follows. According to the research hypothesis, the short-term intensive psychodynamic approach is effective on cognitive distortions in working mothers in the post-test. The result of the present study showed that at a significance level of 0. 05, cognitive distortions in the subjects of the experimental group had a significant decrease after short-term intensive psychodynamic therapy. In other words, short-term intensive psychodynamic therapy had a significant effect on reducing cognitive distortions in working mothers in the experimental group. This result was consistent with the results of previous studies (1). In explaining the results, it can be said that in this method, thoughts and feelings are accepted as they are. On the other hand, by creating insight in patients, it provides the basis for obtaining better treatment results. By increasing psychological and mental acceptance of internal experiences, in fact, active and effective confrontation with thoughts and feelings, avoiding avoidance, changing the view of oneself and the story in which the individual has imposed the role of victim on himself, reviewing values ​​and goals in life, and ultimately positive beliefs about oneself and self-efficacy can be considered as the main effective factors in this treatment method. In the short-term intensive psychodynamic approach, the therapist helps the client experience real repressed feelings without suppressing them, making value judgments about them, and experiencing secondary emotions such as shame and guilt after experiencing this behavior, thought, and feeling (2). The results of the present study are consistent with the results of previous studies (3) and confirm the effectiveness of short-term intensive psychodynamic therapy on rumination. Therefore, it can be concluded that intensive short-term dynamic therapy has improved the mental health of mothers with autistic children compared to the control group. The results of the hypothesis show that intensive short-term psychodynamic therapy has been effective on mental health. The results of the present study showed that it was in line with the results of other colleagues' research (5) in this field. Cognitive distortions are the strongest predictors of depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and anxiety disorders. People with cognitive distortions experience distortions in their thoughts such as overgeneralization, hasty conclusions, and personalization of things, and these negative thoughts can be traced to persistent and uncontrollable internal attributions. Cognitive researchers have called the moment-to-moment stream of consciousness of ideas, beliefs, or images automatic thoughts (6). The results confirm the effect of short-term intensive psychodynamic intervention on cognitive distortions in working mothers of children with autism,therefore, it is recommended that this type of intervention be used under the supervision of a specialist to reduce cognitive distortions and, consequently, improve the mental health of mothers and children.

Background and aims: Cancer is impressive on different aspects of life, including mental health. The present research aimed to investigate and compare the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy (CBT) and intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) on self-compassion in cancer patients. Methods: An experimental study with pre-test/post-test and with control group was designed. Among women with cancer in Gorgan city in 2020, 30 people were selected and randomly divided into three groups (two experimental and one control groups). Neff's self-compassion scale was used in the pre-test and post-test to collect data. The intervention of ISTDP and CBT was conducted in 11 sessions of 90 minutes over two month. The control group remained on the waiting list. Data analysis was performed by covariance statistical analysis. Results: According to the findings ISTDP and CBT have a significant effect on self-compassion in cancer patient (p<0. 01). However, no significant difference was found in the effectiveness between ISTDP and CBT Conclusion: Based on the results, ISTDP and CBT increase the self-compassion in cancer patients. Nevertheless, there is not significant diffrence between the effectiveness of these two treatments.

Objective The present study aims to compare the effects of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) on death anxiety of women with breast cancer. Methods This is a quasi-experimental study with a pre-test/post-test design. The study population includs all women suffering from breast cancer covered by the Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation in Gorgan, Iran in 2021. Of these, 30 were selected and randomly divided into two intervention groups of CBT and ISTDP and one control group. Ghorbani’, s death anxiety scale in Persian was used to measure death anxiety before and after the interventions. The intervention groups received the interventions at 11 sessions each for 90 minutes, while the control group put on the waiting list. Data analysis was performed by the analysis of covariance in SPSS software, version 26. Results Both CBT and ISTDP were effective in reducing the death anxiety of patients (P<0. 05). There was no significant difference between them (P>0. 05). Conclusion CBT and ISTDP can reduce the death anxiety of women with breast cancer. There is no significant diffrence between them.