Interpersonal psychotherapy

We're going to look at the role of psychotherapy and explore the general principles, relative indications, relative contraindications, and limitations of five modalities.

Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, dialectical behavioral therapy, or DBT, acceptance and commitment therapy, or ACT, interpersonal therapy, or IPT, And finally, psychodynamic therapy.

I'm Victoria Meng, a third year medical student at McMaster University.

I'm joined by two colleagues to explore this topic.

It is indicated in major depressive disorder, especially in patients experiencing major identity changes or interpersonal stresses.

Limitations are that it is not indicated in other conditions, including trauma, and it may be less useful if interpersonal concerns are not a major contributor to symptoms or illness.

If you want more detail, check out our long episode number 42 on interpersonal therapy.

And finally, psychodynamic therapy is a long-term form of therapy that's rooted in psychoanalytic theory, but with less rigidity.

There are other additional psychological treatments that some people may benefit with if they're struggling with bulimia.

One of them is interpersonal psychotherapy, and we often call it IPT.

And it focuses on the relationship difficulties and the life changes that contribute to emotional distress that may lead to the benching and perching behaviors.

For Sandra, that might involve examining how leaving the competitive athletics that she was doing affected her identity now that she's in graduate school and how the pressures of graduate school could influence her self-esteem.

So I specialize in interpersonal psychotherapy for reproductive mental health.

That's another mouthful too.

IPT.

But really, one of the things, one of the goals is to be able to help individuals or partners as well reduce the stress related to reproductive mental health concerns and help them improve quality of life.

build and strengthen their relationships, you know, really help them better understand what to expect when expecting, but the real deal, so to speak.