The big advertising spenders are promoting what they have to sell, which is not necessarily what’s best for you. Decades of research show that therapies of depth, insight and relationship are highly effective, evidence-based treatments.

PsiAN created a toolkit as a source of both information and inspiration for members as they take on the very important task of advocating for therapies of depth, insight and relationship.

Efficacy Studies in Psychotherapy. Resources and Guidelines.

PsiAN has released its first book! Advancing Psychotherapy for the Next Generation: Humanizing Mental Health Policy and Practice.

Article by Linda Michaels our Chair and Co-Founder, What People Need and Want from Therapy: Advancing Access to Quality Care, is about PsiAN's market research to a general audience, highlighting key results that support therapies of depth, insight and relationship.

You’ve probably been hearing a lot about “evidence-based” treatments these days. And maybe you’re unsure what that means.

Resources and Guidelines Regarding Evidence-Based Treatment.

Psychotherapy has grown and evolved over the past 130 years. Building on decades of clinical experience, academic research, and an ever-growing evidence base, psychotherapy today is a modern, relevant, and highly effective treatment for people suffering from all sorts of emotional and psychological problems.

PsiAN issued a comment to the American Psychological Association (APA) regarding the Guideline Update Panel's (GUP) proposed framework for updating the PTSD guidelines.

This wonderful new article in the American Prospect, The Fight for Mental Health Parity, does a fantastic job outlining the impacts of telehealth and the concerns over what happens to access to care when the public health emergency ends.

A great new article by Linda Michaels, our Chair and Co-Founder, What People Need and Want from Therapy: Advancing Access to Quality Care. Linda brings PsiAN's market research to a general audience, highlighting key results that support therapies of depth, insight and relationship.

Comments to the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) on anxiety/depression screening.

In this Grand Rounds presentation, our chair and cofounder Linda Michaels presents our research results and recommendations at the Austen Riggs Center. Therapies of depth, insight, and relationship have been missing from, if not pushed out of, the public conversation on mental health treatment.

PsiAN penned a letter and petition with nearly 2,500 signatures to the Federal Trade Committee (FTC) and the Attorneys General of New York, Illinois, and California to object to the misleading business practices of CareDash.com (now defunct).

Dr. Reidbord is a San Francisco psychiatrist discusses a less intense derivative called dynamic psychotherapy, and how it decreases sessions to once or twice a week and does away with the analytic couch. 

The Good, The Bad, and The Depraved— Embracing Your Inner Life Through Therapy. A look at the ongoing conversation between the therapist, the patient, and the “depraved character” can enable the patient to tolerate, accept, and perhaps even come to like, all of their internal characters.

PsiAN has concerns about Talkspace as a company, and the category of apps and asynchronous texting positioned as psychotherapy. Lionda Michaels talks about Kara Swisher’s interview of Oren Frank, CEO of Talkspace, on the July 22, 2021, in an episode of her podcast Sway.

Santiago Delboy and Linda Michaels hosted a special presentation for PsiAN members covering the large-scale original research study PsiAN conducted examining the general public’s attitudes, beliefs, and biases about therapy.

Dr. Reidbord, a San Francisco psychiatrist, and editor of the Forum, discusses how psychotherapy training programs never advise students to “fake sincerity.”  Therapies of depth, insight, and relationship are founded on genuine human connection, which can’t be duplicated with AI.

Dayna Sharp, a relational psychotherapist and licensed clinical social worker, talks about how some therapy clients want souvenirs to remind them they’ve been in therapy. But what if focusing on souvenirs in therapy adds to the anxiety and fear, and distracts us from what’s really important—the relationship and the experience?