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.

Intensive, longer-term treatment is needed by many, and not only is it highly effective—it's cost-effective.

Connecting with a therapist can be an overwhelming and daunting process, whether you’ve done it before or not. Here’s our roadmap to help you find a therapist who values depth, insight, and relationship.

Many rely on Medicare, but we increasingly see the government turning Medicare over to private insurance companies. Here's our paper outlining the privatization of Medicare - its historical roots and potential implications.

PsiAN supports tools and technologies when they increase access to quality care of lasting benefit, but we are concerned with profit-driven apps, websites and platforms seeking revenue by discarding the therapeutic relationship, violating standards of professional practice ethics, and putting their commercial interests ahead of the best interests of patients.

Publications and Articles Regarding the Efficacy of Treatment. Are psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapies effective?

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.

An article by our Co-Founder, Linda Michaels, on therapies that endure/stick. She outlines the evidence base for therapies of depth, insight and relationship, and highlights the false narrative around quick fixes.

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

A comprehensive compilation of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) involving psychodynamic treatments and interventions. By, Peter Lilliengren of Stockholm University.

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 issues comments to the Federal Trade Commission on BetterHelp, regarding BetterHelp sharing customer data internally, with Facebook, and others for advertising purposes.

A List of Mental Health Data Bases and Libraries.

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. 

PsiAN joins the Kennedy Forum and other major mental health organizations in protesting the reversal of the Wit v UBH ruling.

Our profession must take a firm stand against interference with therapy wherever possible. Therapy-interfering behavior, which amounts to practicing without a license in many cases can exist for reasons having to do with improper motivations to frame therapy for the benefit of others and not the client, thereby harming the latter.

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.

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.

PsiAN was featured in The New York Times, in an article on therapy bots. PsiAN co-chair, Linda Michaels, was quoted in a NYT article on Woebot, a therapy app that uses AI to deliver CBT-style interventions.

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?