a case study of intensive and short-term psychodynamic therapy on reducing the symptoms of persistent depressive disorder in women

Background: persistent depressive disorder is very common in women. in this study, theeffectiveness of short-term scanning psychotherapy was evaluated and positive results wereobtained from the effectiveness of this treatment.method: the baseline method was used for five subjects. initially, the scores of depressions inthe three baseline positions, intervention and tracking of each subject are described on adescriptive drawing and interpretation chart; the stability of the scores in terms of mean line,middle line and trend line. has been investigated. then, in order to make inferentialinterpretations and conclusions from these graphs, in-situ, out-of-situ analysis and changes insimilar situations of each graph are performed and for each subject, the research hypotheses areanalyzed.in this study, a single case method (a-b-a) was used to analyze the information. finally, at theend of each session, beck test was taken again to determine the effectiveness of short-termintensive psychotherapy on the improvement of their persistent depressive disorder. tests weretaken from patients at the end of each session.results: this study was also analyzed based on visual analysis, trend index and stability index,percentage of overlapping data and percentage of overlapping data.conclusion: the results show that short-term dynamic psychotherapy is effective in treatingpersistent depressive disorder in women in isfahan.