[Functional somatic symptoms - short-term psychodynamic therapy can be helpful].

Patients with functional somatic symptoms or medically unexplained symptoms are very common in the healthcare system but they do not always receive adequate care or treatment. These patients struggle with a low quality of life and constitute a high cost to the healthcare system. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a relatively common treatment intervention and helps many patients, but not all.

It turned into something else: patients' long-term experiences of transitions to or from telepsychotherapy during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Introduction: The shift from in-person therapy to telepsychotherapy during the COVID-19 pandemic was unprepared for, sudden, and inevitable. This study explored patients' long-term experiences of transitions to telepsychotherapy and back to the office.

Methods: Data were collected approximately two years after the declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic.

"I didn't have to look her in the eyes"-participants' experiences of the therapeutic relationship in internet-based psychodynamic therapy for adolescent depression.

To explore young people's perceptions of the relationship with the therapist in internet-based psychodynamic treatment for adolescent depression. As a part of a randomized controlled trial, 18 adolescents aged 15-19 were interviewed after participating in treatment. Interviews followed a semi-structured interview schedule and were analyzed using thematic analysis.

[Patients who are difficult to help. Attachment perspectives].

Attachment theory and research show that a patient's attachment pattern, shaped in close relationships, affects A) the ability to describe symptoms in a structured and detailed manner, and B) the ability to trust physicians' conclusions and concerns. If physicians are observant of patients' unstructured, intense or avoidant communication during consultation, they can adjust their communication accordingly and avoid misunderstandings and excessive health care consumption. A patient with insecure ambivalent attachment needs initial empathic listening, whereas a patient with insecure avoidant attachment benefits from a respectful distance.

Demanding and effective: participants' experiences of internet-delivered prolonged exposure provided within two months after exposure to trauma.

: The use of remotely delivered early intervention after trauma may prevent and/or reduce symptoms of post-traumatic stress. Our research group evaluated a novel three-week therapist-guided internet-delivered intervention based on prolonged exposure (Condensed Internet-Delivered Prolonged Exposure; CIPE) in a pilot trial. The results indicated that the intervention was feasible, acceptable and reduced symptoms of post-traumatic stress at post-intervention compared to a waiting-list condition.

"We Just Did Not Get on". Young Adults' Experiences of Unsuccessful Psychodynamic Psychotherapy - A Lack of Meta-Communication and Mentalization?

In order to avoid suboptimal psychotherapy, research needs to highlight and analyze obstacles in such treatments. This clinically oriented article brings together empirical material of unsuccessful psychotherapy with young adults; empirical material on the therapists' views of the same therapies; and theoretical perspectives on mentalization, therapeutic alliance, and young adulthood. Through a secondary qualitative analysis, it presents a tentative process model of how suboptimal psychotherapy with young adults develops, how it could be handled clinically, and possibly prevented.

"It was like having half of the patient in therapy": Therapists of nonimproved patients looking back on their work.

To explore therapists' experiences of therapeutic process in psychoanalytic psychotherapy with nonimproved young adults. Eight nonimproved cases were identified according to the criterion of reliable and clinically significant change in self-rated symptoms. Transcripts of therapist interviews (8 at baseline and 8 at termination) were analyzed applying grounded-theory methodology.

"Spinning one's wheels": Nonimproved patients view their psychotherapy.

Objective: To explore psychotherapy experiences among nonimproved young adults in psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

Method: A two-stage, mixed-method design was used. Twenty patients in the clinical range at pretreatment were identified as either with reliable deterioration or with no reliable change at termination.