POSTER SUMMARIES FROM THE 2015 POSTER SESSION OF THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION AN EMPIRICAL COMPARISON OF SHORT-TERM PSYCHOdYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY PROCESSES: dISTINCTIvE PROCESS FACTORS BETwEEN SUCCESSFUL ANd UNSUCCESSFUL THERAPEUTIC OUTCOME GROUPS

There has been increasing demand on psychodynamicially oriented therapists to empirically demonstrate the effectiveness of their interventions, and to associate these interventions with successful therapeutic outcome. Studies focused on psychoanalytic process have identified several process-related variables influencing the nature of the treatment and have demonstrated how therapy process changed over time, along with associations between process variables and outcome (Ablon, Levy, and SmithHansen 2011). The good nature of the interaction of the therapeutic dyad, 602878 APAXXX10.1177/0003065115602878Poster SummariesPoster Summaries research-article2015