ISTDP has now 17 published clinical studies supporting its efficacy with personality disorders, somatoform disorders, anxiety, and treatment resistant depression. It has been demonstrated cost effective with benefits persisting in long term follow-up. See http://www.istdp.ca/media.htm#publications for recent research publications.

Some further papers can be found at:

Abbass A (2002) Short-term Dynamic therapies in the treatment of major depression. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry  47: 193

Neborsky R (2006)  Brain, Mind and Dyadic Change Processes  Journal  of Clinical Psychology: in Session Vol. 62(5), 523–538

Direct Diagnosis and Management of Emotional Factors in Chronic Headache Patients.
Allan Abbass MD, FRCPC, David Lovas MD, Allan Purdy, MD, FRCPC
In press: available from: http://psychiatry.medicine.dal.ca/centreforemotions/HeadacheMA.pdf

Technical Papers

Technical and Metapsychological Roots of Davanloo’s ISTDP
Central Dynamic Sequence: Phase of Pressure
Gottwick G, Ostertag I, Weiss M
European Psychotherapy  Vol 2 No 1 2001 pp71-88

Technical and Metapsychological Roots of Davanloo’s ISTDP
Head on Collision with the Resistance 
Gottwick G, Orbes I
European Psychotherapy  Vol 2 No 1 2001  pp103-117

Technical and Metapsychological Roots of Davanloo’s ISTDP
The Entry of the Transference
Gottwick G, Kettner-Werkmeister I, Wagner G
European Psychotherapy  Vol 2 No 1 2001 pp118-136

The perpetrator of the unconscious in Davanloo's new metapsychology.
Part I: review of classic psychoanalytic concepts
Beeber  A  
International Journal of Intensive Short-Term Psychotherapy
Volume 13 Issue 3,  1999 

The perpetrator of the unconscious in Davanloo's new metapsychology. Part II: comparison of the perpetrator to classic psychoanalytic concepts
Beeber A
International Journal of Intensive Short-Term Psychotherapy
Volume 13 Issue 3, 1999

The perpetrator of the unconscious in Davanloo's new metapsychology. Part III Specifics of Davanloo’s Technique
Beeber A
International Journal of Intensive Short-Term Psychotherapy
Volume 13  Issue 3 1999

Resistance and Transference in ISTDP and Classical Psychoanalysis – Similarities and Differences: Pt I
Davis D
International Journal of Intensive Short-Term Psychotherapy
Vol 4 1989 pp 313-331

Resistance and Transference in ISTDP and Classical Psychoanalysis – Similarities and Differences: Pt II
Davis D
International Journal of Intensive Short-Term Psychotherapy
Vol 5 1990 1-24

Paving the Royal Road: An overview of Conceptual and Technical Features in the Graded Format of Davanloo’s ISTDP
Whittemore J 
International Journal of Intensive Short-Term Psychotherapy
Vol 11 1996 pp21-39

The Rise in the Transference in Davanloo’s Technique of ISTDP: Principles, Technique and Issues for Training
Lebeaux D
International Journal of Intensive Short-Term Psychotherapy
Vol 13 1999 pp3-16

Intensive short−term dynamic psychotherapy  Central dynamic sequence: Head−on
collision with resistance.
International Journal of Intensive Short−Term Dynamic Psychotherapy
Davanloo H
Dec 1999, vol. 13, no. 4, p263−282

Intensive short−term dynamic psychotherapy  Central dynamic sequence: Phase of
challenge.
International Journal of Intensive Short−Term Dynamic Psychotherapy
Davanloo−H
Dec 1999, vol. 13, no. 4, p 237−262

Intensive short−term dynamic psychotherapy  Central dynamic sequence: Phase of
pressure
International Journal of Intensive Short−Term Dynamic Psychotherapy
Davanloo H
Dec 1999, vol. 13, no. 4, p211−236

The Significance of Attachment Theory for the Practice of  ISTDP
Della Selva P 
International Journal of Short-Term Psychotherapy
Vol 8 1993 pp189-206

General Short Term research papers

Depression Studies Pertinent to NICE Guidelines: Short-term
Psychodynamic Psychotherapies
Allan Abbass, Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, Dalhousie University, Canada

The Efficacy of Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in Specific Psychiatric Disorders
A meta analysis
Leichsenring F, Rabung S, Leibing E
Archive of General Psychiatry
V16 Dec 2004