1/ I get asked this all the time so thought I'd put it in a tweet for whoever needs it. In 2010, I published "The efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy," which put psychoanalytic/psychodynamic therapy on the map as an evidence-based therapy. It reviewed the major meta-analyses

2/ available at the time. Here are the citations for that paper and for the major reviews and meta-analyses of psychodynamic therapy published since.

Shedler, J. (2010). The efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy. American Psychologist, 65, 98-109.

3/ Abbass AA, Kisely SR, Town JM, Leichsenring F, Driessen E, De Maat S, Gerber A, Dekker J, Rabung S, Rusalovska S, Crowe E. Short‐term psychodynamic psychotherapies for common mental disorders. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2014, Issue 7. Art. No.: CD004687

4/ Abbass A, Town J, Holmes H, Luyten P, Cooper A, Russell L, et al. Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Functional Somatic Disorders: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Psychother Psychosom. 2020;89(6):363-370. doi: 10.1159/000507738

5/ Driessen, E, P. Cuijpers, S. C. deMaat, et al. (2010). The efficacy of short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy for depression: A meta-analysis. Clinical Psychology Review, 30(1), 25–36. doi: 10.1016/j.cpr.2009.08.010.

6/ Keefe JR, McCarthy KS, Dinger U, Zilcha-Mano S, Barber JP. A meta-analytic review of psychodynamic therapies for anxiety disorders. Clin Psychol Rev. 2014 Jun;34(4):309-23. doi: 10.1016/j.cpr.2014.03.004. Epub 2014 Mar 24. PMID: 24786897.

7/ Leichsenring F, Luyten P, Hilsenroth MJ, Abbass A, Barber JP, Keefe JR, Leweke F, Rabung S, Steinert C. Psychodynamic therapy meets evidence-based medicine: a systematic review using updated criteria. Lancet Psychiatry. 2015 Jul;2(7):648-60. doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(15)00155-8.

8/ Bottom line: All available scientific evidence indicates psychodynamic therapy is evidence-based therapy.

Those who think term "evidence-based" excludes psychodynamic therapies are not speaking from scientific knowledge. They are speaking propaganda & ideology.

9/ Also, a colleague maintains and updates a database / online bibliography of published RCTs evaluating psychodynamic therapy. Approx. 275 RCTs published to date. Here'e the link. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317335876_Comprehensive_compilation_of_randomized_controlled_trials_RCTs_involving_psychodynamic_treatments_and_interventions

10/ Not once has a legitimate research study compared so-called evidence-based therapy (i.e., manualized CBT) to psychodynamic therapy on a level playing field and found greater efficacy for CBT. Not once.

Does anyone else want to discuss what "evidence" shows? Didn't think so.