Panic-focused psychodynamic psychotherapy in a woman with panic disorder and generalized anxiety disorder.

Panic-focused psychodynamic psychotherapy (PFPP) is a 24-session, twice-weekly (12 weeks), manualized psychoanalytic psychotherapy with demonstrated preliminary efficacy for panic disorder (PD)., Given the substantial morbidity and the health care utilization of the PD population,, coupled with the sizable proportion of such patients who do not respond (or respond inadequately) to alternate treatments (cognitive-behavioral therapy [CBT] and drug therapy),– PFPP may offer clinicians an additional tool for their therapeutic armamentarium. It may also facilitate a rapprochement between academic psychiatry and psychodynamic perspectives, and a reassessment of the role of psychodynamic therapy as part of the educational experience of residents in training—an experience that has diminished over two decades.