I have the PDD NOS diagnosis and in my diagnosis paper there isn´t anything in particular that specifies my actual difficulties. Before I got the diagnosis I saw a psychodynamic T and I felt I benefit from that by being more positive, getting a bit more of a self esteem, feeling more hope and such. I saw her only 12 times so there were no practical influences on my life, for example getting out of unemployment. But still, I felt much stronger when I was in that therapy.

Now, about one and a half year later and after getting the diagnosis I see another T, I don´t like her nearly as much as my former T, but my primary concern is that because of the PDD NOS diagnosis I won´t be able to benefit from a psychodynamic therapy, no matter who the T is.

I´ve read a lot that people with an ASD diagnosis won´t benefit from a psychodynamic therapy but at the same time my T has worked (I don´t know how successfully or not though) with several clients with a more "severe" form of ASD and she also knows about my PDD NOS.

I haven´t got any proper answer from my T herself and I feel worried about this. Has anyone here benefit from a psychodynamic therapy? If so, did you make any changes in your "real" life so to speak?