Short term psychodynamic therapy focuses on troubling feelings or thoughts that interfere with relationships communication and or functioning at school or at work the aim of therapy is to uncover the sources of the feelings or thoughts that are often hidden from the client. Summary short term psychotherapy is used by all physicians and surgeons since 80 per cent of all human ills have obvious emoaeuro tional components the patientaeurtms faith in his practitioner may greatly determine the ultimate outcome of the illness cold sciaeuro entific reasoning may help the patient but positive suggestion based on scientific fact is more effective conscious . Of course short term psychotherapy has many limitations in that the degree of change is often more limited than in well done longer term work yet it has been the experience of work with a significant number of clients that significant change can take place in a short period of time and that this can be satisfying for the client