“…Achieving a better understanding of one's cyclical patterns of thinking, feeling, and relating is regarded as essential in contributing to outcome across therapy modalities, although historically psychodynamic and interpersonal therapies have put more of an emphasis on achieving this understanding through therapist interpretations in comparison to other types of treatment (Blagys & Hilsenroth, ; Høglend, Engelstad, Sørbye, Heyerdahl, & Amlo, ; Kivlighan, Multon, & Patton, ; Vargas, ). Levy, Hilsenroth, and Owen () recently examined the relationship between therapist interpretations early in STPP with improvement in global symptomatology over the course of therapy and found that early use of moderate amounts of interpretation has significant implications for improvement within this type of therapy. There have also been recent findings supporting the relationship between gaining better insight into relational patterns and therapy outcomes.…”