what is interpersonal psychotherapy
About IPT. Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) is an empirically validated treatment for a variety of psychiatric disorders. The evidence for IPT supports its use for a variety of affective disorders, anxiety disorders, and eating disorders, and for a wide range of patients from children and adolescents to the elderly.he original IPT manual, Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depression [7], was published in 1984 as a manual for this research project. Since that time, IPT has been tested for a variety of affective disorders with different populations of patients.