Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is a widespread debilitating and costly disorder for both the patient and the society. The high comorbidity rate of SAD with other psychological disorders as well as its impact upon increasing the burden of the disorder, call for more efficient approaches for its treatment. Evaluating the effectiveness of a new psychotherapeutic model for the treatment of SAD, shortly named PTC (Paradox + Timetable = Cure), is introduced in this article. Three patients with SAD participated in a video recorded PTC therapy program. The results and the empirical evidence obtained from the treatment of the patients revealed a very positive complete outcome after three sessions for the first two patients and four sessions for the last one. The result of 24 to 36 months follow-up showed that the therapeutic changes were satisfactory, stable and permanent, during which no relapse was happened. Mechanisms of "paradoxical timetable", as the main PTC technique, and its adjustment to the treatment outcomes of the three patients are explained. It is concluded that the PTC psychotherapeutic model can be considered as a very shortterm, effective, efficient and yet economical approach for the treatment of SAD.
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