Mastering Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy

by Ten Have-de Labije, Josette; Neborsky, Robert J.

• ISBN13: 9781855758216
• ISBN10: 1855758210
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-03-30
• Publisher: Karnac Books

Summary

Over two decades, on two continents, Robert J. Neborsky and Josette ten Have-de Labije have struggled to define and perfect the therapeutic methods of Habib Davanloo. Between the two of them, they run active training groups in San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., London, Amsterdam, Warsaw and Scandinavia. In individual practice, in teaching situations and in partnered study, they have worked carefully to translate the theory and application of the revolutionary clinician's approach. This book, Roadmap to the Unconscious, defines the terms, observing ego, attentive ego, punitive superego, transference, transference resistance, unconscious therapeutic alliance, working alliance, unconscious impulse, in very precise and clinically meaningful ways. David Malan advised, that Davanloo's technique needs to be modified and softened if it is to be accepted by the majority of therapists Readers will discover that Neborsky and ten Have-de Labije have surpassed Malan's advice and have taken the practice of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy to a new plateau. Roadmaptranslates Davanloo's intuitive genius into precise language and operations that students can learn in a systematic and clear way. Thus, applying their methodology fulfills the promise of short term, effective, and safe psychotherapy for a broad spectrum of highly resistant psychoneurotic and characterolgically disturbed patients.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
List of Tables	p. xi
About the Authors	p. xii
Preface	p. xiii
Davanloo's ISTDP, psychoneurosis, and the importance of attachment trauma	p. 1
The neurobiological regulation of emotion and anxiety	p. 13
Emotion regulation and the role of defences	p. 21
Assessment of a patient's anxiety	p. 47
Resistance, transference, ego-adaptive capacity, and multifoci core neurotic structure	p. 93
Observational learning and teaching our patients to overcome their problems	p. 109
The road to the patient's unconscious and the working alliance	p. 117
The independent variables: ISTDP techniques to change red traffic lights into green	p. 149
An initial interview with a transport-phobic patient	p. 175
Steps on the roadmap to the unconscious and its application to patients suffering from depressive disorders	p. 199
Steps on the roadmap to the unconscious and its application to patients with somatization	p. 265
Steps on the roadmap to the unconscious in a patient with transference resistance	p. 309
Exiting the roadmap to the unconscious in the phase of termination	p. 355
Appendix Assessment forms	p. 387
Glossary	p. 395
References	p. 402
Index	p. 409
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