Mastering Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: A Roadmap to the Unconscious

Over two decades, on two continents, Josette ten Have-de Labije and Robert J. Neborsky 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 textbook 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 ten Have-de Labije and Neborsky have surpassed Malan's advice and have taken the practice of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy to a new plateau. Mastering Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy translates 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:
Chapter 1 - Davanloo's ISTDP, psychoneurosis, and the importance of attachment trauma Chapter 2 - The neurobiological regulation of emotion and anxiety Chapter 3 - Emotion regulation and the role of defences Chapter 4 - Assessment of a patient's anxiety Chapter 5 - Resistance, transference, ego-adaptive capacity and multifoci core neurotic structure Chapter 6 - Observational learning and teaching our patients to overcome their problems Chapter 7 - The road to the patient's unconscious and the working alliance Chapter 8 - The independent variables: ISTDP techniques to change red traffic lights into green Chapter 9 - An intial interview with a transport-phobic patient Chapter 10 - Steps on the roadmap to the unconscious and its application to patients suffering from depressive disorders Chapter 11 - Steps on the road to the unconscious and its application to patients with somatization Chapter 12 - Steps on the road to the unconscious in a patient with transference resistance Chapter 13 - Exiting the roadmap to the unconscious in the phase of termination.

About the Author :
osette ten Have-de Labije, PsyD, registered psychologist-psychotherapist and clinical psychologist, started her professional career in 1972 at the department for Neuro- and Psychophysiology of the Free University of Brussels. Thereafter she has worked in the Netherlands at a public mental health center for ambulant (non-residential) patients as coordinator of the Behavior Therapy Department and member of the Diagnostic Staff. Since 1990 ten Have-de Labije, who is Dutch by birth, has worked in private practice. As supervisor and trainer of the Dutch Association for Cognitive and Behavior therapy, she has supervised and and taught post-graduate courses in behavior therapy at the Universities of Utrecht and Amsterdam and several post-doctorate courses and workshops. As supervisor and trainer of the Dutch Association for Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy and of the South California Institute for AG-STDP she has led several post-doctorate courses and workshops. She has organized several national and international conferences on Behavior Therapy, cancer treatment and mental health, and ISTDP. Robert J. Neborsky, M.D., is a psychiatrist in private practice in Del Mar, California, and a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCSD School of Medicine as well as UCLA School of Medicine (Hon). He is member of the Board of Directors of the International Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Association. He was a founding member on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. He is currently guest editor of the Ad Hoc Bulletin of Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. In 1981, while training with Dr. Habib Davanloo, he co-founded the San Diego Institute for Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. He co-authored Short-Term Therapy for Long Term Change (Norton, 2001) and is a contributing author in Healing Trauma (Norton, 2003). In 2003, Dr. Neborsky was honored by the UCLA School of Medicine Clinical Faculty Association as the Distinguished Psychiatric Lecturer of the Year for 2002. In 2003 he was one of the founders of the Southern California Society for ISTDP and was elected president. In 2008 he was appointed Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Neborsky's professional activities include treating patients, training students in the techniques of Attachment-Based variety of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), presenting at local, national and international symposia, and completing a textbook book on AB-ISTDP with Josette ten Have-de Labije, PsyD. He is actively researching the interface between attachment theory and psychotherapy.

Review :
'This is the best description and guide to intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy. It is practical, detailed, easy to follow, and a fantastic resource to any training programme for this treatment modality.' - Professor Peter Fonagy, PhD, FBA, Head of Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology and Chief Executive of the Anna Freud Centre, London.