Mastering Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy Roadmap to the Unconscious

This book evolved from the First International Meeting of the Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Association on intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy. It will help readers to make use of the conscious working alliance with the patient to increase the unconscious part of the working alliance.

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.

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