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.