Open AccessIntensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy: A Treatment Overview and Empirical Basis
Author(s) -
Allan Abbass,
Joel M. Town,
Ellen Driessen
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
research in psychotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2499-7552
pISSN - 2239-8031
DOI - 10.4081/ripppo.2013.84
Subject(s) - psychotherapist , unconscious mind , term (time) , psychology , character (mathematics) , core (optical fiber) , psychoanalysis , computer science , telecommunications , physics , quantum mechanics , geometry , mathematics
Based on over forty years of videotaped case-based research, Habib Davanloo of McGill University, Canada, discovered some of the core ingredients that can enable direct and rapid access to the unconscious in resistant3 patients, patients with func-tional disorders, and patients with fragile character structure. We will describe here some of the main research findings that culminated in his description of a central therapeutic process involved in the intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) model. We will also describe the evolution of the technique over the past thirty years and summarize the empirical base for Davanloo’s ISTDP.