DAVANLOO'S PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUES: Mobilization of the unconscious

By Angela Schmitt

From the late 1950s, the psychoanalyst Habib Davanloo developed a short-term psychotherapy method that he called "Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy", or ISTDP for short. Various ISTDP methods emerged worldwide, with which Davanloo could not identify. As a result, he spoke of " Davanloo's ISTDP " in order to distinguish his teaching from the schools that were spreading internationally. Davanloo has never stopped exploring the unconscious in greater depth and reflecting on the neurobiological background. As part of the Closed Circuit Training Workshops (CCTWs) he initiated in Montreal, Canada, he succeeded in gaining a better understanding of the transgenerational transmission of mental pathology. Working with the participants of the CCTWs, he was able to fully or partially resolve their malignant transgenerational transmission neuroses in order to reach the core neuroses. The elimination of projective anxiety and the removal of the malignant superego resistance, both characteristics of malignant transference neuroses, cannot be achieved in short-term therapies. Only the setting of a block therapy or a CCTW can facilitate lasting unconscious structural changes that allow a damaged psychological defense to strengthen into a competent and autonomous psychological defense.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0D8QLVRCL
• ISBN13: 9798325134487
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 0.4" x 6.1"