Full Description
The objective of this book is to update dynamic psychotherapists on the latest findings in Davanloo's Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy (IS-TDP). Previous authors have sometimes presented a simplistic, reductionist version of the technique to the public, and the current book is important because it offers the broadest and most up-to-date treatment of the subject, written by a psychiatrist who has attended Davanloo's closed circuit training program for the past eight years. Clear and well-organized prose introduces important technical concepts that had not been previously discussed. The book is divided into three main sections. These include sections on basic theoretical principles of Davanloo's work, application of his new principles and research/future directions. The book begins with an opening chapter on Davanloo's metapsychology of the unconscious. Following this chapter, major mobilisation of the unconscious will be explored in detail. This important concept will be reviewed in the context of Davanloo's closed circuit training program which has unique learning and experiential features. A number of important newer topics are also explored. These concepts will be made less abstract and more tangible as they are illustrated through a case study of an individual who was interviewed in the closed circuit training program. These interviews, in their totality, are not available in any other format. The book ends with a section on future directions for research, neuroimaging, and competency-based education.
Contents
Preface -- Basic Theoretical Principles of Davanloo's Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: An Introduction -- A review of Davanloo's metapsychology of the unconscious -- Davanloo's discoveries: an overview of the Montreal closed circuit training programme -- Davanloo's discoveries, 2005-2015: an overview of important terminology and teachings -- Application of New Theoretical Principles -- The initial evaluative interview: the major mobilisation of the unconscious and the total removal of resistance -- The transference neurosis: Part I -- Transference neurosis: Part II -- Multidimensional unconscious structural changes: Part I -- The neurobiological pathways of murderous rage and guilt -- The transference neurosis: Part III -- The destructive competitive form of the transference neurosis -- The transference neurosis: Part IV -- Unconscious defensive organisation and brainwashing -- Pathological mourning and the mobilised unconscious -- Intergenerational transmission of psychopathology -- The "turning away" syndrome -- Following the trail of the unconscious -- The neurobiological destruction of the uterus -- The character resistance of the idealisation of destructiveness -- Being a mother to one's own mother -- Multidimensional unconscious structural changes: Part II -- The transference neurosis: Part V -- The metapsychology of forgiveness -- The transference neurosis: Part VI -- Future Directions -- Competency-based psychotherapy education and research: an introduction -- Neuroimaging and Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: psychotherapy and the brain
