Main description:

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.

Contents:

Preface -- Davanloo's ISTDP, psychoneurosis, and the importance of attachment trauma -- The neurobiological regulation of emotion and anxiety -- Emotion regulation and the role of defences -- Assessment of a patient's anxiety -- Resistance, transference, ego-adaptive capacity, and multifoci core neurotic structure -- Observational learning and teaching our patients to overcome their problems -- The road to the patient's unconscious and the working alliance -- The independent variables -- An initial interview with a transport-phobic patient -- Steps on the roadmap to the unconscious and its application to patients suffering from depressive disorders -- Steps on the roadmap to the unconscious and its application to patients with somatization -- Steps on the roadmap to the unconscious in a patient with transference resistance -- Exiting the roadmap to the unconscious in the phase of termination -- Assessment forms -- Glossary