Key clinical processes in intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy

Psychotherapy (Chic). 2013 Sep;50(3):433-7. doi: 10.1037/a0032166.

Abstract

Davanloo's Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), while derived from traditional psychoanalytic theory, is a modified brief treatment with growing empirical support for its effectiveness with clients with psychoneurotic disorders and character pathology. This model describes key empirically derived processes that can bring ready access to unprocessed unconscious emotions that otherwise perpetuate widespread symptom and behavioral disorders. Herein we describe the metapsychological underpinnings, clinical application, and evidence for central interventions used in ISTDP through the use of a case example.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Anxiety Disorders / diagnosis
  • Anxiety Disorders / psychology
  • Anxiety Disorders / therapy
  • Defense Mechanisms
  • Depressive Disorder, Major / diagnosis
  • Depressive Disorder, Major / psychology
  • Depressive Disorder, Major / therapy
  • Emotions
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Neurotic Disorders / diagnosis
  • Neurotic Disorders / psychology
  • Neurotic Disorders / therapy*
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / diagnosis
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / psychology
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / therapy
  • Personality Disorders / diagnosis
  • Personality Disorders / psychology
  • Personality Disorders / therapy*
  • Professional-Patient Relations
  • Psychotherapeutic Processes*
  • Psychotherapy, Brief / methods*
  • Psychotherapy, Psychodynamic / methods*
  • Somatoform Disorders / diagnosis
  • Somatoform Disorders / psychology
  • Somatoform Disorders / therapy
  • Transference, Psychology
  • Unconscious, Psychology