Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) is a unique form of psychodynamic treatment that facilitates the rapid resolution of a broad spectrum of emotional disorders. It is an evidence-based psychotherapy that is strongly supported by current clinical research studies. ISTDP interventions are specifically designed to resolve anxiety, depression, somatization and personality disorders, as well as alleviate a variety of self-defeating behaviors, many of which derive from unstable or troubled early life attachments.  Read more about ISTDP here. 

The mission of the Northern California Society for Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy is to promote the training and practice of ISTDP in Northern California.  The Society hosts trainings, workshops and consultation groups for the advancement of ISTDP.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

TREATING ANXIETY WITH ISTDP: A Neurobiological Approach    Download Brochure

Saturday & Sunday, November 6-7, 2010

"Three expert ISTDP clinicians: Dr. Robert Neborsky, Dr. Josette ten Have-de Labije, & Dr. Patricia Coughlin will each present patients, using videotaped segments of therapy and follow-up, to illustrate the method and its effects."

Time:  8:30am - 5:00pm
Location:  Millberry Union, University of California, San Francisco, 500 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco , CA 94143

Fees and Registration:

Early Fee (before October 5th): $299 

Regular Fee (after October 5th): $349

ISTDP Member Fee: $299 

13 Continuing Education credits will be provided to Psychologists, MFTs and LCSWs for attendance*

Registration and payment is available here.

More information is available at (650) 814-1454 or at DrKevinCampbell@gmail.com.

 

 

Presenters

 

Robert J. Neborsky, M.D. is the President of The Southern California Society for ISTDP, is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCSD School of Medicine and UCLA School of Medicine (Honorary). He has been in private practice in Del Mar, California since 1981. He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is co-author and contributor of several books.

Patricia Coughlin, Ph.D. is a licensed Clinical Psychologist with over 25 years of clinical experience. She sees clients in private practice and conducts training and supervision groups in the U.S. and Denmark. She has held faculty positions at Northwestern University Medical School and Albany Medical College. Currently she is on the faculty at Thomas Jefferson Medical School.

Robert J. Neborsky, M.D.: Over the past decade, our understanding of the science of human emotions has expanded but its application to psychotherapy has lagged behind. The goal of my presentation is to narrow the gap between science and clinical application. I will illustrate how a patient’s dynamic unconscious was examined and repaired under the lens of Attachment Based -ISTDP. I will demonstrate how accessing the unconscious can rapidly free a patient from a chronic need to cripple the self and how the unconscious can be unraveled, through close, moment-to-moment attention to the defenses as they emerge.

Josette ten Have-de Labije, Psy.D.: Establishing a conscious and unconscious working alliance is a necessary requirement for a therapist and patient to take the road to the unconscious. Healing within ISTDP must involve: the uncovering of painful murderous rage, guilt, grief and love; understanding and experiencing these impulses and feelings associated with past traumas; and acknowledging the causal links between interactions in the past and the present. Clinical vignettes will show these steps on the road to the unconscious with a highly anxious woman. 

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This presentation will feature the videotaped initial session with a resistant and fragile patient who was unsuccessful in fourteen previous therapies.  You will learn how to assess and address anxiety in the fragile patient.  You will learn how to deactivate projections that can derail the therapy or lead to misalliance.   The presentation will also illustrate how to mobilize the patient’s will to engage in the therapeutic task in such a way that the transference resistance can be deactivated in session.

The presentation will study the session on a line by line basis so that you will learn how to assess the patient moment by moment and to target your interventions specifically to the issue active in each moment.  Only by accurately understanding the rapidly shifting issues moment by moment can the therapist help him form a therapeutic alliance. The presentation will illustrate how to attune to the fragile patient on a microscopic level in order to offer much better anxiety and affect regulation for the patient.

The conscious therapeutic alliance usually does not exist in these patients at the beginning of therapy.  It must be co-created by the therapist and patient.  The presenter will illustrate the sequence of steps used in ISTDP to develop a conscious therapeutic alliance.  If the therapist tries to explore issues before certain steps of the alliance have been established, the patient will become anxious, begin to project, and a misalliance will result.  As the case will illustrate, careful attention to moment to moment assessment of the alliance can make the difference between failure and success.

Jon Frederickson, MSW is co-chair of the Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) Training Program at the Washington School of Psychiatry in Washington, D.C.  He is also chair of the Core Training Program of the Norwegian Society for ISTDP.  He teaches ISTDP at the Laboratorium in Warsaw, Poland, the EDT Society in Treviso, Italy, the Southern California Society for ISTDP, and also teaches training groups in Denmark and the United States.  He has presented his work at conferences in the United States, Denmark, Norway, Poland, Italy, and at Oxford.  He has published two books and over twenty articles.  He can be heard on a podcast on the internet.

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