Brevity: rigidity and length of time frame - Treatment focus: the patient in the outside World - Therapist activity: focusing on (or away from) the unconscious - Patient selection: in sickness and in health - Brevity revisited: when less means more.

Habib Davanloo is the founder and pioneer of the method of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy, which is taught and used at centres of psychotherapy and psychiatry worldwide. The method offers theoretical, metaphysical and technical knowledge which can be used with extraordinary precision to mobilize unconscious mental processes in order to achieve therapeutic results. This collection of papers represents the power and recent developments in Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. Written by the leading Practitioner in this discipline - Details the most up-to-date developments

Contributors describe ten different approaches. A final chapter summarizes and compares. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Short-term psychotherapy, although brief, is not ephemeral. In the decade or two of its existence, it has grown into a sturdy tree, and a sign of its maturity is the fact that it is now the subject of an increasing number of overview articles summarizing its literature and findings. Yet it remains a young and vigorous discipline. Its pioneers have not been elevated to a pantheon of venerable but mute immortals; on the contrary, they are to be found at the forefront of the field, actively contributing to the development of its theory and practice. This volume is ample testimony to their continued creativity. Dr. Sifneos has lectured and written extensively about short-term anxiety-provoking psychotherapy (STAPP). Based on psychoanalytic principles, STAPP aims to resolve pathological psychic conflicts and help those suffering from them to learn new ways of being in their most intimate relationships. It does so by actively focusing the patients' sights on their Oedipal problems, and its effectiveness (given a proper selection of subjects by specific criteria) has been amply documented in controlled clinical studies.

This comprehensive reference to Dr. Habib Davanloo's Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) defines all of the important terms in ISTDP, providing an in-depth discussion of almost every aspect of the therapy, including clinical examples. Whether you are just starting out with ISTDP or delving into it more deeply, this book will prove to be an invaluable resource. Jon Frederickson, author of "Co-Creating Change: Effective Dynamic Therapy Techniques" and founder of the ISTDP Institute, calls it "an essential book for any therapist learning how to do ISTDP." Robert Neborsky, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCSD and UCLA Schools of Medicine, writes, "Teachers of ISTDP are going to be well served in using this text as a required reference, and ongoing students-at any stage in their career-will be able to refresh and expand their breadth of knowledge and improve their clinical technique by reading this text. Thank you, Nat, for this invaluable resource!" Stanley Messer, PhD, Dean and Distinguished Professor, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University, says, "In crystal-clear prose, Nat Kuhn presents exceptionally useful definitions and explanations of terms in Davanloo's Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. Illustrated with very helpful clinical vignettes, it belongs in the hands of every novice and experienced ISTDP practitioner." And Thomas Brod, MD, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, hails it as "A masterwork!"

This book provides an introduction to and history of the experiential dynamic therapies (EDT) including the ground-breaking Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) of Habib Davanloo and its subsequent development. It also describes the essential ingredients of EDT.

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.

This new edition reflects the growing use of short term therapy across a variety of settings. Packed with new material on key issues, the book explores the therapeutic relationship, the length of therapy and the evidence base for various forms of therapy. This is key reading for anyone wishing to incorporate a psychodynamic element in their work.