Book description
Over two decades, on two continents, Josette ten Have-de Labije and
Robert J. Neborsky have struggled to define and perfect the therapeutic
methods of Habib Davanloo. Between the two of them, they run active
training groups in San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, D.
C., London, Amsterdam, Warsaw and Scandinavia. In individual practice,
in teaching situations and in partnered study, they have worked
carefully to translate the theory and application of the revolutionary
clinician's approach. This textbook defines the terms: observing ego,
attentive ego, punitive superego, transference, transference resistance,
unconscious therapeutic alliance, working alliance, unconscious impulse,
in very precise and clinically meaningful ways. David Malan advised that
Davanloo's technique needs to be modified and softened if it is to be
accepted by the majority of therapists Readers will discover that ten
Have-de Labije and Neborsky have surpassed Malan's advice and have taken
the practice of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy to a new
plateau. Mastering Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy translates
Davanloo's intuitive genius into precise language and operations that
students can learn in a systematic and clear way. Thus, applying their
methodology fulfills the promise of short term, effective, and safe
psychotherapy for a broad spectrum of highly resistant psychoneurotic
and characterolgically disturbed patients.
