Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy nach Habib Davanloo

Essentially the seventies – keen on experimenting – have given birth to the audiovisually supported psychoanalytical system of IS-TDP,developed by Habib Davanloo,Montreal. His unusual active and systematic challenge to the patient's resistances voids the absorbing complications of a transferenceneurosis by initiating three psychodynamic changes: intensification and cristallization of the defenses,prominent rise of mixed transference feelings, revival of an unconscious therapeutic coalition.This leads to a highly compressed transference-dynamic that finally discharges into an unresisting breakthrough of deeply repressed feelings: components of primitive rage, tenderness and pain.The patient's intrapsychic process itself replaces the therapist by an important person of the past.Repeatedly working through the emerging guilt is the most determinant factor now and during the whole therapy.The initial-interview already creates valuable connections to the unconscious and designates the further process until the pathogenic core structure is melted.Thus shortness of therapy is a methodical result.