Mastering Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: A Roadmap to the Unconscious
Language: English
Pages: 432
ISBN: 1855758210
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Over two decades, on two continents, Robert J. Neborsky and Josette ten Have-de Labije 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 book, Roadmap to the Unconscious, 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. Roadmap 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 characterologically disturbed patients.
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perc./cogn. Disruption fast rise/long duration yes observing ego Figure 16. Anxious patient 5: road to the unconscious 1. no observing ego + + + A S S E S S M E N T O F A PAT I E N T ’ S A N X I E T Y Pt Th Pt 87 I don’t exclude eh … what … eh … you are saying, but … no, I don’t think that I am really understanding what … I … uh … But I ask you if you are accustomed to paying attention to yourself. Because you tell me that you have to think of your problems. Perhaps the nasty thing is
therapist. We prefer to speak of a patient projecting characteristics of former important persons onto persons in the present when we refer to a static process, as is the case when a person has character resistance and superego pathology, thus when the patient’s observing ego is practically absent, when the patient makes generalization errors, and the discriminative function of his perception is lost, and when his reality testing is low. We prefer to speak of a patient transferring
longings and problems with love, precision, and care. That part in you that knows you are the only person who is the empress of her feelings and longings, and you are the only person who decides what is important to you, isn’t it? A woman who wants to fight for realizing her longings, who sees herself as totally capable of realizing them, a woman who wants to live the coming fifty years as a happy woman, capable of containing painful and happy emotions, or not? Yes. (continues to
always). And, most important: reference to the action tendency of anger—setting limits to the behaviour of the other person in the interaction while wanting to continue the relationship with that person—is lacking! Let us first look at what exactly is missing in the patient’s verbalization: • there is no exact description of the evocative stimulus (what did the other do/say or not do/ say in that particular moment-situation • therefore there is no exact description of causality between the
department of cognitive-behaviour therapy in the Netherlands, we have witnessed severe superego pathology and low to very low ego-adaptive capacity with these patients. Apart from the fact that most of these patients have no access to their feelings, or confuse feelings with defences, and apart from the fact that mostly their anxiety is very unhealthy regulated, they allow their phobia to lead them to a progressively restricted and isolated life. In addition, often their phobic problems
