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Journal of Contemporary ISTDP The Journal of Contemporary ISTDP. By and for the ISTDP community.

Unexpected success today selling journals at the flea market in Malmö. Lots of young psychologists getting a copy of the...
06/09/2025

Unexpected success today selling journals at the flea market in Malmö. Lots of young psychologists getting a copy of the third issue.

Michelle M. May has a wonderful article in the new issue on the theme of creating a very powerful conscious alliance. Ch...
25/07/2025

Michelle M. May has a wonderful article in the new issue on the theme of creating a very powerful conscious alliance. Check out her page here on Facebook to listen to her saying a few things about the article.

24/07/2025

ISTDP is slowly but surely making its way across the globe. For the third issue, we sat down with Igor Kundrát, the president of the newly formed Slovak society for ISTDP.

"Thanks to ISTDP, I started finding answers to questions that used to feel like insurmountable obstacles. What once felt like dead ends in the therapeutic relationship began to feel more like a clear process—a challenge where solutions could actually be found."

Read the interview and much more in the third issue! https://www.istdpjournal.com/buy-subscribe/

Slowly, but surely, ISTDP is growing across the planet. In the third issue of the JCI, we get to meet Igor Kundrát, the ...
24/07/2025

Slowly, but surely, ISTDP is growing across the planet. In the third issue of the JCI, we get to meet Igor Kundrát, the president of the newly formed Slovak society for ISTDP.

"Thanks to ISTDP, I started finding answers to questions that used to feel like insurmountable obstacles. What once felt like dead ends in the therapeutic relationship began to feel more like a clear process—a challenge where solutions could actually be found."

You can read the full interview and more in the print version of JCI issue #3! Subscribe here: https://www.istdpjournal.com/buy-subscribe/

Will psychodynamic therapy survive in the long run? Maybe, maybe not. Some years ago, Winfried Rief and colleagues publi...
23/07/2025

Will psychodynamic therapy survive in the long run? Maybe, maybe not. Some years ago, Winfried Rief and colleagues published a paper on current trends in psychotherapy research, finding that psychodynamic therapy over time was decreasing in proportion to the overall field. "Third wave treatments such as mindfulness increased their representation in research, while the part of psychodynamic treatments decreased."

In this interview with Ellen Driessen, published in the third issue of the Journal of Contemporary ISTDP, Ellen discusses the need for dynamic clinicians to do more empirical research in order to keep psychodynamic therapy alive. In the past, Ellen has done some very important empirical research showing the efficacy of dynamic therapy in the treatment of depression, including a landmark non-inferiority RCT study in the Netherlands. In the interview, Ellen specifically notes that dynamic therapy might be more effective than other treatments for depression with a duration longer than one year. Maybe this is a path where psychodynamic therapy can find a future? The interview with Ellen is filled with signs that psychodynamic therapy research is alive and kicking. Will psychodynamic therapy survive in the long run? Of course it will.

"In the end, what you’re trying to do is improve the treatment for the 300 million people worldwide who suffer from depression. Of course this is a long term aim, but in the end, that is what you’re trying to help accomplish, right?"

You can read about this and more in the print version of the third issue! Subscribe here: https://www.istdpjournal.com/buy-subscribe/

(Rief, W., Kopp, M., Awarzamani, R., & Weise, C. (2022). Selected trends in psychotherapy research: An index analysis of RCTs. Clinical Psychology in Europe, 4(2), e7921.)

In the third, freshly published, issue of the journal, Rudolf Bleuler and Jakob Brixen do a deep dive into the head-on c...
23/07/2025

In the third, freshly published, issue of the journal, Rudolf Bleuler and Jakob Brixen do a deep dive into the head-on collision. "The most effective antidote to the resistance". Bleuler has been one of the key figures within ISTDP in Switzerland, being the president of the Swiss society for ISTDP for many years and training with Davanloo across several decades.

In the article, Bleuler and Brixen illustrate core principles of the head-on collision using transcripts that bring the reader very close to the actual emotional experience of the intervention.

"In the course of therapy, especially when using a high-intensity intervention like HOC, it can be easy to fall into repetitive language or stereotypes. For instance, a therapist might default to the same phrases, such as "We are here to get to the core of your problems," during every HOC. While this might seem like a neutral or helpful reminder, overuse of the same language can lead to desensitization in the patient. The patient may start to tune out these familiar phrases, resulting in a failure to trigger the desired emotional response or increase in complex transference feelings. Then the patient leans back and says to himself: "I have already heard that many times!""

The third issue just arrived from the printer! We will start sending it out tomorrow.
10/07/2025

The third issue just arrived from the printer! We will start sending it out tomorrow.

ISSUE #3 is on its way — a 176-page monster packed to the brim!
12/06/2025

ISSUE #3 is on its way — a 176-page monster packed to the brim!

11/06/2025

ISSUE #3 HAS JUST BEEN SENT TO PRINT
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The Journal of Contemporary ISTDP (JCI) is an open access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy, an emotion-focused psychoanalytic psychotherapy developed by Habib Davanloo. The journal is a hybrid-content journal mixing academic and non-academic content, spanning all the way from rigorous empirical studies to case studies to short personal reflections and arts.

We've got something in the oven for you...
15/05/2025

We've got something in the oven for you...

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