Dr Allan Abbass is currently Associate Professor, Director of Psychiatric Education and Director of the Centre for Emotions and Health at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. A member of the committee that established Canadian Psychotherapy guidelines, Dr Abbass has been section chair and secretary of the Psychotherapy section of the Canadian Psychiatric Association since 1999. In 2001, he has been awarded the Canadian Psychiatric Association Chairs of Psychiatry Award for Education for developing a training program in ISTDP. In 2002 he was named teacher of the year by the resident body at Dalhousie Psychiatry and in 2005 he was awarded Dalhousie Medicine’s Putnam Award for Excellence in Continuing Education. He is pleased to be a board member of the IEDTA as of 2005.
He completed medical training at Dalhousie University and Family Medicine at McGill University in Montreal. At McGill, in 1990, he was privileged to begin training in Davanloo’s method of ISTDP, training which he has continued up to 2004. Based on this exposure, he went on to do a psychiatry residency at University of Toronto with the goal of making his own contribution to research and teaching in ISTDP. From there he went to Vancouver to establish an ISTDP training program at University of British Columbia and to be the founding director of a provincial program for the treatment of patients with severe personality disorders.
He currently practices, teaches and researches in the area of ISTDP. He provides ISTDP training programs, semester courses, fellowships and workshops to local audiences and beyond. His current education focus is on implementing curriculum on emotions and somatization to all medical students and residents at the Dalhousie University medical school. He is the principle investigator of original research in ISTDP including naturalistic studies, case series, comparative studies, a randomized controlled trial of ISTDP in patients with DSM IV personality disorders and a Cochrane Systematic Review of STDP outcome research. He is also very interested in studying and highlighting common therapy factors which work across diverse treatment models.
Dr. Patricia Coughlin (Della Selva) is a Clinical Psychologist with over 25 years of experience - the last 15 of which have been focused on the practice, research and training in Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. She studied with the founder of ISTPD, Dr. Habib Davanloo, in the early 90s and has written two books on the subject, as well as numerous journal articles. Her private practice is located in Albany, New York and she teaches and trains mental health professionals around the world. Currently, she is teaching in Washington, DC; California; London, England; and Denmark. Further information can be obtained by visiting her web site at www.patriciacoughlin.com.
Josette ten Have-de Labije is a registered psychologist-psychotherapist and clinical psychologist. She started her professional career in 1972 at the department for Neuro and Psychophysiology of the Free University of Brussels (Belgium). From 1989 - 1992 she was a member of the Dutch ISTDP group, which was trained and supervised by Professor Dr H. Davanloo.
As one of the founders of the Dutch Association for Short term Dynamic Psychotherapy (VKDP), she has been on the Board until October 2004. She is the coordinator of the VKDP’s educational program. She has given professional presentations at the International Congress on STDP in Milan (2001), in Amsterdam (2002), in Washington (2003), Los Angeles (2005), and Grand Rounds, UC San Diego (2005) and LLI conferences at UC Los Angeles (2003, 2005)
She edited the VKDP Summer school Proceedings 2001 : The working Alliance in ISTDP : Whose Intrapsychic Crisis ? and the Conference Proceedings 2002 : Natura Artis Magistra, (Un)conscious animals as Teachers of STDP. She is one of the editors of the Ad Hoc Bulletin of STDP : Practice and Theory and she wrote several articles.
Dr. Allen Kalpin is a medical doctor practicing and providing psychotherapy supervision in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. After being in general medical practice for many years he had six years of training and supervision in ISTDP with Habib Davanloo, MD. In addition to his psychotherapy work, he also practices addiction medicine in Toronto.
He is past president of the General Practice Psychotherapy Association (GPPA) of Canada, a founder and board member of IEDTA, founder and moderator of the STDP Email Discussion List , and creator and manager of this website.
Dr. Kalpin does EDT teaching and supervision internationally and has published many articles on EDT. He is currently developing an EDT approach called Mindfulness-Informed Experiential Dynamic Therapy (MI-EDT). He is the current president of IEDTA.
Dr. Magnavita is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, a Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology, and is the Founder of the Connecticut Center for Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. He is an Affiliate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Hartford and Director of Glastonbury Psychological Associates, P.C. He is both a licensed psychologist and marriage and family therapist, who specializes in treating individuals and couples with personality dysfunction. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Psychology/In Session and has been the guest editor for two special editions. He authored Restructuring Personality Disorders: A Short-Term Dynamic Approach; Relational Therapy for Personality Disorders, and a text: Theories of Personality: Contemporary Approaches to the Science of Personality and was the volume editor of the Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy: Psychodynamic/Object Relations: Volume 1 and Handbook of Personality Disorders: Theory and Practice. His most recent theoretical and clinical work is presented in the volume Personality-Guided Relational Psychotherapy: A Unified Approach. In this volume a unified systemically informed model that orients the clinician to the patient system using four embedded triangular matrices is presented. Dr. Magnavita is one of the founders of IEDTA and is the Editorial Coordinator.
Training facilities
Individual and small group supervision—Connecticut Center for STDP
Advanced Seminar in STDP—University of Hartford
Books
Restructuring Personality Disorders: A Short-Term Dynamic Approach (1997). Guilford Press: This volume presents a model of STDP based on the work of many of the pioneering figures, beginning with Ferenczi, for working with those patients who have personality disorders. Various methods of restructuring are presented based on the work of Davanloo and incorporating elements of self-psychology and ego psychology.
Relational Therapy for Personality Disorders (2000). John Wiley & Sons: This volume expands the domain of STDP by including dyadic and triadic processes that occur in relational systems. A relational schema is presenting for diagnosing family systems that engender personality dysfunction.
Handbook of Personality Disorders: Theory and Practice (2004). John Wiley & Sons: This volume presents leading theorists and clinicians who discuss current treatment models and theoretical developments in the treatment of personality disorders. There are useful chapters on the application of STDP to this population and others by leading psychodynamic psychotherapists.
Robert J. Neborsky, M.D., is a psychiatrist in private practice in Del Mar, California, and a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCSD School of Medicine as well as UCLA School of Medicine (Hon). He is the Medical Director of Lifespan Learning Institute, a non-profit organization specializing in continuing education seminars for mental health professionals, and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Association. He was a founding member on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. He is currently guest editor of the Ad Hoc Bulletin of Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. In 2003, Dr. Neborsky was honored by the UCLA School of Medicine clinical faculty association as the Distinguished Psychiatric Lecturer of the year for 2002 .In 2003, he was one of the founders of the Southern California Society for IS-TDP and was elected by the membership to a two-year term as president of the society.
Dr. Neborsky attended the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where he won the Jacob Finesinger Award in Psychiatry. He served his residency at Emory University School of Medicine where he earned the Hope Skobba Memorial Award. He served in the United States Navy as Director of In-Patient Psychiatry at Balboa Naval Hospital. From there he joined the full-time faculty of UCSD School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in charge of emergency services and the medical student clerkship. He briefly served as the Director for all undergraduate education in psychiatry. Along with David Janowsky as co-author, he published significant research on the treatment of acute psychosis with high-dose/low-dose haloperidol, and wrote articles on the combined use of pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy in the treatment of depression. In 1981, while training with Dr. Habib Davanloo, he co-founded the San Diego Institute for Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. In 2001, he co-authored Short-Term Therapy for Long Term Change (Norton) and is a contributing author in the 2003 book, Healing Trauma (Norton).
Dr. Neborsky’s professional activities include training students in the techniques of his unique Attachment-Based variety of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (IS-TDP), presenting at local, national and international symposia, and is also writing his next book. He is actively researching the interface between attachment theory and psychotherapy. He is married and the father of four daughters, and is an enthusiastic golfer.
Dr. Osimo is one of the founders of IEDTA and was its first President. He is Adjunct Professor at Università Statale di Milano, Member of OPIFER (Italian Psychoanalytic Organization), and Fellow of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry. He trained in dynamic psychotherapy at Tavistock Clinic, London , where he carried out in-depth clinical studies on the quality of outcome, co-authoring with David H.Malan the book, Psychodynamics, Training, and Outcome in Brief Psychotherapy, Butterworth-Heinemann (1992). After attending Habib Davanloo's Core Training (1989-1992) Dr. Osimo took part in the STDP Research Program directed by L. McCullough at Harvard Medical School (1997). The model he developed of Intensive Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy is described in Brief Psychodynamic Therapy (2002), a chapter from: Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy, and in the book Experiential Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: A Manual (2003) Bloomington , In.: Authorhouse. Dr. Osimo founded the Italian Core Training in IE-DP (2001) and the English Core Training in IE-DP (2006). His clinical work was presented in Europe, North and South America.
Marion F. Solomon is senior faculty at UCLA, Department of Humanities, Sciences and Social Sciences, Extension Division, and Professor at the American Behavioral Studies Institute in Beverly Hills. She is Co-Founder of the Lifespan Learning Institute, dedicated to advanced training and application of research in individual, group and family therapy. Dr. Solomon is an associate. American Psychoanalytic Association, a Research analyst, American Academy of Psychoanalysis, a fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association and a member of the Division of Psychoanalysis, American Psychological Association.
Her books include, “Narcissism and Intimacy: Love and Marriage in an Age of Confusion,” (WW Norton), “Lean on Me: The Power of Positive Dependency in Intimate Relationships,” (Simon and Schuster), Co-Author of “Short Term Therapy For Long Term Change,” (WW Norton), Co-Editor with James Grotstein of “The Borderline Patient,” (The Analytic Press); “Countertransference in Couples Therapy,” (WW Norton) and. Co-editor with Daniel Siegel of “Healing Trauma,” (WW Norton).
The books "Narcissism and Intimacy" and "Lean On Me" predated her immersion into short term dynamic psychotherapy. They were very focused on attachment, attunement, and the trauma of failed relationships. "Narcissism and Intimacy" focuses on connection to emotions, and narcissistic defenses against closeness. "Lean On Me" was a challenge to the co-dependency movement, and focuses on the importance of interdependence in a culture that values independence.
"Short Term Therapy For Long Term Change," was an outgrowth of several conferences with Rob Neborsky, David Malan, Leigh McCullough, etc. Her chapters in that book and the "Healing Trauma" book could be called "Emotionally Centered Couple's Therapy," but she has not formally named her therapeutic approach.
Marion has played a major role in organizing EDT conferences in southern California through her Lifespan Institute. She can be contacted at:
Jon Frederickson, MSW, is a therapist with over 25 years of experience, the last nine of which have been focused on the practice and training of Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. He studied with the founder of ISTDP, Dr. Habib Davanloo, for two years and was in weekly supervision with Patricia Coughlin, Ph.D. for seven years. He is the co-chair of the Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) training program at the Washington School of Psychiatry. Mr. Frederickson has also been the co-chair of the Advanced Psychotherapy Training Program and the Supervision Training Program at the Washington School of Psychiatry. Currently he is chair of the ISTDP Core Training Program of the Norwegian ISTDP Society, and he teaches ISTDP at the Laboratorium in Warsaw, Poland, for supervision groups in Denmark, the EDT Society in Treviso, Italy and at the Southern California Society for IS-TDP. He has given videotape presentations at conferences in the United States, Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Poland, and Italy.
He practices, teaches, and supervises in the area of ISTDP. He provides ISTDP training workshops, supervision groups, and conferences in the U.S. and Europe. He is the author of a book on psychodynamic psychotherapy: /Psychodynamic Psychotherapy---Learning to Listen from Multiple Perspectives/. And he has published over twenty papers, several of which are in the Ad Hoc Bulletin of Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. He serves as the treasurer for IEDTA.
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