| During the 1980’s and 90’s Michael Alpert of the NJ/NY STDP Institute organized Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (STDP) conferences in New York and New Jersey. These provided an opportunity for clinicians who had studied the Intensive STDP (ISTDP) of Habib Davanloo to present their work and engage in stimulating debate and discussion in an atmosphere of openness and collegiality. Each of these clinicians had taken the powerful techniques of ISTDP and adapted them in new and unique ways.
Discussions that began during a workshop in the fall of 1998 continued through e-mail, and expanded to include colleagues in the U.S. and Canada. This group of clinicians decided to open up the discussion to others. An informal e-mail discussion list was begun in spring of 1998. On January 1, 1999 Michael Alpert and Allen Kalpin started the STDP Email Discussion List. Allen and Michael asked six others to become an informal board for the listserv.
In 2000 Ferruccio Osimo asked many of these listserv founders if they were interested in forming an international organization for the purposes of encouraging research and teaching of the STDP’s that had arisen from Davanloo’s work.
This organization was founded and was first named the International Experiential STDP Association (IESA). The founding conference took place in Milan, Italy in May of 2001 and had an excellent attendance of about 300 people. Conferences take place every two years. The second one was in Washington, DC, USA in September of 2003. It was co-sponsored by the Washington School of Psychiatry and also had about 300 attendees. The third international conference was held in September of 2005 and was at the University of California in Los Angeles, USA. The fourth international conference is planned for August 24-August 26, 2007 at Aarhus, Denmark.
Many conferences and workshops take place between times organized by local organizations.
In 2004 it was decided to change the name of the organization to the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association (IEDTA) which reflected the change of the name of the therapy from Experiential STDP (E-STDP) to Experiential Dynamic Therapy (EDT).
The IEDTA has an international membership and promotes the advancement of psychotherapy and encourages the membership of qualified health care practitioners.
Its members have developed research programs at Harvard University (Leigh McCullough, Ph.D.) and Dalhousie University (Abbass), and training programs in New York City (Diana Fosha, Ph.D.), Southern California (Robert J. Neborsky, M.D.), Washington, DC (Jon Frederickson, MSW), Boston (Leigh McCullough, Ph.D.), Hartford (Jeffrey J. Magnavita, Ph.D., ABPP), New Jersey (Michael Alpert, M.D.), Holland, VKDP, Amsterdam (Josette ten Have-de Labije, PsyD), Italy, Milan (Ferruccio Osimo), Denmark (Patricia Coughlin (Della Selva), Ph.D.), and Norway (Leigh McCullough, Ph.D.). It encourages the membership of qualified health care practitioners.
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