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Don't miss this rare opportunity to see master ISTDP psychologist, Patricia Coughlin, Ph.D in person. She will be presenting a wide variety of case material about guilt and its role […]
ISTDP is a systematic revision of psychoanalytic technique allowing practitioners to use emotional and attachment links to unlock a very wide range of psychopathology. Outcome studies of high quality have demonstrated the effectiveness of ISTDP in Personality Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Mood Disorders including Bipolar Disorder and Treatment-resistant Depression, Medically Unexplained and Somatoform Disorders, Eating Disorders, […]
Have you ever encountered cases like these - a man who can’t get an erection with attractive, age appropriate women and can only have sex with “old, ugly women”; a woman who only pursues married and unavailable men; and another who is overcome with guilt and must punish herself for experiencing sexual pleasure? Why would one man go into a spiral of depression after “beating” his competition and winning the top prize in his field, while another assumes a passive, subservient position with men in authority, taking a one-down, loser position? In cases like these, where themes of competition, “winning”, “beating rivals” and possessing a valued other (aka “the prize”) are prominent, unresolved Oedipal conflicts could […]
