Introduction

All clinicians struggle with highly resistant patients. The clinical research at Montreal General hospital on Dr. Habib Davanloo’s techniques revolutionized dynamic psychotherapy. His approach inspired psychotherapists to take an active stance against patient resistance and to form a powerful therapeutic alliance with out-patients in order to help patients overcome their reluctance to face the formidable destructive power of their unconscious guilt.

This conference brings together four world renowned clinicians who have studied with Davanloo and mastered different aspects of his approach. Each clinician will present a difficult case from their own practice who has failed prior treatments and succeeded in overcoming psychiatric symptoms with the help of this method.

The course will focus on newer research from attachment theory about the genesis of psychoneurosis. The audience will be exposed to a short term dynamic approach which promises to alter the unconscious working model of attachment in a timely but long lasting fashion.

Course Objectives

Participants attending this work shop will learn how to:

	Define treatment resistance from a dynamic perspective
	Understand classical resistance versus superego resistance
	Create a working alliance
	Access the unconscious in order to create an Unconscious Therapeutic Alliance
	Identify the core neurotic conflict
	Accelerate working through via moment to moment processing.
	Terminate a successful treatment process.

Methods

	Lecture
	Video demonstration of actual therapies
	Question and Answer
	Panel discussion with junior faculty