Attachment-Based Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: Harnessing the Profound Healing Power of AB-ISTDP to Rapidly Reach the Unconscious
Summary
This conference will introduce clinicians to Attachment-Based Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (AB-ISTDP): an adaptation of Davanloo’s potent model of psychotherapy used to safely overcome defenses and heal the unconscious origin of neurotic and personality disorders. We will review Freud’s platform of Davanloo’s ISTDP Metapsychology and integrate key discoveries from preeminent Attachment Scholars including John Bowlby, Mary Ainsworth, and Mary Main. We will also highlight the scientific contributions of David Malan to the field of short-term psychotherapy and honor his contributions to our approach to working with Unconscious Process. The course will demonstrate this technique using videotaped psychotherapy sessions which lead to successful access of the unconscious system to repair attachment trauma and alleviate neurotic suffering.
Faculty
Robert J. Neborsky, MD
Dr. Neborsky’s professional activities, in addition to treating patients, include training students in the techniques of his unique Attachment-Based variety of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (AB-ISTDP), which he presents at local, national and international symposia and seminars. He is one of the founders of ISTDP-UK (Bristol) and ISTDP-London and currently serves as a senior consultant to their training programs. Historically, he founded and taught Core Group Trainings in San Diego, Los Angeles (with Dr Davanloo), San Francisco, Calgary, Canada; Aarhus, Denmark; Helsinki, Finland and London, England. He presently serves as a voluntary Clinical Professor UCSD and UCLA (Hon) where he has been celebrated for his unique and vital contribution to their psychiatry residency training programs.
Robin L. Kay, PhD
Dr. Kay maintains a private consulting practice in Los Angeles where she treats patients and teaches psychiatry residents at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine. She has specialized in ISTDP and AB-ISTDP since 1998. She has received UCLA psychiatry faculty awards for her excellence in clinical teaching. Among other symptoms, she treats Anxiety, Mood, Intimacy, Addiction and Performance Problems often fueled by unconscious, unresolved trauma. Buoyed by her training at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, she also offers coaching for executives and leaders.
Alexandra Knowles, BSc (Hons)
Alexandra Knowles began ISTDP training in the 2006 core group in London and is a UKCP registered Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist through the Universities Psychotherapy & Counselling Association (UPCA) and an Honorary Member of FiP which she founded. She has been involved in the training & supervision of therapists and currently devotes her time to her ISTDP practice working with individuals & couples. She is the chair of IS-TDP UK and has overseen the training of 13 core groups following completing her training in 2009
Sharon Lewis, DClinPsych
Dr Lewis is an IEDTA certified supervisor and trainer. She has been a visiting lecturer on clinical doctorate programs in the UK and presented nationally and internationally at workshops and conferences. She provides individual supervision in ISTDP as well as running introductory courses and core training groups and has published in the areas of trauma and ISTDP. The ISTDP London training approach is focused on the attachment-based model of ISTDP established by Robert J. Neborsky, MD.
Betina Søbirk Svane, MsC
Betina Søbirk Svane has an MSc in Psychology and Social Studies and is a certified psychodynamic psychotherapist MPF graduated from the Institute for Gestalt Analyses in Denmark and further core and advanced trained in ISTDP by Robert Neborsky, Patricia Coughlin, Allan Abbass and Joel Town. She has 14 years of experience as a psychotherapist in prisons and private organizations like “Dialogue against Violence”. Since 2018, she has been a full-time practitioner in her own psychotherapeutic clinic in Denmark where she offers individual therapy, teaching/group therapy, and supervision and she is currently training at advanced level to become an IEDTA-certified ISTDP teacher and supervisor.
Event Details
Date: November 11 & 12, 2024
Time: 9 AM - 5:30 PM
Location : San Diego Psychoanalytic Center
4455 Morena Boulevard Suite 202
San Diego, CA 92117
Cost: Conference Alone $450
16 Continuing Education Credits $ 50.00
Lunch for both days $50.00
Space for this event will be limited. For questions and concerns, please contact us (858) 481-6717 or Michele@istdp.com.