Davanloo´s ISTDP and establishing and maintaining the unconscious/conscious working alliance with our patients
The Associació ISTDP de Catalunya organizes in cooperation with
ISTDP International and ISTDP North England a three day workshop on ISTDP
Location: Tarragona, Spain
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December 4 – 6
The workshop is open to Spanish psychotherapists, clinical psychologists, licensed social workers, marital and family therapists, psychiatrists, working in the mental health sector.
What is ISTDP?
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), developed by Habib Davanloo, is a well-researched, evidence-based treatment. Over the past four decades, more than 200 empirical studies—including randomized controlled trials and several meta-analyses—have demonstrated its effectiveness for patients, located on the spectrum of structural neurosis. The effectiveness of this evidence based therapy, together with its time-limited and cost-effective nature, makes ISTDP particularly relevant for mental health professionals in Spain seeking effective and research-supported therapy for their patients in public and private healthcare settings.
Focus of the workshop
The presenters at this 3-day workshop will focus on an introduction of theory and techniques of Davanloo´s ISTDP, and on the different aspects of the process of establishing and maintaining a working alliance with our patients. Theory and practice will be elaborated upon via PowerPoint presentations, via audiovisual vignettes of ISTDP therapies, via discussion and role play.
Davanloo, the creator of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), refers to the variables within the patient that influence the establishment and quality of a working alliance as forces operating against the therapeutic process and those in favour of the therapeutic process. The sadistic superego which demands suffering and the patient´s conscious/unconscious resistance operate against the therapeutic process, while the repressed impulses and feelings (seeking an outlet and expression) and the patient´s conscious willingness to cooperate with the therapist, to face the truth, to drop defenses operate in favour of the therapeutic process.
As most of our patients come to the Initial Interview with high superego pathology, they will defeat any intimate relationship to a certain degree. Thus it is mainly up to the therapist, who is supposed to have the necessary relational and technical skills, to establish a working alliance with his patient. Therefore, the therapist´s skills in at least establishing such an alliance are central. Once such an alliance is established, both patient´s and therapist´s contributions to the alliance are equally responsible for safeguarding and maintaining the working alliance while steadily increasing its quality.
The therapist´s understanding of the concept of the conscious/unconscious working alliance is thus crucial in the therapeutic process, leading to a success or failure of psychotherapy, and in this case of ISTDP.
Spoken language
Spoken language during the workshop will be Spanish. A translator English-Spanish vv will be present.
Presenters at the workshop
Claudia Balica,
Pilar Benet Ollé,
Elzbieta Brodowska,
Josette ten Have-de Labije,
Javier Malda Castillo,
Tatiana Nassar,
Antonio Pique Gelonch.
Time schedule: Day 1 and 2: 10.00 – 18.00 hrs. Day 3: 10.00 – 16.00 hrs
Participation fee: 400 euro
Registration
After having sent an email to pilarbenetolle@gmail.com you will receive a registration form with information about the exact location of the workshop, payment instructions and cancellation policy.
We are looking forward to meeting you in person!
Pilar Benet Ollé, Javier Malda Castillo, Antonio Piqué Gelonch
Some info about the presenters
Clinical Psychologist, ISTDP psychotherapist. Since 2008 working in
private practice in Brussels, Belgium.
She studied at the University of Chicago and the Ecole de Psychologues Praticiens, Paris.
From 2016 – 2019 she participated in an international ISTDP core group training and she
continued participating in an advanced international ISTDP supervision group (supervisor
Josette ten Have – de Labije). She assisted her supervisor in new core group trainings in order
to become an IEDTA accredited teacher/supervisor.
She is registered with the Belgian Commission des Psychologues and she is member of the
IEDTA.
Fluent in English, French, Romanian, German, Spanish.
Clinical Psychologist (1990, Universitat de Barcelona) and psychotherapist
(European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations). She began her professional career in
1991, primarily in private practice at Mèdica de Tarragona, in the city of Tarragona
(Catalonia).
She was trained in Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) by Antonio Piqué,
psychotherapist, and member of the Asociación Española de Intensive Short-Term DynamicPsychotherapy and by Josette ten Have-de Labije, PsyD (Berlin: international ISTDP core
group training and currently member of the international advanced ISTDP group).
She is the president of the Associació ISTDP de Catalunya.
psychologist and psychotherapist; IEDTA accredited ISTDP teacher
and supervisor.
After ending her psychology study at the University of Lublin she completed a postgraduate
course on psychoprophylaxis at the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, a 4 years
psychotherapy training at the Laboratorium Psychoedukacii in Warsaw. Since 2014 she is
working as a ISTDP therapist in private practice.
She participated in ISTDP core group training under supervision of Josette ten Have-de
Labije. Since 2022 she is an IEDTA accredited ISTDP teacher and supervisor. Together with
colleague Renata Komorowska-Pietrzykowska, she leads pre-istdp-core trainings and she
gives supervision at Polish ISTDP core groups and advanced core groups.
She is a Board member of the Polish Association for Psychotherapy Integration and she is the
Chair of the ISTDP section in this Association. She was one of the organizers of a Symposium
on ISTDP in Katowice.
psychologist-psychotherapist and clinical psychologist, started
her professional career in 1972 at the department for Neuro and Psychophysiology of the Free
University of Brussels (Belgium). Thereafter she has worked in the Netherlands at a public
mental health center for ambulant (non-residential) patients as coordinator of the Behavior
Therapy Department and member of the Diagnostic Staff. Since 1990 she is working in
private practice.
She was trained as cognitive-behavior therapist (individual and group setting), Couples
therapist, therapist for psychodynamic individual and group psychotherapy, therapist for
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. From 1989 – 1992 she was member of the
Dutch ISTDP core-group, which was trained and supervised by Professor Dr H. Davanloo.
She has given supervision and post-graduate courses in behavior therapy at the Universities of
Utrecht and Amsterdam and several post-doctorate courses and workshops. She has given
supervision, several post-doctorate courses and workshops on ISTDP in The Netherlands, the
USA, Canada, England, Denmark, Poland, Italy, South Africa, China. She has written books
and several articles on ISTDP.
She has organized several national and international conferences on Behavior Therapy, on
Cancer Treatment and Mental Health, and on ISTDP.
(DClinPsy) is an IEDTA-certified teacher and supervisor in
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), and an accredited Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) supervisor by the Anna Freud Centre. He completed group
psychodynamic therapy training with the institute of group analysis (IGA) and individual
psychodynamic psychotherapy training in the Tavistock.
Over the past decade, he has worked in the NHS delivering, implementing, and researching
ISTDP in secondary care services, and currently works as a Psychotherapy Manager within
the National Health Service (NHS). He has further specialised in ISTDP with Dr Josette ten
Have-de Labije in Germany over the past five years. He has published over 10 papers on the
implementation of psychotherapy within the health service and regularly presents at
workshops, seminars, and conferences. He recently launched a core training in ISTDP in
Manchester, England.
MA, is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist registered in
Lebanon since 2013. She completed the IEDTA-certified International Core Group Training
in Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) in Berlin (2018) and she continued
participating in the international advanced ISTDP core group (Berlin, supervisor Josette ten
Have-de Labije, PsyD) and several international master classes. She works in private practice
as well as in national health institutions (Lebanon, Doha, Qatar) and she provides ISTDP to
adults, adolescents, and children. She has given some psychology courses and presentations
on psychotherapy at the Lebanese University and the University of Balamand and she wrote
some articles. After her BA in 2011, she has worked for governmental and international
humanitarian organizations in Lebanon, Libya, Ukraine, and Nepal.
clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and pedadogue, completed
his studies at the Pontifical University of Salamanca.
He started his professional career as a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist at the
“Hospital Cruz Roja” in Tarragona (1970). Since 1975 he is working in his private practice
and from 1990 till 2010 he also works at the “Mèdica de Tarragona”, medical center.
He participated in the creation of primary education centers (Reus), school guidance centers
(Mora, Tarragona), and centers for children with intellectual and physical disabilities (Mora
de Ebro), as well as secondary education centers (Generalitat of Catalunya). He was also a
professor of Philosophy for pre-university students in Catalonia.
He began his ISTDP training when participating at the first “Audiovisual Symposium &
Workshop on Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapyy” led by Professor Dr. H.
Davanloo (Alicante, Spain, 1983). He received four years of training from Dr. Jesus
Nahamias (psychiatrist) and he attended courses taught by Professor Davanloo in Spain, the
USA, Switzerland, and other countries. He gave/gives supervisions, organized by the
Asociación Española de ISTDP (Alicante) and he gave presentations on ISTDP in several
hospitals, universities and medical settings, throughout Spain. Currently, he is an honorary
supervisor. He published several articles.
Since 1986 he was member of the “Asociación Española de ISTDP” (Alicante) and from
1989, he was functioning in the Board as the Secretary. He was responsible for the creation ofthe “Associació ISTDP de Catalunya”, of which he was the first president. He continues on
the Board of Directors as Secretary.