Specificity of technical interventions in Davanloo's intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy: part I

Abstract

This is the first of a three-part article focusing on the specificity of technical interventions in Davanloo's IS-TDP. Here the author will briefly summarize some of the important aspects of Davanloo's technique and his scientific method of the exploration of the unconscious. The first thirty minutes of a trial therapy interview conducted in a live, closed-circuit supervisory program will be analysed in depth to highlight the important technical and metapsychological issues necessary for properly conducting the first part of the trial therapy. Copyright © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.