ISTDP ACADEMY

The ISTDP Academy is an educational program curated by the Danish, Swedish, and Finnish Societies for ISTDP. Its aim is to inspire and update Scandinavian colleagues on the state of the art in ISTDP, as well as to bring the Scandinavian ISTDP community together.

On this page, you will find updates on upcoming presentations in the ISTDP Academy. Presentations are accessible to all members of the Scandinavian Societies for ISTDP, through your respective Society. Members of the Danish Society for ISTDP attend for free, and receive meeting invitations a few days before each presentation.

Presentations last 2.5 hours and are hosted online via zoom the first week of each month, not including the summer holidays.

Upcoming presentations:

 

Previous presentations:

2026

  • February 4: Marianne Berggren: When there is no hope left – letting go of omnipotence in therapy
  • March 3: Johannes Kieding: The “Intensive” in ISTDP: An Unrelenting Focus on Resistance Across Standard and Graded Formats
  • April 14: Sandro Rosetti: Dr. Davanloo’s metapsychology and technique, part 1
  • April 21: Sandro Rosetti: Dr. Davanloo’s metapsychology and technique, part 2
  • May 7: Deborah Pollack: Existentialism and ISTDP
  • June 9: Sandro Rosetti: Dr. Davanloo’s metapsychology and technique, part 3

2025

  • February 4: John Rathauser: A Case of Depersonalization Disorder
  • March 4: Leo Russell: ISTDP for Functional Neurological Disorders: Theory and Practice
  • April 1: Bernt Langvasbråten: Increased precision in detecting and handling mental mechanisms in Depression – What is the frontier of ISTDP Depression treatment in Norway?
  • May 7: David Davis: A case from my training with Dr. Davanloo
  • June 4: Allen Kalpin: Ketamine-assisted ISTDP
  • September 3: Niclas Ravn Perchet: The Graded Format with a Fragile Patient – Building Capacity and Tracking Signals of UTA
  • October 8: Javad Naficy: The Express Road to the Unconscious using Dr. Davanloo’s Technique
  • November 11: Rudolf Bleuler: Working with Psychosomatic Disorders
  • November 12: Glenn Kristoffersson: Treating a Traumatized Patient with the Graded Format
  • December 10: Lisa Bendzsa: Working with the Regressive Wish

2024

  • February 7: Maury Joseph: Enactment and counter-enactment with a compliant patient
  • March 6: Sandra Ringarp: The art of slowness in ISTDP
  • April 3: Rob Neborsky: The history and evolution of Attachment Based ISTDP
  • May 8: Josette Ten Have-de Labije: The man who was stuck in a pecking order
  • June 12: Monica Urru: Working with a severely somatizing patient: ISTDP and REAC neuromodulation—The clown woman
  • September 3: Michelle May: From the Cognitive to the Soul: A Case of High Resistance to Hope
  • October 2: Jon Frederickson: Systematic Attention to Transference in a Severely Fragile Patient
  • November 6: Kostas Monas: Object Relations Theory and IS-TDP – Working in the Depressive Position
  • December 3: Nat Kuhn: The importance of Action in ISTDP

2023

  • January 9: Johannes Kieding: Leveraging UTA/Connection and Pressure to Awareness of existing Emotional Closeness
  • February 1: Patricia Coughlin: handling resistance without contributing to it
  • March 1: Brian Kok Ravn: The Stuck Electrician – Working with Syntonic Character Defenses
  • March 14: Dion Nowoweiski: Constructing and Reconstructing the Self using ISTDP Techniques and Principles
  • April 5: Jody Clarke: Opening the Family Tomb: A Study of the Intergenerational Transmission of Psychopathology
  • May 3: Tami Chelew: ISTDP Informed Couples Therapy
  • June 7: Niklas Rasmussen: Undervalued functions of the head-on collision in ISTDP
  • September 6: Kristy Lamb: Using ISTDP to Understand and Work with Substance Dependence
  • October 4: Ola Berge: Superego pathology, Object relations and ISTDP – a perspective
  • November 1: Jon Anders Lied: Conscious Collaboration in ISTDP
  • December 6: Jeanne Isaksen: What to do when drowning in regressive defenses?

2022

  • January 12: Joel Town: The Role of Pressure and Challenge to Resistance in ISTDP: Mobilising the Unconscious in the Trial Therapy
  • February 2: Monica Bertinussen: Kintsugi – the art of the golden repair
  • April 6: John Rathauser: Man in the wrong place: A case involving projection and syntonic defense
  • May 4: Monica Urru: Overcoming complex grief and dissociative disorders
  • June 1: Liv Raissi: Undo positioning in therapy – how to replace resistance with heart for both you and the patient
  • September 7: Johannes Kieding: Working with Conscious Defiance and Character Transformation
  • October 5: Beata Zaloga: Working with fragile character structure. Special focus on how to restructure regressive defences with ISTDP technique.
  • November 2: Rudolf Bleuler:The Head-On-Collision
  • December 7: Nithya Kalyani: Superego identifications: exploring some vicissitudes and mechanisms of interventions

2021

  • January 29: Angela Cooper: Treating PTSD with ISTDP
  • March 17: Thomas Hesslow: Anxiety regulation: the importance of pressure
  • April 28: Reiko Joseph: Keeping positive feelings in the bank
  • September 1: Sara Basso: ISTDP principles in childhood psychotherapy
  • October 6: Jonathan Entis: Working with defiance in Davanloo’s ISTDP
  • November 3: Marvin Skorman: You can’t change anyone, even in therapy
  • December 8: Peter Lilliengren: Resolving social anxiety with ISTDP