Direct Detection and Treatment of Emotional factors in Somatic Presentations
ISTDP for the Psychosomatic Patient
4th Swedish Immersion in Davanloo’s ISTDP with Dr Allan Abbass and Colleagues
We are pleased to announce a 3 day Immersion course in Davanloo’s ISTDP in
Stockholm September 10-12, 2015.
Over one half of all presentations to specialty physicians and one quarter of
emergency department visits are for medically unexplained symptoms costing patients
and governments tons of money. The Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy
framework (www.istdp.ca) has been developed to rapidly assess and treat these somatic
symptoms across the full range of patient personality patterns.
This in depth videotape based Immersion will cover the following areas:
 Overview of Davanloo’s Metapsychology of the Unconscious
 Psychodiagnostic assessment to detect somatic effects of emotions.
 Treatment techniques to access underlying emotions including pressure,
challenge and head on collision with resistance
 The timing of these interventions will be highlighted with a series of videos
 Detailed review of videotape of the primitive unconscious in somatic patients will
be reviewed so you have a deep understanding of the forces maintaining
somatization when you sit with these patients.
The Location will be in Stockhom at Ersta Sköndal Högskola, Campus Ersta,
Stigbergsgatan 30.
The fee is $1000 Canadian. For those in any ISTDP Core training groups, Trainers
and Students the fee is $800 Canadian. The fee includes a reception, nutrition
breaks and a course handout.
Fees must be paid on application to reserve a spot and seating is strictly limited.
This course is open to all health professionals in good standing.
For more information or to register please email Jennifer at
abbass@bellaliant.net or call 1-902-488-7715
Registration Form: 4th Swedish ISTDP Immersion 2015
September 10-12
Location:
Stockholm, Ersta Sköndal Högskola, Campus Ersta, Stigbergsgatan 30
Fee:
$1000 Canadian, $800 Canadian for any ISTDP Core Training
Group Members, Trainers and Full-time Students
Fees are due upon registration to reserve a spot and seating is
limited.
75% refundable until July, 31st 2014
Non-refundable after July, 31st
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SWEDEN IMMERSION 2015”
Dr. Allan Abbass, MD, Inc., account number 702430077011. The account is at
Bank of Nova Scotia - Coburg & Robie, 6005 Coburg Road, Halifax , Nova Scotia,
Canada, B3H 1Y8. The telephone number is 1-902-420-4929. SWIFT code:
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Dr Allan Abbass
Dr. Allan Abbass is currently a Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology and
founding Director of the Centre for Emotions and Health at Dalhousie University
in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
He completed a degree in Medicine at Dalhousie and has worked as both a family
physician and an emergency physician. Frustrated by the limits of traditional
medicine, he began to study with Dr. Davanloo at McGill University in 1990,
where he began training in Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy. 25 years
later, he is a leading teacher and researcher in the area of Short-term
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, having contributed over 150 publications. Many
of these articles can be viewed at www.istdp.ca
He is known for simplifying the theory and technical aspects of the model with
the use of algorithms and through highlighting moment to moment processes
that inform intervention.
For research updates and conference notices see: Twitter: istdp and Facebook:
allan abbass
His first book “Reaching Through Resistance: Advanced Psychotherapy Skills” is
coming out May 1st.