The Seasoned Clinician’s Notebook
The educational series, “The Seasoned Clinician’s Notebook: How Psychoanalytic Concepts Inform the Practice of Psychotherapy,” features clinicians from a range of disciplines who share how they use concepts from psychoanalysis to enrich their clinical work, from cultivating creativity to working with addictions.
These PCC sessions take place on Zoom. They are free of charge, but reservations are required.
CEUs will not be offered for The Seasoned Clinician’s Notebook, but Letters of Attendance will be sent upon completion of a program evaluation survey.
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Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP): A Brief History and Modern Day Application
Presented by Tyler Beach, MSW, LCSW
September 28, 2024
10 am to 12 pm ET
via Zoom
In this lecture, Tyler Beach will provide a history of Intensive Short Term Dynamic Therapy (ISTDP), with an emphasis on its psychoanalytic underpinnings and its contemporary application. ISTDP’s data on therapeutic outcomes, an important contribution to the field of psychoanalysis, will be briefly reviewed. Tyler will then discuss how he personally uses both theory and technique to help patients separate and let go of the defenses that contribute to their presenting problems. He will discuss the focal role of defense work (analysis and challenge) as a method to bring unconscious conflicts to the surface to be resolved. In this part of the lecture, Tyler will contrast ISTDP with more interpretative or relational models of psychodynamic treatment. This contrast will be in the spirit of clarifying the model rather than making a valued comparison of other models.
Tyler Beach, MSW, LCSW, is an individual and group psychotherapist in private practice in Durham, NC. In the past 15 years, he has received specialized training in working with patients generally deemed “treatment resistant.” In addition to his clinical practice, he provides clinical supervision and consultation to other therapists on challenging clinical situations. Also, as part of his consulting practice, he has provided numerous local and national workshops to help therapists intervene more efficiently with difficult and complex clinical situations. He has served on the Ethics Committee of the American Academy of Psychotherapists and is currently serving as Secretary. Recently, he has completed training with several nationally recognized experts in Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy, including Allan Abbass, MD, and Joel Town, PhD. Drs Abbass and Town are the foremost researchers in the evidence base for this treatment. Tyler has also received over a decade of supervision in the ISTDP model and participated in an Advanced Core Training. He finds this treatment modality particularly useful in addressing challenging patient situations.
