Therapist immediacy in brief psychotherapy: Case study I.

Therapist immediacy in brief psychotherapy: Case study II.

Immediacy was examined in a 17-session case of brief therapy with a bright, articulate, inner-city, African American female client seeing an interpersonally oriented, White, male therapist. The main types of therapist immediacy were reinforcing the client for in-session behavior, inviting the client to collaborate, inquiring about client reactions to therapy, and reminding the client that it wa...

Tracking the Sequences of Patient-Therapist Dialogues by Coding Responses during Integrative Psychotherapy

Aim: The Assimilation of Problematic Experiences Scale (APES) for the coding of client responses and the Process Focused Conversation Analysis (PFCA) for coding therapist responses were applied to transcripts of a successful case of integrative psychotherapy of depression. Methods: the research method of the present research was case study. Dialogues (150) between a therapist and client in one ...

Multidimensional unconscious structural changes in Davanloo’s intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy. Part I

Davanloo’s intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy is a brief dynamic therapy that focuses on transference feelings and resistance. By doing so, therapist and patient can work together to enable the patient to have a full experience of unconscious feelings – namely rage, grief and guilt. However, this experience of unconscious feelings is not the only therapeutic factor. In addition, the the...

Psychotherapy Preliminary Data From a Randomized Pilot Study of Web-Based Functional Analytic Psychotherapy Therapist Training

Psychodynamic origins of VBDT

The practice of brief psychotherapy is a distillate of the active ingredients in longer-term work but with the addition of two special elements: limited time and therapist activity in formulating a focus and focusing on it. Typically, patient and therapist work together over 10 to 25 sessions in weekly meetings. In very brief dynamic psychotherapy (VBDT), the time frame is shrunk to fewer than ...