A Journey of ISTDP Mathilde Ørtoft Hansen

In this episode Johannes Kieding and I follow the UTA of our talk and meet topics like being ahead of the client, mesalliance and drop outs, character defenses, compliance in the transferance, bringing your self into the process, listening to the doubt of the client and UTA.

In this episode I talk to Patricia Coughlin about a change in my learning proces. We talk about anxiety vs. exitement, adult learning research and I try to understand the defence of disconnection with the clients bodily experience of feelings. And much much more. Join us on a bit more than an hours journey of ISTDP.

In this episode I welcome Tobias Nordqvist in an inspiring talk that offers new perspectives. Do we want to get rid of defenses asap or is there another way of viewing the presense of defenses in the room? Is passivity always a primary defense? How can the love we feel towards our clients affect therapy?

A good place to start this journey is with my coretrainer psychologist Brian Kok Ravn from Denmark. Some of the things that come up in this talk are:

The divergence between the images we get while reading the theory and how it plays out in practice
Missing out on opportunities in therapy
Getting to the problem
How defences can make it hard to get to a specific situation
The triangle of conflict
Is experimenting in the room "cheating"?
How wanting to be a succesful therapist in ISTDP can end up standing in the way

Welcome to my journey of ISTDP!