Unlocking the Unconscious: Selected Papers of Habib Davanloo, MD [New ed.] 0471956112, 9780471956112

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JNLOCKING THE u ^CONSCIOUS

UNLOCKING THE UNCONSCIOUS Selected Papers of Habib Davanloo,MD

Habib Davanloo D ep a rtm en t o f P sych ia try M o n trea l G en era l H ospital

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Davanloo, Habib Unlocking the uncon.scious selected papers of Habib Davanloo. 1. Medicine. Psychotherapy. Theories I Title 616.891401 ISBN 0 401 92744 9 Printed in Great Britain

TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1 Chapter 2

Intensive Short-term Psychotherapy with Highly Resistant Patients. I. Handling Resistance.................................................

1

Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy with Highly Resistant Patients. II. The Course of an Interview after the Initial Breakthrough.....................................................................................

29

Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy with Highly Resistant Depressed Patients. Part 1—Restructuring Ego's Regressive Defenses........................................................................

47

Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy with Highly Resistant Depressed Patients. Part II—Royal Road to the Dynamic Unconscious...................................................................

81

Chapter 5

The Technique of Unlocking of the Unconscious. Part I . . .

101

Chapter 6

The Technique of Unlocking of the Unconscious. Part II: Partial Unlocking of the Unconscious.........................

125

Chapter 7

Clinical Manifestations of Superego Pathology........................

163

Chapter 8

Clinical Manifestations of Superego Pathology. Part II. The Resistance of th*' Superego and the Liberation of the Paralyzed E g o .......................................................................................................

193

The Central Dynamic Sequence of the Unlocking of the Unconscious and Comprehensive Trial Therapy. Part I. Major U n lo ck in g ..........................................................................................

217

The Central Dynamic Sequence in the Major Unlocking of the Uncon.scious and Comprehensive Trial Therapy. Part II. The Course of Trial Therapy after the Initial Breakthrough. . . .

251

The Technique of Unlocking the Unconscious in Patients Suffering from Functional Disorders. Part I. Restructuring Ego's Defenses.................................................................................

283

The Technique of Unlocking the Unconscious in Patients Suffering from Functional Disorders. Part II. Direct View of the Dynamic Unconscious.............................................................

307

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Intensive Short-Term Psychotherapy with Highly Resistant Patients. I. Handling Resistance* This is the first of a scries of articles desc ribing a powerful technique of short-term dynamic psychotherapy. T h e essential initial stages arc: ( I ) challenging the resistance, which a p p e a rs in the form of a series of d efenses, (2) bringing into the o p e n the co n se q u en t intense transference feelings and enabling the patient to e x perienc e them , and (.■