Intensive Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (IE-DP) for complex and multi-layered post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Under the influence of a recent severe physical and emotional trauma, on top of multiple early traumas, the patient presented developed a highly complex symptomatology, including somatic, perceptual, sensory, insomnia, inattention, migraines, anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts. The seminar will illustrate how Intensive Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (IE-DP) (which is one of the streams in the field of Experiential Dynamic Therapy - EDT) can accurately quantify its therapeutic components, and pave the way for the healing process, even when we are dealing with a shattered and dysregulated psycho-emotional system.

After an in-depth theoretical introduction, video clips from the treatment will be shown that demonstrate the steps and phases of intensive care for a patient suffering from the clinical condition described. The video is in English, and will be accompanied by English subtitles.

Intensive Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy (IE-DP) is an accelerated and therefore cost-effective psychotherapy model. It combines experiential, psychodynamic, and cognitive-behavioral techniques, in a way that shapes 9 main therapeutic components. This makes IE-DP versatile, and suitable for treating a wide range and variety of patients, presenting with different personality structures, symptoms, and motivation levels. The healing power of the genuine human connection between therapist and patient is at the heart of the IE-DP approach.

Seminar program:

9:00: Gathering

9:10: Opening remarks: Dr. Sharon Ziv Beiman, clinical psychologist, director of the Mifarashim Institute for Psychotherapy Research and Teaching. Ehud Halak, clinical psychologist, coordinator of the EDT Israel training program recognized by the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association - IEDTA

9:20: Opening lecture: PTSD symptoms as a key to contact with primitive unconscious layers.

Symptomatology and psychodynamics of complex PTSD. Patient-specific dosage of: reorganizing defenses and strengthening the self.

10:00: Clinical Demonstration: Implementation of Intensive Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy

(IE-DP) in severe physical and emotional trauma // Video clips from the initial phase of treatment known as: Trial Relationship.

11:00 Coffee break

11:15: Clinical demonstration: Working with the 9 components of the approach (IE-DP), centered on the human connection: the central stage in treatment. Discussion.

1:00 PM: Lunch break

1:30 PM: Clinical demonstration: Relief/resolution of PTSD symptoms, a new approach to life: final stage of treatment.

3:00 PM: Discussion and closing remarks.

3:30 PM: End.

About the lecturer:

Dr. Ferruccio Osimo -

He served as the first president of the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association (IEDTA). He is the author of the Intensive Experiential Dynamic Therapy (IE-DP) approach, based on the pioneering work of Canadian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Habib Davenlo, of whom Osimo was a student, and David Malan, Dr. Osimo's research partner. Davenlo developed a series of specific technical interventions designed to address defenses in order to elicit 'forbidden' emotions. Dr. Osimo's clinical studies with David Malan, John Bowlby, and Lee McCullough led him to place great emphasis on the human relationship with the patient, which is the basis for choosing the type of intervention that is effective at any given moment. Dr. David Malan wrote in the introduction to Dr. Osimo's book: Experiential Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy : "Dr. Osimo explains the principles of his technique with great clarity. His special contribution includes the detailed description of the different types of interventions available to the therapist to treat each of the three vertices of the conflict triangle. In particular, he claimed the concept of 'Maieutic' – newborn emotion, interventions that allow contact with the full emotional experience and an open expression of deep feelings (the word is derived from ancient Greek and means "midwife"). Dr. Osimo has trained many therapists and instructors in the field of EDT in the USA, England, Italy and Israel. The IE-DP approach is described in several articles and books that he and others have authored.