Resources

Core ISTDP Books

  • Abbass, A. (2015) Reaching through the Resistance.

  • Coughlin, Della Selva, P. (1996) Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy.

  • Coughlin, P. and Malan, D. (2006) Lives Transformed. London:

  • Frederickson, J. (2013). Co-Creating Change: Effective Dynamic Therapy Techniques.

  • Frederickson, J. (2020). Co-Creating Safety: Healing the Fragile Patient









Additional Texts

  • Alexander and French (1946/1980) Psychoanalytic Therapy Principles and Application.

  • Blackman, J. S. (2004). 101 Defenses: How the Mind Shields Itself.

  • Brenner, C. (1974. ) Elementary Textbook of Psychoanalysis.

  • Brenner, C. (1976). Psychoanalytic Technique and Psychic Conflict

  • Bruch, H. (1980). Learning Psychotherapy: Rationale and Ground Rules.

  • Davanloo, H. (Ed) (1980). Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy.

  • Davanloo, H. (2000). Intensive short-term dynamic Psychotherapy: Selected Papers

  • Fenichel, O (1945) The psychoanalytic theory of neurosis.

  • Feldman Barrett, L. (2016). Handbook of Emotions, 4th Edition.

  • Frederickson, J. (1999). Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Learning to Listen from Multiple Perspectives.

  • Freud, A. (1966) The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense.

  • Greenberg & Mitchell. (1983). Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory.

  • Greenson, R. (1967). The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis.

  • Guntrip, H. (1973). Psychoanalytic Theory, Therapy and the Self.

  • Havens, L. (1986) Making Contact: Uses of Language in Psychotherapy

  • Greenberg & Mitchell’s Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory (1983)

  • Malan, D.H. (1995). Individual Psychotherapy and the Science of Psychodynamics, 2nd ed.

  • McWilliams, N. (1999). Psychoanalytic Case Formulation.

  • McWilliams, N. (2004). Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide

  • McWilliams, N. (2020). Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, 2nd ed.

  • Mitchell, S. (2016). Freud and Beyond.

  • Peter Gay's Freud Reader (Penguin)

  • Rockland, L. (2003). Supportive Therapy: A Psychodynamic Approach

  • Strean, H. (1984). Resolving Resistances in Psychotherapy.