Theory and Practice of Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy

Ferruccio Osimo, MD, psychiatrist, is one of the founders of the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association and was its first president. He trained in dynamic psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic in London, where he carried out in-depth clinical studies on the quality of outcome, co-authoring with David H. Malan the book 'Psychodynamics, Training, and Outcome in Brief Psychotherapy' (1992). He attended Habib Davanloo's core training in Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy, and took part in the Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy Research Programme directed by Leigh McCullough at Harvard Medical School. His model of Intensive Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (IE-DP) is described in the 'Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy' (2002), in his book 'Experiential Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: A Manual' (2003), and in several scientific articles. Dr Osimo founded the Italian, UK, and Israeli core trainings in IE-DP. He maintains a psychotherapy practice in Milan, where he teaches at Universit#261; Statale, School of Psychiatry. He is the president of the Italian EDT Association. His clinical work has been presented internationally. Mark J. Stein, PhD., DClinPsy, is a Health Professions Council (HPC) registered chartered clinical psychologist at the Adult Psychological Therapies Service in Kirklees. He has completed core trainings in Intensive Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy with Ferruccio Osimo, and Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy with Josette ten Have-de Labije and Kees Cornelissen. His background has included research in clinical health psychology at the universities of Kent at Canterbury, Warwick, and Sheffield. In addition to treating patients in the National Health Service, he is a clinical supervisor for clinical psychologists in training at the universities of Leeds, Sheffield, and Staffordshire, and provides teaching on the experiential dynamic psychotherapies to clinical psychology doctoral students at the universities of Leeds, Sheffield and Nottingham.

'I wholeheartedly recommend this book. It enables the reader to observe closely the therapeutic process, highlighting the healing ingredients across different therapeutic styles. One of the book's strengths is in displaying plenty of variations on the theme of Experiential Dynamic Therapy (EDT) therapeutic techniques, always highlighting the real, personal aspects of the therapeutic relationship. This is consistent with research findings that emotional experiencing, therapeutic alliance, and motivation lie at the core of successful outcome. Annotations to the clinical material are accurate and well to the point, giving the reader a direct view and understanding of the change process.'- Leigh McCullough, PhD, Associate Clinical Professor, Harvard Medical School'This original and thoughtful book is distinctive in the way it emphasises that EDT is an over-arching term, embracing a number of therapeutic approaches. All of them, however, have a common conceptual core, which is outlined very clearly at the beginning. Ferruccio Osimo and Mark Stein, with a group of talented therapist colleagues (many working in the British NHS), have demonstrated how effective EDT can be with a range of patients in many settings. Impressively inclusive of a number of different techniques, each therapist gives a comprehensive, clear account of the methods that they are using, illustrating them with verbatim vignettes of actual therapies, all of which are touching stories in themselves. Additionally, the therapists explain as each therapy unfolds, why they made the interventions that they did, and do so in a refreshingly honest way that not only brings the whole process to life, but adds an important quality to the book as a whole.'- David Malan, DMFRC Psych, FRCPsych; IEDTA Emeritus President, Consultant Psychiatrist at the Tavistock Clinic, London (retired)

• Foreword -- Introduction -- Experiential Dynamic Therapy from History to Theory and Clinics -- A historical overview of experiential dynamic psychotherapies -- David Malan and the genesis of experiential dynamic psychotherapy in the UK 1 , 2 -- The essence of experiential dynamic psychotherapies -- Intensive Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy and application of the character hologram -- Clinical Applications of Experiential Dynamic Therapy -- Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapies in Primary Care Mental Health Services -- Experiential dynamic psychotherapies in the psychological treatment of a patient attending oncology services -- Experiential dynamic psychotherapies in the treatment of psycho-physical trauma -- Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy and the treatment of poly-symptomatic somatic patients -- Intensive Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy in the treatment of long-standing depression -- Using Intensive Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy to treat an underachieving gifted adolescent -- Experiential dynamic therapy in a university counselling service -- A client’s perspective -- Receiving the invitation to open up -- Training and Research -- Group Intensive Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy in a public mental health service -- Privileging relationships within our places of work: what can the principles of experiential dynamic therapy bring to public services? -- Experiential short-term psychodynamic therapy from the perspective of a cognitive-behaviour therapist: a personal account -- EDT in the context of psychotherapy research and mental health policy in the UK