A clinician’s experience of being a client in ISTDP, and also training as a therapist. Click to view

Q. How did you first become aware of or interested in ISTDP? A. In 2006, after many years working as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, I had moved out of London and was intending to retire when I attended the First Oxford Conference put on by David and Jennie Malan. I was totally blown away by what [...]

Chartered Clinical Psychologist and ISTDP Trainer and Supervisor Q. How did you first become interested in ISTDP? A. In 2006, browsing through the magazine of the Division of Clinical Psychology British Psychological Society, I came across an advert placed by Jennie Malan about an ISTDP conference to be held in Oxford. I remember she promised [...]

The trainees of the ISTDP-UK Core Training, 4th cohort, had their graduation ceremony on 15 May 2015, having successfully completed their 3 years of Core Training in September 2014 with Dr Robert Neborsky and Dr Josette ten-Have-de-Labije. The group of five graduates included Sarah Corfe, Gordon Cunningham, James Louis, Miles Pulver and Anthony Theuninck. The event took [...]

How did you first become aware of or interested in ISTDP? It was whilst on a placement as part of my Clinical Psychology Training. My desire to know what to do in therapy to bring about maximum change had drawn me towards Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which has done some great research into how to make [...]

I wanted to share my enthusiasm about Susan Hajkowski’s presentation last night at the ISTDP-UK evening seminar series. As always it is a privilege to witness another practitioner’s work, and it is exciting to see the application of ISTDP within a UK context, especially in the NHS which is a complex system of care delivery that [...]

Susan Hajkowski is presenting a seminar on behalf of ISTDP-UK on Friday 13 March where she will be discussing her research and the application of ISTDP within the NHS. We are so looking forward to your seminar and thank you for taking the time for this interview.   How did you first become aware of [...]

Dr. Risha Henry has spent the past five years training to become an ISTDP psychotherapist under the supervision of Dr. Josette ten Have-de Labije and Dr. Robert Neborsky. At a recent seminar in London arranged by ISTDP-UK, Dr. Henry recounted the obstacles she had faced and her ongoing efforts toward overcoming them. Dr. Henry’s talk [...]

ISTDP-UK hosted a weekend conference and workshop in Oxford during June. This event was a landmark conference in being entirely presented by practitioners and members based in the UK.  The conference, masterminded and organized by Mimi Kester and Mo Percival was held at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford. Among the delegates were David Malan [...]