Norsk Institutt for ISTDP (NI-ISTDP) inviterer til årets fordypningskurs i ISTDP (Immersion) med Dr. Allan Abbass.

Tidspunkt: 1. – 3. juni 2026, kl. 09.00-16.00 alle tre dager. 

Sted: Digitalt

Seminaret er åpent for:
– Psykologer/leger som har forkurs i ISTDP, eller tilsvarende erfaring med psykodynamisk teori og terapi.
– Psykologer og leger som tidligere har gjennomført sin videreutdanning eller advanced program gjennom NI-ISTDP (alumner).
– Leger og psykologer som følger en videreutdanning eller et advanced program i ISTDP er automatisk påmeldt årets fordypningskurs.

• Pris for alumner er 7.950,- for alle tre dager
• Pris for psykologer/leger er 11.550.- for alle tre dager

Fordypningskurs er godkjent som 21 timers fritt spesialkurs og som 21 timers vedlikeholdsaktivitet av Norsk Psykologforening(NPF).

Fragility and capacity building. The graded and pre-graded format

Dr. Allan Abbass’s 3-day online course will use video presentations to show how ISTDP can help bring structural changes in fragile patients.

Fragile character structure is a common cause of treatment resistance in psychiatric and psychotherapy patients of all diagnostic groups. Frequently misdiagnosed as a range of conditions, these patients are often heavily medicated, hospitalized and become involved in complex, destructive interactions with healthcare systems and therapists.

Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) has been specifically developed and researched through thousands of videotape case studies, to provide tailored processes of assessment, capacity building, psychic integration, and bringing structural changes through bracing and the «graded format» to help work through the intense complex feelings underpinning fragility.

Participants at the course will learn:

• Assessing the structure of the fragmented patient
• Finding and applying pressure against rapidly rotating destructive defensive systems including Splitting, Projected parts or modes, Projection, Dissociation, Repression and Self attack
• Using our own emotional responses to guide process
• Keeping continuous regard for patient
• When and how to do mode work to provide psychic integration
• When and how to quick link, brace, press, recap, and regulate anxiety
• How to use pressure, bracing, and recapping to build capacity
• The process of first breakthroughs to the unconscious
• The process of bringing dominance of the UTA over resistance
• The central role of guilt in building capacity: the immersive technique

About the speaker Dr. Allan Abbass:

Dr. Allan Abbass is Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology and founding Director of the Centre for Emotions and Health at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. He is a leading award-winning teacher and researcher in the area of Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, with over 300 publications and 400 invited presentations over the globe. Many of these articles can be viewed at www.allanabbass.com

He is known for simplifying the theory and technical aspects of the ISTDP model, with the use of algorithms, and through highlighting moment-to-moment processes that inform interventions. He has received numerous teaching awards, including two national awards in psychiatry, and has been honored with visiting professorships at several international universities and institutions, holds recurrent intensive training programs in Norway, Sweden, Italy, and Canada, and provides internet-based training to professionals and groups around the world.

Dr. Abbass’ critically acclaimed textbook on ISTDP “Reaching Through Resistance: Advanced Psychotherapy Techniques” was published in 2015. His latest book, Hidden from View: A Clinician’s Guide to Psychophysiologic Disorders (Abbass and Schubiner, 2018), deals with psychophysiologic disorders and how health professionals can diagnose and manage these conditions including the use of ISTDP techniques.