Jon Fredrickson
Jon Frederickson, MSW
Washington, USA
Morning Session
Sunday July 18th, 2010
“The Man Who Had 14 Previous Therapies”
When working with the treatment resistant patient we must assess what factors prevent the patient from developing a therapeutic alliance. This patient had been diagnosed with major depression, panic disorder, bipolar mood disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, somatization disorder, agoraphobia, and anorexia. This was in addition to his recovery from alcoholism and current addiction to opiates. The presentation will show how to assess and address the pathways of unconscious anxiety discharge and defense structure in the fragile patient so that we can establish therapeutic alliance. Particular emphasis will be placed on anxiety regulation and restructuring projection.Jon Frederickson, MSW, is co-chair of the Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy Training Program at the Washington School of Psychiatry. He also teaches ISTDP in Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Poland, and Italy. He has published over twenty articles and a book, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Learning to Listen from Multiple Perspectives.