Ferruccio Osimo
Ferruccio Osimo, M.D. was the first president of the IEDTA and recently retired as Adjunct Professor at Università Statale di Milano. He has trained and worked with David Malan in London, collaborating in research which resulted in the book Psychodynamics, training, and outcome in brief psychotherapy by Malan & Osimo (1992). His approach of Intensive Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy, originating from Habib Davanloo’s ISTDP, has a unique emphasis on explicit exploration of the therapeutic relationship as a basis on which therapeutic techniques can build. He started the Italian EDT Core Training in 2001 and the first UK-based advanced EDT training in 2006. His model of Intensive Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy has been presented internationally, and is described in the book Experiential Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: A Manual (2003).