Navigating and Surfing the Rough Waters of Termination in ISTDP - Dr Abbass

Dr. Allan Abbass's 3-day online course will use video presentations to show how ISTDP handles common issues that arise during termination.
About this Event

Inside the course of time-limited or long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy, the phase of termination is crucial for the successful completion of treatment, as well as for the therapeutic work in the latter aspects of the treatment. Because of the mobilization of complex feelings about prior losses in separations, the phase of termination is a point of risk and anxiety for therapist and patient alike.

In this three day immersion course, Dr. Allan Abbass, with commentary by Tami Chelew and Matt Jarvinen, will review the process of termination inside of two time-limited treatment courses of ISTDP for personality disorders, and one long-term course of ISTDP for a person with severe personality dysfunction.

The main objectives of this course include the following:

Describe the core metapsychology of attachment and attachment trauma in ISTDP.
Name the different discharge pathways of unconscious, anxiety, and the emotions that are correlated with these pathways.
Describe the treatment phases in short- and long-term ISTDP treatment.
Explain separation reactions in termination, including anxiety, manifesting in new channels, suicidal ideation, and other reactions inside of time-limited course with patients with severe personality disorders.
Describe processes, including guilt immersion, anxiety regulation, dealing with fragmentation to handle termination reactions in fragile patients.
Describe the latter phases of working through to termination in a long-term ISTDP case
Describe the evidence base for ISTDP for complex and refractory patient populations

Reduced rates are available for group registrations and those in certain lower income countries. Email for details.

This immersion will be held online only. Because the course will be held online, it is open to the following groups of healthcare professionals and therapists : 1) those who are in an ISTDP or EDT Core training or supervision, 2) those who have previously completed an ISTDP/EDT Core training program, 3) ISTDP/EDT Trainers, 4) Colleagues of these 3 groups who will attend the immersion while physically being present in the same room, and 5) those who are part of any ISTDP/EDT Societies with signed confidentiality agreements. This is all to ensure confidentiality of case materials that will be reviewed and discussed.

This training is exclusively for licensed mental health and registered health professionals, including Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Social Workers, MFTs, Counselors, as well as Physicians, Nurses, Physical Therapists, etc. If you are not a mental health or health professional, you may not attend due to the protection of patient confidentiality. Students and trainees pursuing licensure or registration as a mental health or health professional under supervision are welcome. The course content level is Intermediate level.

16 Continuing Education credits are available for this event for an additional $35 and can be purchased here: (Link to be added). Participants must have paid tuition fee, logged in and out each day, attended the entire webinar, and completed an evaluation to receive a certificate. Failure to log in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates are available following course completion at www.ceuregistration.com. There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.

Schedule (set to start at 0 so you can adjust for your time zone):
June 5

30 Mins before: Enter Zoom Conference: Make sure Zoom Name is same as Registration

0-1:30 Introduction. Overview, Metapsychology and Trial Therapy

1:30-1:50 Morning break

1:50-3:00 Time-Limited Case 1

3:00-3:15 Commentary Tami Chelew/Matt Jarvinen

3:15-4:15 Midday break/Lunch

4:15-5:30 Time-Limited Case 1

5:30-5:50 Afternoon break

5:50-7:00 Time-Limited Case 1

7:00 Conclude Day 1

June 6

0-1:30 Time-Limited Case 2

1:30-1:50 Morning break

1:50-3:00 Time-Limited Case 2

3:00-3:15 Commentary Tami Chelew

3:15-4:15 Midday break/Lunch

4:15-5:30 Time-Limited Case 2

5:30-5:50 Afternoon break

5:50-7:00 Conclude Time-Limited Case 2

7:00 Conclude Day 2

June 7

0-1:30 Long-Term Case

1:30-1:50 Morning break

1:50-3:00 Long-Term Case

3:00-3:15 Commentary Tami Chelew

3:15-4:15 Midday break/Lunch

4:15-5:30 Long-Term Case

5:30-5:50 Afternoon break

5:50-7:00 Conclude Long-Term Case

7:00 Conclude Course

Feedback from former participants:

"Being able to see the videos along with his live commentary and follow-up questions made the theory very accessible and easy to follow."

"Dr. Abbass provided so many fabulous and practical cases and examples!"

Allan Abbass, MD, is a psychiatrist, teacher, and researcher. He is a professor of psychiatry and psychology and the founding director of the Centre for Emotions and Health at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. He is one of the foremost psychotherapy teachers and researchers in the world, and is the author of "Reaching Through Resistance" and "Hidden From View."