Deconstructing Davanloo

Episode 4 - Now we're cookin'


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In this episode Deb and Maury engage with a listener's comment to consider claims to "truth" and what they entail, suggesting it might be useful to differential local truths from an "Ultimate" Truth.

Next they dig in to some of the key references to Freud in Davanloo's Unlocking the Unconscious. Throughout their analysis, they consider whether Davanloo was giving Freud enough credit, potentially using him as a straw man to prop up his own theory. They also acknowledge Davanloo's clear admiration for Freud and try to contextualize some of his tone and style with his socio-cultural position. They conclude by speculating on Davanloo's mixed feelings towards Freud, and the fact that they will take one more episode to consider their textual relationship.

References

Brod, Thomas (2010). Calving the iceberg: Davanloo’s new model of pressure, resistance, & therapeutic alliances in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Ad Hoc Bulletin of STDP, 14:1 p 5-17, April 2010.

Davanloo. H. (1984). Short-term dynamic psychotherapy. In Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 4th ed., H. Kaplan and B. Sadock (Eds.) Baltimore: William & Wilkins.

Davanloo H. (1990) Unlocking the unconscious. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.

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Deconstructing DavanlooBy Deborah Pollack and Maury Joseph