Co-Creating Change: Effective Dynamic Therapy Techniques

Written for therapists, Co-Creating Change shows what to do to help "stuck" patients (those who resist the therapy process) let go of their resistance and self-defeating behaviors and willingly co-create a relationship for change instead. Co-Creating Change includes clinical vignettes that illustrate hundreds of therapeutic impasses taken from actual sessions, showing how to understand patients and how to intervene effectively. The book provides clear, systematic steps for assessing patients' needs and intervening to develop an effective relationship for change. Co-Creating Change presents an integrative theory that uses elements of behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, emotion-focused therapy, psychoanalysis, and mindfulness. This empirically validated treatment is effective with a wide range of patients.

Jon is on the faculty of the Washington School of Psychiatry where he is co-chair of the Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy Training Program. He is also chair of the Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy Training program of the Norwegian ISTDP Society and faculty on the ISTDP Training Program of the Italian EDT Society and the Laboratorium Psykoeducaji in Warsaw. 

He conducts trainings in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Italy, Lebanon, and the United States. He has a website istdpinstitute.com where you can download videos, webinars, and articles, and access ISTDP training online. You can also visit the ISTDP Institute Facebook page at facebook.com/DynamicPsychotherapy

His book, Co-Creating Change: Effective Dynamic Therapy Techniques, won the first prize in psychiatry at the British Medical Association Book Awards.