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Co-Creating Safety

Some patients are crippled by fear and anxiety. To help the 50 percent of patients who drop out of therapy before they have received its full benefits, therapists must know how to make therapy a safe place. Only if patients feel safe in their body and with the therapist can they feel safe enough to change. Co-Creating Safety provides clear, systematic steps for assessing and meeting patients' needs. Every technique is illustrated with a vignette. Representing hundreds of therapeutic impasses taken from actual sessions, the vignettes show therapists what to say so they can assess and respond to patients' needs moment by moment, help patients develop and keep an effective focus that leads to change, help regulate patients' anxiety, deactivate misperceptions of the therapist and therapy, help patients see and let go of defenses that cause their symptoms, help them overcome their fears and face their feelings, and help them let go of insecure attachment strategies to form a healing relationship.

Jon Frederickson

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 www.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 http://www.facebook.com/DynamicPsychotherapy His book, Co-Creating Change: Effective Dynamic Therapy Techniques (May 2013), won the first prize in psychiatry at the British Medical Association Book Awards. His new book, The Lies We Tell Ourselves: How to Face the Truth, Accept Yourself and Create a Better Life was published on January 1, 2017.

Seven Leaves Press