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In Time-Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy, Dr. Hanna Levenson demonstrates an attachment-based, empirically supported, brief approach that privileges experiential learning. Time-limited dynamic psychotherapy originated as an interpersonal, time-sensitive approach for clients with chronic, pervasive, dysfunctional ways of relating to others.
This therapy is very focused and requires being attuned to the client; staying aware of one's countertransference; recognizing transference–countertransference reenactments; and providing corrective, interpersonal experiences in the therapy relationship. The goal is not symptom reduction, per se, but rather to change ingrained relational patterns.
In this session, Dr. Levenson works with a woman whose relationship with her second husband seems to echo her relationship with her father. Dr. Levenson helps her to begin to understand the cycle of maladaptive relationships she has cocreated in her life, and instills hope and direction for future work.
Time-limited dynamic psychotherapy (TLDP) originated as an interpersonal, time-sensitive approach for clients with chronic, pervasive, dysfunctional ways of relating to others (Strupp & Binder, 1984). However, its premises and techniques are broadly applicable regardless of time limits. The brevity of the treatment promotes therapist pragmatism, flexibility, and accountability (Levenson, Butler, Powers, & Beitman, 2002). Furthermore, time pressures help keep the therapist attuned to circumscribed goals using an active, directive stance (Levenson, Butler, & Bein, 2002). The focus is not on the reduction of symptoms per se (although such improvements are expected to occur), but rather on changing ingrained patterns of interpersonal relatedness or personality style.
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The professional career of reflects a 30-year dialectic between intrapsychic and relational perspectives, insight and experiential learning, and clinical practice and scientific inquiry. Originally trained in personality theory and social psychology at Claremont University in California, she later retrained in clinical psychology at the University of Florida, Coral Gables, then interned at Langley Porter Institute (University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine) in 1976.
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