Jeanne Isaksen is a clinical psychologist and a certified specialist and supervisor in psychotherapy for adults, approved by the Danish Psychological Association. She has worked with ISTDP (Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy) for 22 years, having been trained by, among others, Patricia Coughlin, Jon Frederickson, and Josette ten Have-de-Labije. She continuously receives supervision from Professor Psychiatrist Dr. Allan Abbass.
One of the first Danish certified ISTDP trainers, she offers 3-year core training programs, introductory courses, post-core training, and supervision of psychologists, psychiatrists, and psychotherapists, alongside her private practice in Copenhagen. Jeanne has been one of the driving forces in bringing ISTDP to Denmark, including organizing several ISTDP seminars in the country. She later co-founded the Danish Society for ISTDP.
Jeanne previously completed a 5½-year psychotherapeutic training as a Body/Gestalt therapist, along with 2 years of training in systemic and solution-focused therapy.
Jeanne’s presentation
“The punisher”. Handling Guilt and/or punishment in the phase of unlocking the
unconscious. Restructuring anxiety in the smooth muscles and turning inward while
mobilizing up the unconscious feelings.
In this presentation we see how to work flexibly between standard and graded format with
the patient, while assessing the front, the major resistance-systems and anxiety channels,
as the unconscious feelings are moving up to surface in the Transference.
We will see how to work through a complicated unlocking to unconscious feelings and
memories – and a figure from the past showing up as a punisher in the portrayal – and
how to understand and deal with this, listening to the UTA.
We end the presentation in the plenum, where participants are invited to discuss and
reflect on the case shown. You as participant are also invited to reflect on you own similar
cases, where material in the phase of portrayal has been complicated to deal with, as this
is often a topic that are not so highlighted.