Habib Davanloo

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Habib Davanloo (born October 10, 1927) is a psychoanalyst and psychiatric researcher and working in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, who developed Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy(ISTDP). He was Professor of Psychiatry (now Emeritus) at McGill University [1] [2] and founding editor of the International Journal of Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy. [3]

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Early life and education

Habib Davanloo is a Canadian psychiatric researcher of Iranian origin. Davanloo was a psychiatric resident under Erich Lindemann, a German psychiatrist who specialized in the treatment of bereaved and traumatized patients. [4]

Career

Davanloo was the director of the Institute for Teaching and Research in Short-term and Dynamic Psychotherapy at the Montreal General Hospital. [5] In 1962 he began to develop his technique for treating patients on a short-term basis, [6] creating and studying videotapes of sessions. He later gave seminars about his research and made the videotapes available. [7] [8]

Davanloo's methods, which according to some authors were based on resolving Oedipal conflicts, [9] were widely discussed in psychiatric literature and [10] successfully used by many other therapists. [11] [12]

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