Books
Maximizing Effectiveness in Dynamic Psychotherapy
By Dr. Patricia Coughlin
The best therapists embody the changes they attempt to facilitate in their patients. In other words, they practice what they preach and are an authentic and engaged, as well as highly skilled, presence. Maximizing Effectiveness in Dynamic Psychotherapy demonstrates how and why therapists can and must develop the specific skills and personal qualities required to produce consistently effective results.
The six factors now associated with brain change and positive outcome in psychotherapy are front-and-center in this volume. Each is elucidated and illustrated with detailed, verbatim case transcripts. In addition, a method of treatment that incorporates all these key factors — Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) — is introduced to the reader.
Therapists of every stripe can learn to develop and integrate the clinical skills presented in this book in order to improve their interventions, enhance effectiveness, and, ultimately, help more patients in a deeper and more-lasting fashion.

Published July 2016 by Routledge
Integrative Psychiatry
By Daniel A. Monti, MD, and Bernard D. Beitman, MD.
Contributing Author Dr. Patricia Coughlin wrote the chapter entitled “Facilitating Emotional Health and Well Being.”

Published by Oxford University Press
Lives Transformed
By Dr. Patricia Coughlin, written in collaboration with Dr. David Malan

Published by Karnac Books
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: Theory and Technique
By Dr. Patricia Coughlin, written in collaboration with Dr. David Malan

Published by Karnac Books
Papers & Journal Articles
“Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy” (an introduction) by Patricia Coughlin and Jeff Katzman Psychiatric Annals 43:11, 2013 – View/download PDF
“Facilitating Emotional Health and Well Being” — chapter in Textbook of Integrative Psychiatry (2009) – View/download PDF
Katzman, J. & Coughlin, P. (2013). “The Role of Therapist Activity in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.” Psychodynamic Psychiatry, 41, 73–88 – View/download PDF
Katzman, J; Abbass, A., Coughlin, P., Arora, S. (2014). “Building connections through Teletechnologies to augment resident training in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.” Academic Psychiatry, March
Coughlin, P. & Kazman, J. (Guest Editors). “Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy.” Psychiatric Annals, 43:11, 486–489
Mott, L. & Coughlin Della Selva, P. (2011). Intensiv dynamik coaghing – fordele ved en folelsesfokuseret tilgang. Elmhold, C & Tanggard, L. (Ed.). Forlelser i ledelse. Aarhus: Klim
Coughlin, P. (2010). “Emotional Health and Well Being.” In D. Monti and B.D. Beitman (Eds), Textbook of Integrative Psychiatry. NY: Oxford Universities Press
Coughlin, P. (2008). “The Practice of Psychotherapy: Lost or Found?” Psychotherapy Bulletin, 43, 33–35
Coughlin Della Selva, P. (2006). “Emotional Processing in the Treatment of Psychosomatic Disorders.” Journal of Clinical Psychology, In Session, April
Coughlin Della Selva, P. (2001). “Working to Identify and Remove Tactical Defenses.” Qadermidi Psychiatria Practica, 17/18, 37–47
Coughlin Della Selva, P. (2001). “Dynamic Assessment of Ego Functioning in Davanloo’s ISTDP.” In J. ten Have-de Labija (Ed.), The Working Alliance in Intensive Short_Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. The Netherlands: The Netherlands Foundation for Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy
Della Selva, P. C. (1993). “The Significance of Attachment Theory for the Practice of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy,” International Journal of Short-Term Psychotherapy 8, 189–206
Della Selva, P. C. (1992). “Achieving Character Change in ISTDP: How the Experience of Affect Leads to the Consolidation of the Self.” International Journal of Short-Term Psychotherapy, 7, 73–87
Della Selva, P. C. (1991). “The Emergence and Working Through of Pre-Verbal Rrauma in Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy.” International Journal of Short-Rerm Psychotherapy, 6, 195–216
Della Selva, P. C. (1987). “A Sleep Disorder: My Child?” In M. Weissbluth, Sleep Well. London
Affiliations & Links
Doctor Patricia Coughlin is a member of the following organizations:
Affiliations
Links
- ISTDP Institute – alleviating human suffering to build healthier communities.
- The STDP Institute of New York and New Jersey – The NJ/NY STDP Institute offers training and supervision in Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy and Accelerated Empathic Therapy.
- California Society for Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy – The Society actively supports the training and practice of ISTDP in Southern California.