The Two Triangles are Four: A Diagram to Teach the Process of Dynamic Brief Psychotherapy

Psicoterapia dinámica breve: Aproximación conceptual y clínica

“…En los referente a las psitorerapias dinámicas, Sifneos (14,15,39,40,41) incluyó evaluaciones contínuas, investigando el estado de los sujetos al comienzo y al final del tratamiento, constituyéndose los grupos de control por sujetos que entraban en lista de espera y que posteriormente fueron tratados con STAPP. Partiendo de una ~erie de criterios dinámicos previamente establecidos, dos evaluadores independientes estudiaban la evolución de los sujetos, que habían sido asignados al azar al grupo de tratamiento o al grupo de control.…”

Selling Dynamic Brief Psychotherapy and Teaching the Patient: Reflections On a Symposium

“…However, it must be in the second phase -I want to call it the`didactic phase'that the lasting therapeutic effects are brought about and consolidated. What I have already described in my two articles (Molnos 1984(Molnos , 1986 is what I had learned about this technique through Malan's teaching of it at the Tavistock Clinic. Accordingly, I concentrated on the challenging aspect.…”

“…In the article`The Two Triangles Are Four' (Molnos 1984) I described the therapeutic process that takes place in Davanloo's technique. There I followed Malan's conceptualization of the technique and mentioned that I would have further observations to make after having seen the videotapes myself.…”

Brief dynamic psychotherapy

“…Molnos (1984) has combined these into her four triangles in which the triangle of defence is experienced at different times in relation to other, therapist, and parent. Ryle (1990) similarly uses pictorial means to crystallise a focus, in his 'sequential diagrammatic reformulation' (SDR) (see Fig.…”