Current Issue
No. 2 (2024): ISSUE #2: The End (and our journey there)
The theme of this issue is ‘The End (and our journey there).’ The ancient Stoics meditated on endings to focus their present lives: only by recognizing our mortality can we fully live. Memento mori. Similarly, in ISTDP, we invoke the future end of treatment – termination – as a strategy to engage patients with the here and now. As Davanloo states: “I can walk out when we say good-bye to each other, and accept that I failed. I can afford to be a failure – what can I do? I can do my best and say, okay I failed, what can I do further? But can you afford to be a failure?“
Published:
2026-01-04
