Jon Frederickson - ISTDP - Anxiety

Thanks for posting this, Mike. Those videos look great.

For those who haven't read the other threads, I'll recap that ISTDP is a style of psychotherapy that is highly praised by a number of TMS Therapists, most notably, Arlene Feinblatt, who worked with Dr. Sarno for almost 40 years and has been referred to as the mother of all TMS therapists.

I've been trying to connect the TMS communities and the ISTDP communities since 2010, so I am on Jon's mailing list. Jon runs the ISTDP institute and I have added him to a mailing list I manage for TMS practitioners. Perhaps that is where he heard about the TMS documentary, All The Rage. Jon only sends out email blasts for the ISTDP institute very rarely, so I was quite touched that he took the time to send one out about All The Rage, encouraging people to join the kickstarter. Here is what he wrote:

Overcoming Pain
October 12, 2014
Unprocessed emotions can lead to pain through the discharge of anxiety or through the process of repression/somatization. One of the great supporters of ISTDP has been Dr. John Sarno, a long time advocate of addressing physical pain syndromes by addressing their underlying emotional causes.

See this link and consider supporting a kickstarter campaign which will support a documentary film on Dr. Sarno's campaign to show the public the emotional causes of pain. I think you'll find this film to be impressive in the ways that it shows how Dr. Sarno is supporting the basis of our work.

Founder, Jon Frederickson

Faculty
Allan Abbass, MD
Thomas Brod, MD
Patricia Coughlin, Ph.D.
Jon Frederickson, MSW
Allen Kalpin, MD
Susan Warshow, MSW

Permalink: http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=9215e0e584b71c4cdf0eac064&id=455098c336&e=f98d9683dd​

From his email, you can see that the ISTDP movement uses different language from the TMS movement. However, merely from the fact that Jon sent out an email about the Dr. Sarno documentary, it's clear that there are common, deeply held values and that we are working toward the same goal - helping people in pain.

Perhaps as a result of Jon's email blast, a number of people who contributed to the Kickstarter mentioned Alan Abbass, the leading mindbody ISTDP researcher. I was speaking with Rumur a couple of weeks ago, and it looks they are in touch with Alan. Plans can of course change, but they said they were planning on including him in the film. ISTDP is a well established movement with centers in many countries, so the more partnerships we can build the better chance we will have of helping more people.

Speaking of Allan Abbass, you've probably seen this, but we put him on our main ISTDP page.
http://www.tmswiki.org/ppd/Intensive_Short_Term_Dynamic_Psychotherapy
I've got far too many projects going now to ever get to the bottom of my many todo lists, but at some point I'd love to add the directories that you and Ellen shared in another thread as well (thanks for sharing them! I don't think I ever would have found them).

 

Here is Jon's survey response to our practitioner survey:
http://www.tmswiki.org/ppd/Survey_Response:_Jon_Frederickson,_MSW

I think it is great that he would participate in the programs of our tiny nonprofit.

 

It took a while, but I managed to find a link to the paper on Allan Abbass's web site:
http://www.istdp.ca/docs/2013Key_clinical_processes_in_istdp.pdf