Beginning in the 1960s, Dr. Habib Davanloo began working to develop a highly effective and efficient technique of dynamic psychotherapy. Through the use of audio-visual recording of actual diagnostic interviews and full courses of psychotherapy, he has, over the decades of his work, elucidated unconscious processes and developed a New Metapsychology of the Unconscious'. His more recent work has focused on the refinement of his technique of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) as well as the development of a method of psychoanalysis which has the power to bring multidimensional structural character changes in the extremely resistant patient with the most complex pathogenic unconscious' (Davanloo, 1995a). He has extensively presented his metapsychology to professional audiences in the form of symposia, courses and training programs and many of his actual cases have been published in the form of case reports.
By virtue of his discovery of the powerful technique of Unlocking the Unconscious' (Davanloo, 1986c(Davanloo, , 1988b) ) he has afforded a unique opportunity to view the core neurotic structure that is central to a wide range of symptom neurotic and character neurotic disturbances (Davanloo, 1995a). Central to his technique of unlocking the unconscious is a thorough understanding of the metapsychology of the unconscious. He has elucidated fundamental principles in the operation of unconscious processes, such as the twin factors of Transference and Resistance (Davanloo, 1986a,b), the Unconscious Therapeutic Alliance' (Davanloo, 1987a), the role of character defenses (Davanloo, 1995aยฑc) and tactical defenses (Davanloo, 1996a,b) and the role of projective identification in symptom formation (Davanloo, 1995c). He has also discovered and described aspects of the technique of psychotherapy that are crucial to this most powerful method of