ABSTRACT
In the early 1960s, Habib Davanloo decided to break away from the traditional psychoanalytic approach. In 1980, in his chapter, "A Method of Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy", Davanloo briefly presented his method of ISTDP which was based on three systematic studies, involving psychotherapy with respectively 130, 24, and 18 clients with psychoneurotic problems. Although Davanloo explicitly mentions the importance of the nature and quality of the attachment bond between child and caretaker in impacting the nature and quality of mental health. According to Bruce D. Perry and A. N. Schore, a growing body of evidence suggests that exposure to violence or trauma alters the developing brain by altering normal neurodevelopmental processes. Perry's clinical research has pointed out that trauma influences the pattern, intensity, and nature of sensory perceptual and affective experiences of events during childhood. The concept of psycho trauma refers to an individual's psychologically and physiologically damaged condition as a result of having experienced extremely threatening and harmful events.
