Slide Restoring
the Primary Attachment Experiencing symptoms, anxiety, loneliness
self-destructive and self-punitive behavior before
a sense of relax, of communication and love
of the self and other people prevails now. Methodology

S. Freud discovered the Unconscious
H. Davanloo has discovered how to use it therapeutically

D. Malan

Dr. Konstantinos Monas

Psychiatrist – Psychotherapist

Dr. Konstantinos Monas is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist who worked as a member of staff at the Psychiatric Hospital of Thessaloniki from 1990 until the end of 2020, achieving the Greek NHS rank of Director.
In the beginning and for many years he worked in the Psychiatric Hospital’s Rehabilitation units, mostly with patients experiencing psychotic and mood disorders. For the last 13 years he worked at the Community Mental Health Center of the Central District of the city of Thessaloniki, of which he also served as the director, for six years. In parallel and for a great number of years he treated patients in a semi-private setting, through the outpatient service of the Psychiatric Hospital. While at the CMHC of the CD, he worked therapeutically with many cases of mental disorders, which involved primarily issues pertaining to mood (affective) disorders, anxiety and stress related disorders, somatoform disorders, as well as personality disorders. These were treated mostly psychotherapeutically, but quite often also pharmacologically, or less often, entirely pharmacologically. For the last ten years, his psychotherapeutic approach has been exclusively confined to Davanloo’s Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy.

What is Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP)

Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) is a relatively brief form of psychotherapy designed, implemented, and evolved from the 1960s to the 1990s by psychiatrist Dr. Habib Davanloo at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. It is a scientifically evidence-based form of psychotherapy, supported by numerous clinical studies to date.

The goals of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy are to enable the patient to experience all of their repressed emotions that are frequently triggered and cause distress, while simultaneously fostering structural changes in their character and personality. This is achieved by increasing their capacity to tolerate the anxiety elicited by their emotions, as well as helping them feel better about themselves and others, thereby improving their interpersonal relationships.