Habib Davanloo (October 10, 1927 – before April 2024) was a Canadian psychoanalyst and psychiatric researcher who worked in Montreal, Quebec, and developed Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy(ISTDP).
He was Professor of Psychiatry (now Emeritus) at McGill University[1][2] and founding editor of the International Journal of Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy.
Davanloo was a psychiatric resident under Erich Lindemann, a German psychiatrist who specialized in the treatment of bereaved and traumatized patients.
[5] Davanloo was the director of the Institute for Teaching and Research in Short-term and Dynamic Psychotherapy at the Montreal General Hospital.
[8][9] Davanloo's methods, which according to some authors were based on resolving Oedipal conflicts,[10] were widely discussed in psychiatric literature and[11] successfully used by many other therapists.