This address shows how clients can learn to get better rather than just feel better. They can learn to make a profound philisophical change, maintain it, and make themselves remarkably less disturbable even in the face of serious adversities.
Albert Ellis (2000) demonstrates with two volunteers. The first volunteer is angry and intimidated by her supervisors. Humor and imagery are incorporated. The second volunteer feels a need to control others and is angry when she can’t. Ellis uses imagery to correct cognitive patterns and produce an emotional shift.
EP00 Dialogue 02 - The Therapeutic Relationship - Albert Ellis, Ph.D., and Eugene Gendlin, Ph.D.
Given a topic, to become aware of the differing approaches to psychotherapy, and to identify the strengths and weaknesses in each approach.
Moderated by Ellyn Bader, Ph.D.
Topical Panel 01 - Humor
Featuring Albert Ellis, Ph.D., Frank Pittman III, M.D., Zerka Moreno, and Miriam Polster, Ph.D. Moderated by Michael Yapko, Ph.D.
Topical Panel 06 from the Evolution of Psychotherapy 2000 - Resistance
Featuring Albert Ellis, PhD, James Masterson, MD, Zerka Moreno, and Michael White, BASW.
Moderated by Christine Padesky, PhD.
All expressions of life are multi-layered, including people's descriptions of the problems they bring to therapy. An appreciation of this multi-layeredness of expression presents therapists with a multiplicity of options for therapeutic conversations. How can the multiple layers of expression be identified? How does this contribute to a range of options for re-authoring conversations?