For decades, psychotherapy based upon the paradigm of the individual, has focused on the intrapsychic world of the client. The focus is now shifting to the interpersonal, as a result of the appearance of the relational paradigm from the collective unconscious. This shifting of paradigms will challenge and transform the process of diagnosis and therapeutic interventions of all forms of therapy. This address will outline this historical shift and suggest its implications for therapy theory and practice.
Topical Panel 13 from the Evolution of Psychotherapy 2005 - Training Therapists
Featuring Harville Hendrix, PhD; Arnold Lazarus, PhD; Cloe Madanes; and Scott Miller, PhD
Moderated by Michael Munion, MA
Topical Panel 17 from the Evolution of Psychotherapy 2005 - Family and Couple Therapy
Featuring John Gottman, PhD; Julie Gottman, PhD; Harville Hendrix, PhD; Salvador Minuchin, MD; and Michele Weiner-Davis, MSW
Imago is couple's therapy that posits that all healing is relational. The core couples issue is ruptured connection, replicating the rupture of connection in childhood. The rupture and the defenses against it influence marital choice and the quality of the marital relationship. The core therapeutic challenge is to help couples restore and maintain connection. To that end, Imago therapists facilitate couples to reconnect using a specific dialogical process, that creates emotional safety, in which couples can help heal each other and grow toward wholeness.
Imago is couple's therapy that posits that all healing is relational. The core couples issue is ruptured connection, replicating the rupture of connection in childhood. The rupture and the defenses against it influence marital choice and the quality of the marital relationship. The core therapeutic challenge is to help couples restore and maintain connection. To that end, Imago therapists facilitate couples to reconnect using a specific dialogical process, which creates emotional safety, in which couples can help heal each other and grow toward wholeness.