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EP17 Clinical Demonstration with Discussant 05 - The Therapeutic Conversation: A Reunion of the Minds - Erving Polster, PhD and Peter Levine, PhD
Original Program Date :
Length: 1:25:10
Description:
Personal disturbance is accompanied by feelings of disconnection within one’s self and with others. Reconnection is accomplished when the therapist guides the patient into a fertile conversational stream - a moment to moment impetus toward personal resolution.
Educational Objectives:
- Describe important statements that have been overlooked by patients.
- Describe the feeling of relationship between therapist and patient.
*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*
Erving Polster, PhD
Erving Polster, Ph.D in clinical psychology, is the Director of The Gestalt Institute of San Diego, and the author of several important books, including Gestalt Therapy Integrated, Every Person's Life is Worth a Novel, and From the Radical Center: The Heart of Gestalt Therapy, as well as dozens of articles and chapters. Erving has authored 6 books. In his current writings, he offers perspectives and designs for a communal application of psychotherapy principles. He also describes and celebrates a powerful contemporary momentum for people-at-large to join together in the search for personal and social enlightenment.
Peter Levine, PhD
Peter A. Levine, PhD, holds doctorates in both medical biophysics and psychology. He is the developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a naturalistic, body-awareness approach to healing trauma, and founder of the Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute, which conducts SE™ trainings throughout the world and in various indigenous cultures. Some of Dr. Levine’s other achievements include being a stress consultant for NASA during the development of the space shuttle project, as well as a consultant to the Sandia Labs during their report on preventing terrorism commissioned by the Department of Homeland Security in 2002. Dr. Levine was a member of the APA Task Force: Psychologists for Social Responsibility in developing responses to large-scale disasters and ethno-political warfare. He is currently a Senior Fellow and consultant at The Meadows Addiction and Trauma Treatment Center in Wickenburg, Arizona.
