Topical Panel 10 on Resistance, featuring Arnold A Lazarus, PhD, James F Masterson, MD, Erving Polster, PhD, and Jeffrey K Zeig, PhD.
Moderated by William McLeod, MD.
Topical Panel 11 on Group, Individual or Family Therapy Part 2, featuring Albert Ellis, PhD, Robert L Goulding, MD, Salvador Minuchin, MD, and Zerka Moreno.
Moderated by John C Racy, MD.
Topical Panel 12 on The Role of the Therapist / The Role of the Client, featuring Rollo R May, PhD, Carl R Rogers, PhD, Virginia M Satir, ACSW, and Thomas S Szasz, MD.
Moderated by F Theodore Reid, Jr, MD.
Supervision Panel 3 featuring Bruno Bettelheim, PhD, Albert Ellis, PhD, Salvador Minuchin, MD, and Miriam Polster, PhD.
Moderated by Stuart M Gould, Jr, MD.
Change in psychotherapy is a gradual process with predictable stages which can be understood and prepared for. Integrating new perspectives and behaviors requires attention to the needs of each of three phases: support, accommodation, and assimilation. These stages will be defined and demonstrated in work with volunteer workshop participants.
This approach is a short-term, focused psychotherapy that uses clear contracts for change, respect for the autonomy of the client, imaginative games, effective self-reparenting, and client redecision. Emphasized will be freeing the client from early "stuck" spots. Lecture, case presentation, and large-group exercises.