Description: Madanes discusses the evolution of psychotherapy toward self-help and family-based approaches. Emphasizing the family as a healing system, she outlines strategies for addressing anxiety, abuse, and reconciliation through an 18-step program grounded in empathy, hope, and non-violence. Case studies illustrate practical interventions, and the discussion includes the use of self-disclosure, the limits of medication, and the importance of confronting violence and substance abuse in family systems. Includes response from Mary Goulding.
Syllabus Description: Some new and some very old concepts will be discussed and illustrated with stories of psychotherapy cases.
Educational Objectives:
*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*
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Cloé Madanes, HDL, LIC, is a world-renowned innovator and teacher of family and strategic therapy and one of the originators of the strategic approach to family therapy. She has authored seven books that are classics in the field: Strategic Family Therapy; Behind the One-Way Mirror; Sex, Love and Violence; The Violence of Men; The Secret Meaning of Money; The Therapist as Humanist, Social Activist and Systemic Thinker; and Relationship Breakthrough. She has presented her work at professional conferences all over the world and has given keynote addresses for The Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference, the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy; the National Association of Social Workers, The Erickson Foundation, the California Psychological Association and many other national and international conferences. Madanes has won several awards for distinguished contribution to psychology and has counseled outstanding individuals from all walks of life.
Mary Goulding, MSW, is one of the leading exponents of Transactional Analysis. Along with her husband Robert Goulding, she developed an approach called Redecision therapy which synthesizes Transactional Analysis and Gestalt. Together they founded the Western Institute for Group and Family Therapy in Watsonville, California, and co-authored two professional books about their approach. There is also an edited volume about the Redecision model. Mary has served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Transactional Analysis Association and is a Teaching Member of that organization. Her M.S.W. was granted in 1960 from the School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley.