A Conversation with Erving Polster and Lynne Jacobs. In this wide-ranging conversation about their lives and their gestalt therapy passions, they also discuss a video session together. The conversations include a look at points of disagreement as well as points of agreement between them. The entire conversation consists of 8 chapters, so that viewers can easily skip through the video to the segments that interest them the most.
In part one of Seeding a Theme - A Teaching Seminar with Milton Erickson, you will witness Erickson seamlessly planting a seed, connecting the dots, developing a theme, and closing the loop in one class period. You will learn how Erickson conducted dissociation through the tempo, content and tone of his words.
In part one of Seeding a Theme - A Teaching Seminar with Milton Erickson, you will witness Erickson seamlessly planting a seed, connecting the dots, developing a theme, and closing the loop in one class period. You will learn how Erickson conducted dissociation through the tempo, content and tone of his words.
In part two of a Teaching seminar with Milton Erickson, you will witness how Erickson carefully observed and utilized a student’s non-verbal behaviors to developing a trance experience using arm levitation while simultaneously interacting to teach other students. You will see how Dr. Erickson strategically used hypnotic phenomena.
In part two of a Teaching seminar with Milton Erickson, you will witness how Erickson carefully observed and utilized a student’s non-verbal behaviors to developing a trance experience using arm levitation while simultaneously interacting to teach other students. You will see how Dr. Erickson strategically used hypnotic phenomena.
In part three of a Teaching Seminar with Milton Erickson, we continue the development of trance experience in the primary subject. You will encounter the experiential teaching method for which Erickson was renowned.
In part three of a Teaching Seminar with Milton Erickson, we continue the development of trance experience in the primary subject. You will encounter the experiential teaching method for which Erickson was renowned.
Join Milton Erickson at his teaching seminar in the late 1970s. You will encounter his innovative teaching methods prompting students to activate their utilization skills. Learn Erickson's process for creating memorable interventions with clients overly concerned about body image. Encounter his method of using nonverbal methods to evoke adaptive responses. Introduction and annotations by Jeff Zeig, Erickson Foundation Director.
Join Milton Erickson at his teaching seminar in the late 1970s. You will encounter his innovative teaching methods prompting students to activate their utilization skills. Learn Erickson's process for creating memorable interventions with clients overly concerned about body image. Encounter his method of using nonverbal methods to evoke adaptive responses. Introduction and annotations by Jeff Zeig, Erickson Foundation Director.
2.5 APA Continuing Education Credits available for an additional $10. Just add the stream to your cart and a pop-up window will ask if you want to add the CE credit. "Additional Participant CE" is to allow a secondary person to get credit for this video with you.
This training tool contains segments of hypnotherapy conducted by Erickson, with the same subject, on two consecutive days in 1978. Erickson demonstrates how symbols may be used as metaphoric forms of communication to foster new ideas and understandings. Zeig discusses Erickson’s technique.
2 APA Continuing Education Credits available for an additional $10. Just add the stream to your cart and a pop-up window will ask if you want to add the CE credit. "Additional Participant CE" is to allow a secondary person to get credit for this video with you.
Dr. Zeig introduces original 1964 footage and reveals Dr. Erickson's patterns with understandings gleaned from discussion with Dr. Erickson himself.
German dub. Dr. Zeig introduces original 1978 footage and reveals Dr. Erickson's patterns with understandings gleaned from discussion with Dr. Erickson himself.
2.5 APA Continuing Education Credits available for an additional $10. Just add the stream to your cart and a pop-up window will ask if you want to add the CE credit. "Additional Participant CE" is to allow a secondary person to get credit for this video with you.
Dr. Zeig introduces original 1978 footage and reveals Dr. Erickson's patterns with understandings gleaned from discussion with Dr. Erickson himself.
German dub. Dr. Zeig introduces original 1979 footage and reveals Dr. Erickson's patterns with understandings cleaned from discussion with Dr. Erickson himself.
2 APA Continuing Education Credits available for an additional $10. Just add the stream to your cart and a pop-up window will ask if you want to add the CE credit. "Additional Participant CE" is to allow a secondary person to get credit for this video with you.
Dr. Zeig introduces original 1979 footage and reveals Dr. Erickson's patterns with understandings cleaned from discussion with Dr. Erickson himself.
Demonstration provides dynamic, engaging demonstrations with two separate volunteers using nonjudgmental “chain analysis” to identify their problem behavior and look for controlling variables.
Bioenergetics is a way of understanding personality in terms of the body and its energetic processes. Lowen will illustrate this discipline with a volunteer.
Mary Goulding (1995) demonstrates with three volunteer clients. The first is disturbed because his mother did not spend much time with him during childhood. Next Dave is concerned about his distant relationship with his son. The third, Diane describes problems with her mother who is now a widow and overly critical. Goulding explains her work.
BT02 Clinical Demonstration 01 - Integrating Ericksonian Methods - Jeffrey Zeig, PhD
Educational Objectives:
1) To describe how to conceptualize challenging patients in a cognitive framework.
2) To describe how to use a cognitive conceptualization to plan more effective treatment.
BT02 Clinical Demonstration 03 - Connecting with the Inner Self in Psychotherapy - Stephen Gilligan, PhD
Educational Objectives:
1) To describe how therapists can connect clients to a calm, centering inner state.
2) To describe how connection to the inner self can allow new resources and solutions to develop.
BT02 Clinical Demonstration 04 - Cognitive Therapy of a Personality Disordered Patient - Arthur Freeman, EdD
Educational Objectives:
1) To describe a structured, directive CBT interview.
2) Given a CBT case, identify a problem and make a treatment plan.
BT02 Clinical Demonstration 05 - Facilitating the Creative Dynamics of Gene Expression and Brain Growth - Ernest Rossi, PhD
Educational Objectives:
1) To describe the group induction of therapeutic hypnosis with ideodynamic methods.
2) To list the four stages of the creative process in therapeutic hypnosis.
BT02 Clinical Demonstration 07 - Redecision Therapy - Mary Goulding, MSW
Educational Objectives:
1) To describe how to establish a therapeutic contract.
2) Given a client, describe how to do work important to the client in 30 minutes.
BT02 Clinical Demonstration 08 - Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy - Albert Ellis, PhD
Educational Objectives:
1) To describe how to do REBT briefly.
2) To name three techniques that REBT includes.
BT02 Clinical Demonstration 09 - Hypnosis and Goal-Oriented Therapy - Michael Yapko, PhD
Educational Objectives:
1) To identify four attitudes that support panic.
2) To list five types of interceptive exposure that can be conducted in the treatment office.
BT02 Clinical Demonstration 10 - Healing Difficult Relationships Through the Application of Different Perceptual Positions - Robert Dilts
Educational Objectives:
1) To define the three perceptual positions used with challenging relationships.
2) To describe how to guide clients to forge new understandings with significant others.
BT02 Clinical Demonstration 12 - Fleshing Out the Story-Line in Gestalt Therapy - Erving Polster, PhD
Educational Objectives:
1) Given a case, name and describe a gestalt technique.
2) To describe how to regulate the ease or difficulty of a gestalt experiment.
BT03 Clinical Demonstration 01 - Experiential Engagement in Integrative Therapy - Jeffrey Zeig, PhD
Educational Objectives:
1) To list three integrative methods in the demonstration.
2) Given a patient, propose an integrative treatment plan.
BT03 Clinical Demonstration 03 - Facilitating the Four-Stage Creative Process in Psychotherapy - Ernest Rossi, PhD
Educational Objectives:
1) To name the essentials of a behavioral activity-dependent approach to creative work.
2) To list the four stages of the creative process in psychotherapy.
BT03 Clinical Demonstration 04 - Cognitive-Behavioral Techniques with Couples - Frank Dattilio, PhD
Educational Objectives:
1) To identify maladaptive schemas and dysfunctional thoughts.
2) To describe how to integrate cognitive-behavioral skills into treatment.
BT03 Clinical Demonstration 05 - Connecting with the Inner Self in Psychotherapy - Stephen Gilligan, PhD
Educational Objectives:
1) To describe how therapists can connect clients to a calm, centering inner state.
2) To describe how connection to the inner self can allow new resources and solutions to develop.
BT03 Clinical Demonstration 07 - Attunement as a Clinical Technique - Pat Love, EdD
Educational Objectives:
1) To describe the clinical effectiveness of attunement.
2) Given a case, integrate the importance of attunement in clinical practice.
BT03 Clinical Demonstration 08 - Solution-Focused Supervision - Yvonne Dolan, MA
Educational Objectives:
1) To identify two practical questions that are useful for solution- focused supervision.
2) To identify two criteria for maximizing therapist effectiveness through supervision.
BT03 Clinical Demonstration 09 - Possibilities and Probabilities in Hypnosis - Michael Yapko, PhD
Educational Objectives:
1) To describe how hypnosis may enhance problem solving.
2) To describe how hypnosis may serve as a vehicle for building expectations of success.
BT03 Clinical Demonstration 10 - Strategic Treatment of Panic Disorder - R. Reid Wilson, PhD
Educational Objectives:
1) To describe framing the treatment approach with a client with panic disorder.
2) To describe interoceptive exposure within the initial interview.
BT03 Clinical Demonstration 11 - Outframing Limiting Beliefs - Robert Dilts
Educational Objectives:
1) To describe one method to help clients develop new perspectives with respect to limiting beliefs and assumptions.
2) To describe how to lead clients to reflect on themselves from different time frames and perceptual positions.
BT03 Clinical Demonstration 12 - Pain Control in Brief Therapy - Stephen Lankton, MSW, DAHB
Educational Objectives:
1) To describe the use of three trance phenomena in the reduction of pain.
2) To describe how hypnosis for pain control can be introduced in brief therapy.
BT06 Keynote 01 - Social Connections and Neural Connections: How Promoting Neural Integration Can Make Brief Encounters into Lasting Change - Daniel Siegel, MD
This keynote address will provide an overview of the interdisciplinary view of the mind and mental health. Over 60,000 mental health providers have been asked about their formal education in these areas and less than 5% have had seminars defining these two basic aspects of psychotherapy. This presentation will offer a view based on science of the definition of the mind and well-being and explore ways in which brief therapy can foster rapid and lasting change.
BT06 Keynote 02 - Simplicity and Intensity in Brief Therapy: A Clinical Demonstration - Erving Polster, PhD
Through the special focus which therapy technique induces, therapists often lose touch with the power of such ordinary experiences as humor, friendliness, self-disclosure, approval/disapproval, banter, etc. via a live therapy session, Polster will show how these exchanges may join technique to tighten up the therapy experience and speed up the process.
BT10 Clinical Demonstration 01 – Increasing Impact in Experiential Psychotherapy - Jeffrey Zeig, PhD
Educational Objectives:
List three essentials of experiential therapy.
Given a patient with a behavior problem, create an experiential treatment plan to elicit change.
BT10 Clinical Demonstration 02 – Contract, Causality, Congruence: A Brief but Effective Model for Couples - Pat Love, EdD
The Three C’s Model using contract, causality and congruence as a treatment plan helps clients confront the very defenses that keep them from creating the satisfying relationships they long for. Live demonstration with a couple.
BT10 Clinical Demonstration 03 - A Constructive Narrative Approach to Cognitive Behavior Therapy - Donald Meichenbaum, PhD
This presentation will demonstrate the heuristic value of using a Case Conceptualization Model to inform assessment and treatment decision- making ; the "art of Socratic questioning; a strength-based treatment approach and ways to implement the Core Tasks of psychotherapy. A Constructive Narrative treatment approach that focuses on the nature of the client's "story-telling" features will be highlighted.
BT10 Clinical Demonstration 04 – Facilitating “The Creative Psychosocial Genomic Healing Experience” in Brief Psychotherapy - Ernest Rossi, PhD
A new, easy-to-learn 20 minute protocol for facilitating the ideo-plastic faculty of therapeutic hypnosis and brief psychotherapy. It is neuroscience evidence-based process for facilitating problem solving via (1) Optimized gene expression, (2) Reduced cellular oxidation, & (3) Reduced inflammation.
BT10 Clinical Demonstration 05 – Generative Trance and Transformation - Stephen Gilligan, PhD
This session will illustrate the Ericksonian utilization principle, which states that under proper conditions, a problem may easily transform into a solution. The demonstration will show how to develop such conditions via the experience of “generative trance,” such that positive shifts in a person’s somatic, cognitive and field experience lead to positive changes.
BT10 Clinical Demonstration 06 – Treatment of Worry - Reid Wilson, PhD
We all worry. It’s an important signal that helps us plan our time and efforts. But the noise of worry can become like a boombox in our heads with no off-switch. This demonstration will help a client face unneeded worries head-on and deplete their energy rather than trying to avoid them.
BT10 Clinical Demonstration 07 – Stage One of EFT for Couples - Sue Johnson, EdD
The therapist will illustrate steps 2-4 of EFT, that is delineating the negative cycle, and unpacking underlying emotions to create a coherent picture of the couples problems as seen through an attachment lens.
BT10 Clinical Demonstration 08 – Crossing Belief Barriers by Creating a Belief Bridge - Robert Dilts
Beliefs are a powerful influence on our lives. It is common wisdom that if someone really believes he can do something he will do it, and if he believes something is impossible no amount of effort will convince him that it can be accomplished. This demonstration will show how to elicit and transform limiting beliefs through a simple methodology that engages somatic and non-verbal interactions with the client as well as verbal dialog.
BT10 Clinical Demonstration 09 – Strength-Based Brief Therapy - Bill O'Hanlon, MS
Strength-based therapy elicits people’s abilities, previous solutions, strengths and resources in bringing about change. Watch Bill O’Hanlon, cofounder of the solution-oriented approach, demonstrate this evocative approach to brief therapy.
BT10 Clinical Demonstration 10 – Brief Couples Therapy - Jon Carlson, PsyD, EdD, ABPP
An initial session with a couple that will help them to can insight into a present relationship problem. The four step process will help the couple identify clear action steps to use in creating a more satisfying partnership.
BT10 Clinical Demonstration 11 – Focusing on What’s Right: Hypnosis and Amplifying Personal Resources - Michael Yapko, PhD
Hypnosis as a tool of treatment has become increasingly important as more and more schools of psychotherapy come to the obvious realization that your focus defines you. What a difference to focus on what’s right with someone than to focus on what’s wrong! In this demonstration, hypnosis will be used as a means of identifying and consolidating personal resources that can assist in promoting a higher level of well being.
BT10 Clinical Demonstration 12 - Eliciting the Internal Sequence of a Problem in Detail: Live Demonstration of Therapy - Steve Andreas, MA
Every problem has a sequence of internal experiences—images, sounds, words, and feelings--that elicits the undesired outcome. Saying, “Let’s say I had to fill in for you for a day,” can be a doorway to eliciting this sequence in detail and discovering exactly how it works, providing multiple choices for intervention.
BT10 Keynote 01 - Couple Therapy in the 21st Century - Sue Johnson, EdD
Couple therapy will flourish as this field integrates research from social and neuropsychology and clarifies the processes that mediate change in love relationships. It will address more and more “individual” physical and mental health problems, relationship traumas and sexual issues. We can integrate science and the sizzle of “hot” emotion to transform individuals and relationships.
BT10 Keynote 04 - Core Tasks of Psychotherapy: What "Expert" Therapists Do - Donald Meichenbaum, PhD
Following a brief discussion of the nature of expertise, the implications for psychotherapists will be considered. How to formulate collaboratively a Case Conceptualization Model that informs treatment decision -making will be presented. How to implement the Core Tasks of Psychotherapy and evidence-based behavioral change principles will be examined.
BT10 Keynote 06 - What is Psychotherapy? - Thomas Szasz, MD
Millions of Americans are overweight or obese. Medication and psychotherapy may result in modest weight loss but nearly all regain weight within five years. The missing ingredient for successful treatment is cognition. To make permanent changes in their eating behavior, and thus their weight, individuals must learn how to change their dysfunctional ideas about food, eating, other people, and themselves and learn how to cope with a sense of unfairness, deprivation, disappointment, and discouragement. Cognitive behavioral approaches have been demonstrated to be effective for this problem.
BT12 Clinical Demonstration 01 - Increasing Impact in Experiential Psychotherapy - Jeffrey Zeig, PhD
Psychotherapy is a symbolic drama of change, the imperative of which is: “by living this experience you will be different.”
Educational Objectives:
List three essentials of experiential therapy.
Given a patient with a behavior problem, create an experiential treatment plan to elicit change.
BT12 Clinical Demonstration 03 - Generative Trance and Transformation - Stephen Gilligan, PhD
This demonstration will show how problems/symptoms may be viewed as attempts by the creative unconscious to bring transformation and healing, and how the development of a generative trance can allow that transformation to be realized.
BT12 Clinical Demonstration 05 - Creating Consciousness with Activity-Dependent Gene Expression and Brain Plasticity - Ernest Rossi, PhD
The new Neuroscience of utilizing Implicit Processing Heuristics in facilitating the 4-stage creative process in the construction and creative reconstruction of fear, stress and post traumatic memories and symptoms during brief psychotherapy will be demonstrated with the entire audience, as well as a volunteer.
BT12 Clinical Demonstration 07 - The Art of Making Small Changes in Brief Therapy - Bill O’Hanlon, MS
It is often easier for clients to make small rather than dramatic changes. This demonstration will show how to help people make the smallest change to make a significant difference in moving out of their problems and suffering. This method can be especially useful for clients who are reluctant to or resistant to change.
BT12 Clinical Demonstration 09 - Somatic Psychotherapy - Peter Levine, PhD
Somatic Experiencing® - a short-term naturalistic approach to the resolution and healing of trauma. Levine addresses the issues at the heart of trauma and attachment; the upcoming DSM-5 Diagnoses and Disorders and the most effective and promising treatment modalities available to clinicians today.
BT12 Clinical Demonstration 11 - Hypnosis as a Means of Promoting Empowerment - Michael Yapko, PhD
Contrary to the popular mythology about hypnosis, clinical hypnosis enhances personal mastery by promoting greater self-awareness, increasing access to personal resources, and amplifying of a sense of personal agency in actively choosing growth-oriented responses. How hypnosis can help empower people will be highlighted in this clinical demonstration.
BT12 Workshop 15 – Attention: The Elixir of Therapeutic Growth – Erving Polster, PhD
Dr. Polster will flesh out the roles of an attention triad of concentration, fascination and curiosity in evoking amplified interpersonal immersion in the therapeutic process. The resulting involvement leads to a quasi-hypnotic energy opening the client to new experience. Conceptual perspectives will be elaborated, augmented by live demonstrations of therapy sessions.
BT12 Workshop 30 – Changing the Doing, Viewing and Context: The Essence of All Brief Therapy – Bill O’Hanlon, MS
After making a connection with and establishing a relationship with the client, I contend that all brief therapy relies on some variation or combination of three interventions: Changing the doing (actions/interactions), changing the viewing (focus of attention and meaning attribution/interpretation) and changing the context (the social or physical environment) involved in or around the problem. The session will give details about how to conceptualize and implement these shifts in brief clinical work.
BT12 Workshop 39 – The Art of Persuasion: Changing the Mind on OCD – Reid Wilson, PhD
Persuading OCD clients to adopt a new frame of reference is the therapist’s primary task. Altering perception– not adding technique–helps them change directions, because belief always trumps exposure practice. Participants will learn a persuasive strategy–built out of whole cloth within the first session–that will frame the entire treatment protocol.
BT14 Clinical Demonstration 01 - Utilization: The Foundation of Solutions - Jeffrey Zeig, PhD
All of Milton Erickson’s cases are based in utilization. It is an “alchemical formula” of turning lead into gold. Utilization is not a technique; it is an orientation that the therapist assumes. Utilization is an orientation of sufficiency that is the opposite of psychological problems, which can be viewed as believed in insufficiencies.
BT14 Clinical Demonstration 02 - Transforming Grief into Gratitude - Steve Andreas, MA
Most “grief work” involves expressing grief fully, or saying “goodbye” to the lost person, neither of which resolves the feeling of loss. Full resolution reconnects with the treasured felt experience of the lost person, using it as a positive resource to move forward and reengage the world in the present.
BT14 Clinical Demonstration 03 – Stage 1 of EFT: The Process of De-Escalation – Sue Johnson, EdD
A session at an EFT Externship shows how the EFT therapist helps a distressed couple grasp and distill both their negative interactive cycle that generates distance and the female partners depression and their underlying attachment emotions and needs. At the end of the session, the couple has begun to create a secure base from which to deepen and restore their emotional bond. Dr. Johnson will comment on the process of therapy and interventions as they are viewed.
BT14 Clinical Demonstration 04 - Psychosocial Genomics: Utilizing the 4-Stage Creative Process Treating Anxiety, Depression, and Trauma - Ernest Rossi, PhD
Group and individual demonstrations of psychosocial genomics as the art and science of counseling and psychotherapy that utilizes our natural 4-stage creative cycle for facilitating gene expression and brain plasticity to optimize the resolution of anxiety, depression, trauma and problem solving in everyday life.
BT14 Clinical Demonstration 05 - Generative Psychotherapy: How to Create Transformational Change - Stephen Gilligan, PhD
This demonstration will show how problems/symptoms may be viewed as attempts by the creative unconscious to bring transformation and healing, and how the development of a generative trance can allow that transformation to be realized.
BT14 Clinical Demonstration 06 - Contract, Causality, Congruence: A Brief Couples Therapy Approach - Pat Love, EdD
Using the client’s goals for therapy as a treatment approach can move the session toward positive outcomes.
BT14 Clinical Demonstration 07 - Possibility Therapy - Bill O'Hanlon, MS
This demonstration will show the use of a gentle brief therapy method that uses the best of client-centered therapy and Ericksonian methods to meet the person where he or she is and rapidly invite him or her into new possibilities.
BT14 Clinical Demonstration 08 - Strategic Treatment of Anxiety Disorder - Reid Wilson, PhD
The therapist will offer a simple, active paradoxical strategy that the client can integrate into their belief system about therapeutic change and then implement in a moment-by-moment to respond to anticipatory worries and the urge to avoid. The therapeutic stance of “seeking out” in this model hits squarely at any person’s tendency to resist.
BT14 Clinical Demonstration 09 - Processing Traumatic Memories - Bessel van der Kolk, MD
Educational Objectives:
Demonstration of how understanding the neuroscience of trauma can help.
BT14 Clinical Demonstration 11 - Hypnosis and Personal Empowerment - Michael Yapko, PhD
Contrary to the popular mythology, what makes hypnosis valuable is its ability as a tool to create a safe and comfortable context for self-exploration. As a direct consequence, people routinely find overlooked or dormant resources that would help empower them to not only feel better but be better. In this demonstration, we'll explore how hypnosis might be helpful in increasing a sense of personal empowerment.
BT14 Clinical Demonstration 12 - Feedback Informed Treatment: A Clinical Demonstration - Scott Miller, PhD
This demonstration will feature Feedback-Informed Treatment, a pantheoretical approach for evaluating and improving the quality and effectiveness of behavioral health services. It involves routinely and formally soliciting feedback from consumers regarding the therapeutic alliance and outcome of care and using the resulting information to inform and tailor service delivery.