EP05 Workshop 35 - Etiology, Psychotherapy. Diagnosis and Treatment Indicators for Severe Personality Disorders - Otto Kernberg, M.D.
Present day knowledge and leading hypotheses regarding severe personality disorders will be reviewed, and their relationship to clinical characteristics of these patients clarified. A critical review of present classification will be followed by exploration of specific technical approaches to diagnostic interviewing and decision-making regarding specific therapeutic approaches to each patient.
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Dreaming is a natural human function from early childhood to late maturity. Beginning with Freud and Jung the practice of clinical psychology centered originally on dream analysis. The importance of dreaming has fallen into neglect in most contemporary therapies. This workshop offers practical cues for working with dreams to benefit participants own techniques, selfknowledge and their client's psychic equilibrium.
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EP05 Workshop 36 - Growth Games for BEING the Best Therapist - Jeffrey Zeig, Ph.D.
This "playshop" will consist of experiential clinician development exercises. While it is widely agreed that the person of the therapist is central to patient change, there are limited methods for developing the person of the therapist. Dr. Zeig will present a systemic model that can be easily transferred to make therapy and supervision more powerfully experiential.
EP05 Workshop 37 - A Tribute to Steve de Shazer: Originator of the Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Approach - Yvonne Dolan M.A.
This workshop will celebrate the theoretical, technical and clinical contributions of the late Steve de Shazer through video tape, lecture and discussion. It will include a brief preview of material from de Shazer's most recent book, More Than Miracle: The State of the Art of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy which updates the SFBT.
This workshop will explore the impact of gender, culture, class and race on our clinical practice, and describe techniques for working with clients who are culturally different from ourselves. The workshop will consider the relevance of cultural differences for families even many generations beyond immigration. The issue of stereotyping and emphasizing that everyone is ethnic will be dealt with, rather than approaching culture by focusing on the exotic, esoteric or different characteristics of minorities and new immigrant groups. Professor McGoldrick will demonstrate the use of genograms and family play to address cultural, racial and spiritual legacies and patterns in clinical assessment and intervention -- drawing them, interpreting them and applying them therapeutically.
EP05 Workshop 39 - The Five Most Dangerous Trends in the Field of Psychotherapy and How to Overcome Them - Cloe Madanes Co-faculty: Anthony Robbins
We are living in difficult times as the field of psychotherapy faces obstacles that threaten its very existence. Most therapists' incomes are not what they should be and neither is our position in the intellectual community. Madanes and Robbins will discuss the trends that we need to reverse and will present strategies to overcome these obstacles.
EP05 Workshop 34 - A New Leadership Role for Mental Health Professionals - William Glasser, M.D.
The leadership role in mental health has been assumed by psychiatrists who diagnose mental illnesses that do not exist and treat them with potentially harmful brain drugs. Dr. Glasser will explain that mental health separate from mental illness does exist if we could change from the mental illness model to a new public health model based on mental health. This will allow psychotherapists to assume a leadership role they don't have now.
This workshop will cover a broad range of problems presented by couples - from the most common to the most difficult, including such issues as violence and difficulties with money. The strategies presented will range from simple straightforward directives to paradoxical techniques and the use of humor.
Starting with a review of recent studies on the neurobiology of trauma, Dr. van der Kolk will examine the utility of approaches from the fields of hypnosis, body oriented therapies and EMDR, both with research data and videotaped clinical interventions. The integration of these approaches during different stages of treatment will be discussed.
Identity has to do with such questions as "Who am I?"; "What are my limits?"; "What is my purpose?" Clarifying the deep structure of our identity allows us to express ourselves even more fully at the level of our behavioral surface structure. It involves: Finding and clarifying our life's direction; managing boundaries between self and others; becoming clear about beliefs that support our identity and those which limit us; expanding our sense of self, and incorporating new dimensions of being.