Analysis of the problematic nature of the concepts of mental illness and psychological (verbal) therapy. How psychotherapists influence persons. Examination of the economic, ethical and legal aspects of psychotherapy.
The client comes for help because he/she is "deeply" troubled. These "deeps" lurking inside problems need to be spoken about by the client and spoken to by the therapist/counselor. Otherwise practice fails its promise and becomes a bag of tricks for fixing problems.
Effective exposure based treatments work via cue exposure, response prevention, and reinforced "opposite action" (all the way). The principles of exposure treatments for anxiety disorders can be generalized to treat disorders of other emotions such as anger, sadness, jealousy, envy, shame and guilt. Opposite action can be taught as a skill.
The emotional problems, physical impairments, financial difficulties and, especially, how does someone nearing death cope with the belief that the world has become so much less caring and altruistic than it was in much of the previous century.
EP05 Conversation Hour 19 - Moral Disengagement in the Perpetration of Inhumanities - Albert Bandura, Ph.D.
This presentation examines the psychosocial mechanisms by which people selectively disengage moral self-sanctions from inhumane conduct. The moral disengagement may center on redefining inhumane conduct as a benign or socially worthy one by moral justification, sanitizing language and expedient comparison with worse cruelty; disavowal of personal agency in the harm one causes by diffusing or displacement of responsibility; disregarding or minimizing the injurious effects of one's actions and dehumanizing those who are victimized and blaming them for bringing the suffering on themselves. Given the many mechanisms for disengaging moral control at individual and collective levels, civilized life requires in addition to human personal standard, safeguards built into social systems that uphold compassionate behavior and renounce cruelty.
Supervision Panel 01 from the Evolution of Psychotherapy 2005
Featuring James Masterson, MD; Salvador Minuchin, MD; and Jeffrey Zeig, PhD
Moderated by Camillo Loriedo, MD
Supervision Panel 02 from the Evolution of Psychotherapy 2005
Featuring David Barlow, PhD; Francine Shapiro, PhD; and Michael White, BASW
Moderated by Daniel Eckstein, PHD
Supervision Panel 03 from the Evolution of Psychotherapy 2005
Featuring James Hillman, PhD; Arnold Lazarus, PhD; and Scott Miller, PhD
Moderated by Ellyn Bader, PhD
Supervision Panel 04 from the Evolution of Psychotherapy 2005
Featuring William Glasser, MD; Marsha Linehan, PhD; and Michele Weiner-Davis, MSW
Moderated by Bernahrd Trenkle, Dipl. Psych
Supervision Panel 05 from the Evolution of Psychotherapy 2005
Featuring Robert Dilts; Cloe Madanes; and Daniel Siegel, MD
Moderated by Michael Munion, MA