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.
An introduction to the brief therapy techniques developed at Mental Research Institute; sound and videotaped examples of such interventions from actual therapy sessions.
Workshop 19 - Family Systems Therapy, featuring Murray Bowen, MD.
Some of the cardinal principles in Family Systems Theory will be presented. It is important to diagnose the emotional posture of principal family members. A videotape of family therapy will be presented and discussed.
Hypnosis continues as the "mother of the psychotherapies" by contributing new approaches to human facilitation. Specifically, we will learn to use the therapeutic
double bind, symptom prescription, and ideodynamic channeling to assess and facilitate a patient's inner resources.
Invited Address Session 6 - Part 2 - The Family as Deduced from Twenty Years of Families Only featuring Carl A Whitaker, MD.
With discussant Albert Ellis, PhD.
Moderated by Camillo Loriedo, MD.
Educational Objectives:
To know the Indications and essentials for residential treatment
To know the staffing pattern required for residential treatment
To know the likely outcomes of residential treatment
Educational Objectives:
To describe the process that integrates the developmental perspective with object relations theory
To illustrate how the personal relates to the professional in the development of a theory
Invited Address Session 8 - Part 1 - The Promotion of Scientific Psychotherapy: A Long Voyage featuring Joseph Wolpe, MD.
With discussant Judd Marmor, MD.
Moderated by Harold Arkowitz, PhD.