Case Discussion 01 Panel w/ Bruno Bettelheim, PhD, Murray Bowen, MD, Mary M. Goulding, MSW, and Thomas S. Szasz, MD. Moderated by William R. McLeod, MD.
Educational Objectives:
To describe the use of the new reality therapy in counseling.
To describe a therapist mode that talks to a client in terms of mental health.
Erickson demonstrates his utilization method of entering into the client’s world. He demonstrates his unique approach to working with dreams using a parallel process to stimulate strategic understandings of restrictive family patterns.
The study of psychological trauma has been accompanied by an explosion of knowledge about how experience shapes the central nervous system and the formation of the self. The study of trauma has probably been the single most fertile area in developing a deeper understanding of the relationship among the emotional, cognitive, social, and biological forces that shape human development.
Based on Perel’s Mating in Captivity, this bold take on intimacy and sex grapples with the obstacles and anxieties that arise when our need for secure love conflicts with our pursuit of passion. We will tackle eroticism as a quality of vitality in relationships extending far beyond mere sexuality and show how reconciling these two competing needs is at the heart of sustaining desire over time.
The possibility of utilizing memory plasticity for therapeutic purposes has not been widely recognized, although a number of theoretical and clinical venues during the past century have shown its potential application. This short course is aimed at shedding light on this broad field of hypnotherapeutic interventions and to present a primary map for the clinician interested in the psychotherapeutic implementation of MFI.
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.