The emphasis in Dynamic Psychotherapy over the past few decades has shifted from a focus on insight and the recovery of early memories to a recognition that the quality of the patient-therapist relationship is the quintessential factor upon which the success of therapy depends. This involves both the real relationship and transference-countertransference elements, all within a systems-theory orientation.
This address includes a brief history of Reality Therapy, and explains that it is based on control theory and that it is applied to both counseling and managing clients. Case examples are used to show that it is composed of two major components: Creating the counseling environment and the procedures that lead to change.
Actually, namely historically (as well as autobiographically), "existentialism" preceded "concentration camp"- to be sure, existentialism only in the sense of something to teach and to learn, rather than - to live . .. Reminiscenses, episodes, and anecdotes will be illustrated by pertinent slides.
The enormous changes brought about in the last 25 years by the women's movement and the sex role revolution have opened new possibilities and problems-sources of conflict and new strengths for women, men and families. There is a challenge now for psychotherapists to break through their own remnant stereotypes of feminine mystique, masculine mystique, and obsolete assumptions about family so that they may distinguish between personal and political pathology and help evolving women, men and families find and use more consciously their new strengths and confront real problems realistically.
Topical Panel 01 from the Evolution of Psychotherapy 1990 - Essential Aspects of Psychotherapy.
Featuring James FT Bugental, PhD; Albert Ellis, PhD; Mary Goulding, MSW; and Carl Whitaker, MD.
Moderated by Camillo Loriedo, MD.
Topical Panel 02 from the Evolution of Psychotherapy 1990 - Treatment of Despression and Anxiety
Featuring Alexander Lowen, MD; Donald Meichenbaum, PhD; Paul Watzlawick, PhD; and Joseph Wolpe, MD.
Moderated by Michael Yapko, PhD.
Topical Panel 03 from the Evolution of Psychotherapy 1990 - Homework Assignments
Featuring Arnold Lazarus, PhD; Cloe Madanes, Lic. Psychol.; Mara Selvini Palazzoli, MD; and Jeffrey Zeig PhD.
Moderated by Carol Lankton, MA.
Topical Panel 04 from the Evolution of Psychotherapy 1990 - Brief Versus Long-Term Therapy
Featuring Judd Marmor, MD, PhD; James Masterson, MD; Donald Meichenbaum, PhD; and Mara Selvini Palazzoli, MD.
Moderated by Stephen Lankton, MSW.
Topical Panel 05 from the Evolution of Psychotherapy 1990 - Training Psychotherapists
Featuring James FT Bugental, PhD; Arnold Lazarus, PhD; Salvador Minuchin, MD; and Miriam Polster, PhD.
Moderated by Ellyn Bader, PhD.
Topical Panel 06 from the Evolution of Psychotherapy 1990 - The Language of Human Facilitation
Featuring William Glasser, MD; James Hillman, PhD; Ernest Rossi, PhD; and Paul Watzlawick, PhD.
Moderated by Betty Alice Erickson-Elliott, MS.