Invited Address Session 11 - Part 1 - Gestalt Therapy: Evolution and Application featuring Miriam Polster, PhD.
With discussant Robert L Goulding, MD.
Moderated by F Theodore Reid, Jr, MD.
Topical Panel 13 on the History of Psychotherapy, featuring Rollo R May, PhD, Carl R Rogers, PhD, Thomas S Szasz, MD, and Carl A Whitaker, MD.
Moderated by Ann Wright-Edwards, MS.
Topical Panel 14 on Therapeutic Uses of Humor, featuring Murray Bowen, MD, Albert Ellis, PhD, Robert L Goulding, MD, and Ronald D Laing, MD.
Moderated by John C Racy, MD.
Topical Panel 15 on Brief versus Long-Term Therapy, featuring Mary M Goulding, MSW, Judd Marmor, MD, James F Masterson, MD, and Paul Watzlawick, PhD.
Moderated by Aaron H Canter, PhD.
Topical Panel 16 on Sexuality, featuring Bruno Bettelheim, PhD, Albert Ellis, PhD, Ronald D Laing, MD, and Judd Marmor, MD.
Moderated by William McLeod, MD.
Description:
With discussant Carl R Rogers, PhD. Moderated by F Theodore Reid, Jr, MD.
Educational Objectives:
To describe three ways of evoking stories in therapy.
To name two purposes served by storytelling.
An information processing model designed to clarify the biased and constricted thinking in depression will be described. The practical applications of the model use principles of guided discovery and collaborative empiricism. There will be a demonstration of specific strategies applied to dysfunctional cognitions and beliefs. A blending of cognitive and behavioral techniques are used for in vivo exercises.