This workshop addresses everything from cruelty in families, to terrorism in politics and the abuse of psychopharmacology and managed care. It offers a higher order resolution method to all levels of human conflict and a model of human dignity.
In this workshop, attendees will learn how to recognize couple symptoms as shared or separate-track trances and it will be demonstrated that symptom inductions in couples are something we can observe. Dr. Ritterman will teach, through entrancing role plays, methods to counter destructive couples suggestions with beneficial hypnotherapeutic counter-inductions. She will focus on the use of synchronicity and reciprocity in couples development. Attendees will gain an understanding of trance and hypnotic happenings in couples and receive supervisory input for innovative ways to help couples heal each other and love again.
To describe the primary shifts in thinking that the therapist requests of the OCD patient. To list three pattern-interruption techniques that can modify a patient's relationship with OCD.
To describe how a therapeutic trance may be developed from a person's natural processes and basic identity patterns. To describe how a therapeutic trance may be used to transform problematic patterns into helpful patterns.
To list two key questions to identify existing and potential client resources when working with multi-problem clients.
To list two ways to impart feeling of competency in multi-problem patients.
To list three psychological experiences that facilitate gene expression and brain plasticity. To describe how to engage the creative dynamics of dream work in Ericksonian psychotherapy.
To describe how to identify and sort beliefs at the root of inner conflict. To describe a method for reframing conflicting beliefs in order to bring about new possibilities for resolution.
From Freud to Erickson to the current practice of psychotherapy, the nature of human problems has remained the same. What has changed is which problems we consider are within the realm of psychotherapy to elucidate. When Erickson introduced the concept of directive therapy, the field changed, not only in terms of how to do therapy, but also in terms of what are the issues a therapist must address. Is there a place for the concept of evil, for the practice of justice, and for the spiritual realm in therapy? What do we know today that we didn't know a hundred years ago? How can we preserve the existence of the therapist as humanist, social activist and systemic thinker?