The workshop will center on a role-played demonstration of family therapy using members of the audience. There will be an enactment of the telephone plea from the new patient to the therapist. Included will be structuring the blind date appointment between the two paranoids when the therapist is one of them. History taking and the war for the family "I" position will be demonstrated. Also discussed will be expanding the anxiety and establishing the generation gap.
This workshop will demonstrate how to live in a family without being caught up in the family's pathological system. Participants will learn an eight-step program for dealing successfully with their own family's Games, and thereby learn to live more happily and intimately within their family structures. Therapy demonstration plus practice exercises.
Clinical Presentation 03 from the Evolution of Psychotherapy 1990 - The Ultradian Healing Response: Mind-Body Healing in Every Day Life, featuring Ernest Rossi, PhD.
Educational Objectives:
Given a topic, to become aware of the differing approaches to psychotherapy, and to identify the strengths and weaknesses in each approach.
To learn philosophies of various practitioners and theorists.
A presentation of the influence upon therapy, particularly Strategic Therapy of Zen Buddhism. Similarities between therapeutic change and spiritual enlightenment are discussed in terms of the relationship between Master and trainee and therapist and client. The use of directives, of riddles, of absurd tasks, and the types of single interventions and paradoxical procedures are discussed. Examples of cases and Zen stories are compared. Zen, systems theory, and Erickson's strategic therapy are brought together.
Dialogue 01 from the Evolution of Psychotherapy - Working with the Mind / Working with the Body, featuring William Glasser, MD, and Alexander Lowen, MD.
Moderated by Carol Lankton, MA.
Dialogue 03 from the Evolution of Psychotherapy 1990 - The Legacy of Gregory Bateson, featuring Mara Selvini Palazzoli, MD, and Paul Watzlawick, PhD.
Moderated by Stephen Gilligan, PhD.
Clinical Presentation 03 from the Evolution of Psychotherapy 1990 - The Ultradian Healing Response: Mind-Body Healing in Every Day Life, featuring Ernest Rossi, PhD.