The distinguishing elements of a psychotherapy conducted from an existential orientation and holding humanistic values. Topics briefly dealt with include centering on process rather than content; authenticity of encounter; commitment; presence; concern; the subjective; intentionality vs. causality; and developing depth of inquiry. Didactic presentations, questions and discussion, and demonstrations.
Like lock and key, illness and treatment are matching, symmetrical terms. Because the term "mental illness" is misleading, I prefer to avoid the term "psychotherapy," which refers (or ought to refer) to a particular kind(s) of dialogue, discourse, or situation of personal influence.
Edited video of thirty-five hours of family therapy conducted along with co-therapist, David Keith. Psychotic episode occurred in the father and three sibs but not in the mother.
New developments will be presented in the theory and technique of strategic therapy with individuals, families, and couples, including prescribing the metaphor and the use of confusional techniques with families. Concepts will be illustrated with videotaped examples.
Topical Panel 06 on Training Psychotherapists Part 1, featuring Robert L Goulding, MD, Arnold A Lazarus, PhD, Erving Polster, PhD, and Lewis R Wolberg, MD.
Moderated by Sharon Cottor, MSW.
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Topical Panel 07 on Psychotherapy and Social Issues, featuring Ronald D Laing, MD, Judd Marmor, MD, Paul Watzlawick, PhD, and Joseph Wolpe, MD.
Moderated by Aaron H Canter, PhD.
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Topical Panel 08 on the Language of Human Facilitation, featuring Erving Polster, PhD, Miriam Polster, PhD, Carl R Rogers, PhD, and Ernest L Rossi, PhD.
Moderated by Aaron H Canter, PhD.
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Educational Objectives:
To know how family systems therapy helps therapists to construct effective interventions
To help psychotherapists keep an open mind to science
To help psychotherapists assist patients to form clear choices in their interactions
Invited Address Session 3 - Part 2 - My Many Voices: Personal Perspectives on Family Therapy featuring Salvador Minuchin, MD.
With discussant Zerka Moreno.
Moderated by Sharon Cottor, MSW.
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