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.
Because of the weight of clients difficulties, the employment of lighter areas of experience is often indicated, both for cathartic relief as well as for providing closure. The session will focus on joy, humor, tenderness.
The Ericksonian approach rests on the use of effective direct and indirect technique to access inherent resources and promote patient-based change. Lecture, demonstration, group exercise.
I will present some views on my own development as a gestalt therapist, showing through demonstrations and discussion how simple human engagement-softness, humor, focused attention and respect for the ordinary-can, in concert with techniques, generate profound personal experience.
Presented will be a teaching tape on the values and perils of therapist-oriented (undifferentiated) eclecticism. The therapist, whether he likes it or not, is a model for the family. An unsure therapist is a poor model when a well defined family is a goal.
All audience members will have an opportunity to assess their own readiness to resolve a basic personal issue via the accessing experience of deep trance phenomena.
Workshop 30 - Aspects of Individualization, featuring Dieter Baumann.
A special workshop presentation from Dieter Baumann at the 1985 Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference.
Workshop 31 - A Feminist Perspective on Psychotherapy, featuring Sophie Freud.
A special workshop presentation from Sophie Freud at the 1985 Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference.