Invited Address 12 - Part 2 - Existential Therapy and the Future, featuring Rollo R May, PhD.
With discussant Bruno Bettelheim, PhD.
Moderated by F Theodore Reid, Jr, MD.
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.
Invited Address Session 12 - Part 1 - Rogers, Kohut, and Erickson: A Personal Perspective on Some Similarities and Differences featuring Carl Rogers, PhD, and Ruth C Sanford, MA.
With discussant Miriam Polster, PhD.
Moderated by F Theodore Reid, Jr, MD.