Personal identity is a crucial guide to the way people live their lives. Dr. Polster will examine how therapy may accentuate and empower familiar identities and how to resuscitate those which are dimmed. Conceptual elaboration will be joined with live therapy sessions, showing how concepts connect with therapeutic work.
Therapy re-opens stuck people to fluidity. By faithfully connecting small but inexorable sequences of words and actions, an impelling force is created for movement into whatever feels naturally next. Through live therapeutic sessions, Dr. Polster will show how this process engenders therapeutic vitality and openness to personal fluidity.
BT12 Conversation Hour 04 - Key Changes in Perspective over a 70-Year Career - Erving Polster, PhD
Educational Objectives:
Learn the philosophies of various practitioners and theorists.
BT12 Dialogue 08 - Social Factors in Depression - Erving Polster, PhD, Michael Yapko, PhD
Educational Objectives:
Given a topic, describe the differing approaches to psychotherapy, and identify the strengths and weaknesses of each approach.
Gestalt therapy and Ericksonian hypnotherapy are experiential methods of change. In combination they can be synergistic. Psychotherapy is best when clients have first-hand experience of an alive therapeutic process. Such dynamic empowering experiences pave the way for dynamic understandings. Drs. Polster and Zeig will engage with each other and participants to examine commonalities and differences in their work in this engaging all-day workshop.
Gestalt therapy and Ericksonian hypnotherapy are experiential methods of change. In combination they can be synergistic. Psychotherapy is best when clients have first-hand experience of an alive therapeutic process. Such dynamic empowering experiences pave the way for dynamic understandings. Drs. Polster and Zeig will engage with each other and participants to examine commonalities and differences in their work in this engaging all-day workshop.