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- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Psychotherapy | Directive Therapy | Brief Therapy | Family Therapy
- Categories:
- Evolution of Psychotherapy | Evolution of Psychotherapy 1990 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Jay Haley, MA
- Duration:
- 2 Hours 5 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 14, 1990
- Short Description:
- This workshop spotlights directive therapy—an action-driven approach where therapists take an active role in guiding change. Instead of passively listening, practitioners assign tasks, offer strategic advice, and use creative interventions like ordeals to spark progress. With real-life cases ranging from relationship struggles to bulimia and sexual masochism, the session shows how targeted directives lead to quick, meaningful results. Topics include shifting dynamics in couples therapy, motivating resistant clients, and making brief therapy both effective and impactful—all while maintaining clear boundaries and professional focus.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Conversation Hours | Psychotherapy | Brief Therapy | Directive Therapy | Paradox | Reframing | Resistance | Systems Theory | Constructivism
- Categories:
- Evolution of Psychotherapy | Evolution of Psychotherapy 1995 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Paul Watzlawick, PhD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 56:48
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 15, 1995
- Short Description:
- This conversation explores the therapeutic power of stories, metaphors, and analogies to foster understanding and change. Topics include paradoxical techniques—like a therapist claiming ineffectiveness to motivate a client—and the role of nonlinear causality and circular feedback in client dynamics. The session also examines working with eating disorders, engaging client worldviews (including religious beliefs), and reframing existential fears within diverse cultural contexts.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Dialogues | Psychotherapy | Directive Therapy | Ethical Practice | Therapeutic Process
- Categories:
- Evolution of Psychotherapy | Evolution of Psychotherapy 1995 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Jay Haley, MA | Thomas Szasz, MD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 56:54
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 16, 1995
- Short Description:
- Defining change in therapy proves complex, with debate over whether it should be therapist-guided or client-directed. Topics include the role of coercion, the influence of state licensing, and the contrast between educational and therapeutic models. The discussion highlights how these issues impact clinical practice and professional identity. Moderated by Brent Geary.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Psychotherapy | Therapist Development | Brief Therapy | Children and Adolescent Therapy | Directive Therapy | Family Therapy | Reframing | Systems Theory | Ericksonian Hypnosis and Therapy Techniques
- Categories:
- Evolution of Psychotherapy | Evolution of Psychotherapy 1995 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Paul Watzlawick, PhD
- Duration:
- 2 Hours 36 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 13, 1995
- Short Description:
- This workshop explores how rigid, self-reinforcing behavioral patterns—“games without end”—can be disrupted through meta-level interventions. Drawing on Bateson’s systems theory and Erickson’s clinical methods, the discussion covers strategies like benevolent sabotage, paradox, and behavior prescriptions that shift entrenched dynamics. Practical examples include work with perfectionism, sexual disconnection, and resistant teens. The role of language, suggestion, and therapeutic relationship are central themes throughout.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Hypnotherapy | Invited Addresses | Language of Hypnosis | Brief Therapy | Communication | Constructive Narrative | Directive Therapy | Systems Theory | Therapeutic Relationship
- Categories:
- Erickson Congress | Erickson Congress 1983 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Paul Watzlawick, PhD
- Duration:
- 44:12
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 03, 1983
- Short Description:
- Address at the International Congress on Ericksonian approaches to hypnosis and psychotherapy which emphasized the therapeutic potential of language structure over content. Watzlawick critiqued traditional psychotherapy's reliance on reason and linear causality, advocating for techniques like learning the patient's language, avoiding negations, and using metaphors and stories. He also highlighted the importance of non-verbal communication and the right hemisphere's role in therapy. He also discussed the paradoxical nature of reality and the therapeutic use of paradox, suggesting that our perception of reality is more a language game than an objective truth.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price