EP90 Workshop 04 - Fostering Depth in Client Self-Exploration - James F.T. Bugental, PhD
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Interviewing | Psychotherapy | Therapist Development | Self-Relations
- Categories:
- Evolution of Psychotherapy | Evolution of Psychotherapy 1990
- Faculty:
- James Bugental, PhD
- Course Levels:
- Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
- Duration:
- 2:31:28
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 12, 1990
- License:
- Never Expires.
Description
Description: This session offers a thoughtful re-examination of what psychotherapy is and where real change comes from. It explores therapy as a process of helping people reconnect with their own capacity for growth, intention, and meaning-making. Through clear teaching and live demonstrations, the workshop shows how presence, emotional honesty, and careful attention to resistance can open the way for deeper self-understanding. The focus is on expanding a person’s sense of agency and aliveness in their own life.
Syllabus Description: It is doubtful any lasting life-changes will result unless clients are able to access their own inner worlds with unusual depth. This workshop - using direct instruction, specific suggestions, and live demonstrations - teaches ways of working for rich inner discovery.
Educational Objectives:
- To argue for the necessity of transferring guidance of interview content to the client and to expand on the theoretical implications of doing so.
- To teach the therapist processes that can be used to effect this transfer and how to monitor and modulate it.
*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*
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James Bugental, PhD, was one of the predominant theorists and advocates of the Existential-Humanistic Therapy movement. He received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1948, was named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 1955, and was the first recipient of the APA's Division of Humanistic Psychology's Rollo May Award. James devoted himself to teaching and writing; he was also an Emeritus Professor, Saybrook Institute, and an Emeritus Clinical Lecturer (formerly Associate Clinical Professor), Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University Medical School. In 1987, he was the recipient of the first annual Rollo May Award of the Mentor Society "for contributions to the literary pursuit," and in 1986, he received a certificate "in recognition of the distinguished contribution to the discipline of Clinical Psychology" from the Division of Clinical Psychology, American Psychological Association. He was a past president of the Association for Humanisitic Psychology and served on the editorial boards of eight professional journals. Bugental has written 150 articles, reviews, comments, and chapters in books edited by others.