Imago is couple's therapy that posits that all healing is relational. The core couples issue is ruptured connection, replicating the rupture of connection in childhood. The rupture and the defenses against it influence marital choice and the quality of the marital relationship. The core therapeutic challenge is to help couples restore and maintain connection. To that end, Imago therapists facilitate couples to reconnect using a specific dialogical process, that creates emotional safety, in which couples can help heal each other and grow toward wholeness.
Dr. Glasser has moved away from the DSM-IV and the medical model. He does not believe that any of the mental illnesses diagnosed in the DSM-IV actually exist because none of them are associated with pathology in the brain. By using Choice Theory he has moved from the medical school model to the public health model to show how counselors can deliver mental health more effectively than psychiatrists are doing now and at a fraction of what we are now spending.
The BASIC I. D. as a template for assessment and therapy will be outlined, as well as methods unique to Multimodal Therapy such as Bridging and Tracking procedures. Many practitioners of psychotherapy make costly mistakes. These will be discussed in detail with a view to enhancing the clinical effectiveness of the participants.
Imago is couple's therapy that posits that all healing is relational. The core couples issue is ruptured connection, replicating the rupture of connection in childhood. The rupture and the defenses against it influence marital choice and the quality of the marital relationship. The core therapeutic challenge is to help couples restore and maintain connection. To that end, Imago therapists facilitate couples to reconnect using a specific dialogical process, which creates emotional safety, in which couples can help heal each other and grow toward wholeness.
Dr. Szasz will compare and contrast the psychiatric and social scene in the late 1950's when he wrote The Myth of Menta/Illness, with the present psychiatric and social scenes. He will speculate about the impact of that book on psychiatric and psychotherapeutic thought and practice. Active audience participation is encouraged.
Using fantasy, remembrances of things past, the present, and how to aim toward and get in the future, every attendee will participate as leader and client in group exercises.
Supervision Panel 01 from the Evolution of Psychotherapy 2005
Featuring James Masterson, MD; Salvador Minuchin, MD; and Jeffrey Zeig, PhD
Moderated by Camillo Loriedo, MD
Supervision Panel 02 from the Evolution of Psychotherapy 2005
Featuring David Barlow, PhD; Francine Shapiro, PhD; and Michael White, BASW
Moderated by Daniel Eckstein, PHD
Supervision Panel 03 from the Evolution of Psychotherapy 2005
Featuring James Hillman, PhD; Arnold Lazarus, PhD; and Scott Miller, PhD
Moderated by Ellyn Bader, PhD
Supervision Panel 04 from the Evolution of Psychotherapy 2005
Featuring William Glasser, MD; Marsha Linehan, PhD; and Michele Weiner-Davis, MSW
Moderated by Bernahrd Trenkle, Dipl. Psych