Panel 06 - Patient / Therapist Relationship
Featuring James F.T. Bugental, Ph.D.; Arnold A. Lazarus, Ph.D.; Miriam Polster, Ph.D.; and Lenore Walker, Ed.D.
Moderated by W Michael Munion, MA.
The client's task is to try to be open to his/her inner experiencing, disclosing it to the therapist. A client discovers difficulties in doing so, thus disclosing the resistances which are isomorphic with the client's difficulties in life more generally. The therapist's task is to teach and monitor this process.
Human experience and human action center in and derive from human subjectivity. Our preoccupation with objectivity results displaces identity from inner living to external. Life-changing psychotherapy requires centered awareness and self-direction. Three therapeutic elements are prime: Full presence, major commitment, and exploring client's self-and-world constructs.
Therapists learning depth psychotherapy (extending several years) make a greater personal commitment than in other forms of therapy. Supervision of this work requires attention to the therapist's subjective experience as well as to procedures and conceptual perspectives. This workshop will include direct teaching, unrehearsed demonstration with an actual supervisee, and candid feedback from supervisee and supervisor.
Topical Panel 08 from the Evolution of Psychotherapy 1990 - Resistance
Featuring James FT Bugental, PhD; William Glasser, MD; Donald Meichenbaum, PhD; and Erving Polster, PhD.
Moderated by Ruth McClendon, MSW.
Dialogue 07 from the Evolution of Psychotherapy 1990 - How Does Therapy Cure? featuring James FT Bugental, PhD, and Mary Goulding, MSW.
Moderated by W Michael Munion, MA.
Topical Panel 05 from the Evolution of Psychotherapy 1990 - Training Psychotherapists
Featuring James FT Bugental, PhD; Arnold Lazarus, PhD; Salvador Minuchin, MD; and Miriam Polster, PhD.
Moderated by Ellyn Bader, PhD.
Educational Objectives:
To learn interview techniques for reducing client resistances to being genuinely engaged with the therapeutic work and to be able to facilitate client inner exploration
To understand the division of responsibility in which the client leads content and the therapist modulates process
Bugental (1990) provides two demonstrations. First, Bugental works with Molly, an associate who is familiar with this approach at an advanced level. Next he works with a naïve client, demonstrating what therapy might look like on the first visit. After each session, Bugental and his client reflect upon his methods.
Topical Panel 01 from the Evolution of Psychotherapy 1990 - Essential Aspects of Psychotherapy.
Featuring James FT Bugental, PhD; Albert Ellis, PhD; Mary Goulding, MSW; and Carl Whitaker, MD.
Moderated by Camillo Loriedo, MD.