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- Topic Areas:
- Invited Addresses | Psychotherapy | Therapist Development
- Categories:
- Evolution of Psychotherapy | Evolution of Psychotherapy 1995 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Paul Watzlawick, PhD | James F. Masterson, MD
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 28 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 16, 1995
- Short Description:
- Watzlawick challenges the assumption that insight into the past is the key to change. He explores how insight can sometimes reinforce dysfunction rather than resolve it. Drawing from Ericksonian methods and constructivist theory, he presents alternatives such as reframing, behavior prescriptions, and planned chance events. The address offers a compelling look at how therapists can shift client realities by speaking their language and disrupting unhelpful patterns in the present.
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- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Topical Panels | Psychotherapy | History of Psychotherapy | Meditation, Spirituality and Yoga
- Categories:
- Evolution of Psychotherapy | Evolution of Psychotherapy 1995 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Eugene Gendlin, PhD | Thomas Szasz, MD | Paul Watzlawick, PhD | Irvin Yalom, PhD
- Duration:
- 1 Hour
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 15, 1995
- Short Description:
- This panel explores the philosophical foundations of psychotherapy, from existentialism to Eastern traditions. Speakers reflect on how philosophy informs clinical thinking, with discussions on freeing clients from cultural constraints, resisting the over-medicalization of therapy, and using constructivist and existential lenses to deepen practice. Topics include Nietzsche’s influence, the ethics of managed care, and the relevance of quantum and Eastern philosophies in understanding the self. Moderated by Carol Kershaw, EdD.
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- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Dialogues | Psychotherapy | Systems Theory | Ethical Practice
- Categories:
- Evolution of Psychotherapy | Evolution of Psychotherapy 1990 | Pioneers in Couples and Family Therapy
- Faculty:
- Mara Selvini Palazzoli, MD | Paul Watzlawick, PhD
- Duration:
- 59 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 12, 1990
- Short Description:
- This discussion explores Gregory Bateson's influence on psychotherapy, focusing on systemic thinking and the ethics of therapeutic influence. Speakers reflect on his contributions—like symmetry, complementarity, and learning patterns—and how these ideas inform practices such as positive connotation and family rituals. The conversation also touches on applying Bateson’s insights to contemporary work with schizophrenia and relational dynamics. Moderated by Stephen Gilligan, PhD.
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- $15.00 - Base Price
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- 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