Corsi di formazione in Psicoterapia Integrativa

Integrative Psychotherapy Training Program for Experienced Therapists and Counsellors

Richard Erskine, Ph.D.
Sponsored by the Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy.

2-year program: February 2009 - December 2010
Manchester, England

This two year training program will provide the fundamental theory course required for certification as an Integrative Psychotherapist by the Training and Standards Commission of the International Integrative Psychotherapy Association.  It will provide 108 hours of training that will include lectures on the theory and methods of Integrative Psychotherapy, group discussion of the theory and assigned readings and the presentation of participant's clinical cases for consultation.  The course is designed to provide an intellectually rich understanding of the inter-related theories of motivation, personality, and method. 

Concepts that will be covered in the first year of this fundamentals course are:  the theory of motivation,the self-in-relationship system, contact and contact-interruption, script formation and the script system, a developmental perspective, three models of ego state therapy, transference and transactions, intrapsychic functions and behavioural change, and the therapeutic use of relational-needs.  A theory of methods will be presented which emphasises the centrality of a contactual therapeutic relationship.  The focus will be on the integration of affective, cognitive, behavioural and physiological aspects of psychotherapy. 

The teaching in the second year will include the psychotherapy of obsessing, habitual worrying and fantasising; the treatment of dissociation and the schizoid process; the psychotherapy of unconscious conclusions and physiological survival reactions; and the methods useful in the treatment of psychological regression, intrapsychic conflict and interjections.  Participants will be expected to discuss cases from their own practice for supervision.  This training program is for the experienced psychotherapist who wants to enhance his or her therapeutic effectiveness by becoming skilful in the practice of Integrative Psychotherapy. 

The course will be sponsored by the Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy, New York City and the Manchester Psychotherapy Training Institute in co-operation with the International Integrative Psychotherapy Association.

Leading to certification as a Integrative psychotherapist accredited by the International Association of Integrative psychotherapy.

This course will also carry a diploma from the Manchester Institute and will count towards CPD credits 

Contact: For Information and to reserve a place on this workshop contact
The Manchester Institute For Psychotherapy
Tele: 0161 862 9456 or fax: 0161 881 8225
email: bob@mcpt.co.uk  
www.mcpt.co.uk