Workshops di Psicoterapia Integrativa

This 3-day workshop will provide the opportunity to learn and experience the theory and methods of a psychotherapy that integrates the client’s affect, cognition, physiology, and behavior. There will be a focus on the centrality of the therapeutic relationship. Topics that may be taught, demonstrated and discussed include: the relational methods of inquiry, attunement and involvement; empathy and presence; body psychotherapy; and the treatment of internal criticism and shame. Participants may bring cases from their own clinical practice for consultation. Dr Erskine will explain and elaborate on the concepts in Beyond-Empathy: A Therapy of Contact–in-Relationship (Brunner/Mazel, 1999) and Integrative Psychotherapy: The Art and Science of Relationship, (2003,Thomson/Wasdsworth:Brooks/Cole). Please view the web site: www.IntegrativePsychotherapy.com

This workshop is for mental health professionals who want to apply theory in clinical practice and to enhance their effectiveness through identifying aspects of contact interruption, life script, and countertransferenc

Richard G. Erskine, Ph.D., Training Director at the Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy, is a clinical psychologist with four decades of experience in the clinical practice and teaching of psychotherapy. He has specialized in the treatment of severely disturbed children, run a therapeutic community in a maximum security prison, and conducted a psychotherapy practice specializing in the treatment of obsession, dissociation, and schizoid processes. In 1972, as a professor at the University of Illinois, Dr. Erskine developed the initial concepts of Integrative Psychotherapy. By 1976 he established the Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy in New York City and each year teaches the theory and methods in several other countries and at other training facilities around the world. He is the author of five books and numerous articles on the practice of psychotherapy.