- Topic Areas:
- Workshop
- Category:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2006
- Faculty:
- Stephen Gilligan, PhD
- Duration:
- 2:37:46
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date :
- Dec 09, 2006
Description
Description:
A key idea in Milton Erickson’s work was that a person’s problematic experiences and behaviors can be skillfully accepted and utilized as the basis for therapeutic change. Self-relations psychotherapy develops this idea further, emphasizing symptoms as indicating the death of an old identity and the impending birth of a new identity. Thus, we don’t try to “get rid of” depression, anxiety, or “acting out/acting in” expressions, but instead invite them into a human relationship of “sponsorship”, where their healing and helpful nature may be realized. We will see how a therapist can generate a ritual space where symptoms and other disturbing experiences can be “midwifed” into new identities.
Educational Objectives:
- To name the basic principles and methods of self-relations psychotherapy.
- To describe how these methods might be used to transform symptoms into positive solutions and resources.
*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*
