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SUMMARY:Field Perspective in Gestalt Therapy and Contemporary Clinical Issues
DESCRIPTION:Presenters: Gianni Francesetti\, Michela Gecele\, and Jan Roubal \nDescription: \nField perspective is receiving a growing interest in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis\, and there are many different ways to understand it. In this meeting\, we will share our understanding of field theory in our practice\, and how the therapeutic process is a field phenomenon. In this perspective\, the change is not produced by an intervention of the therapist on the client\, nor by a process of collaboration between therapist and client in order to co-create the change. The process of change is rather made by the forces already active in the field and the therapist modulates their presence in order for transformations to happen. We will question why there is now an increasing interest in field perspective in clinical work and how it is related to the changes in contemporary clinical suffering. Starting from this background\, we will discuss what therapy should focus on today and which kind of support is needed in our work. \n  \n \nBiographies: \nGianni Francesetti\, MD\, psychiatrist and Gestalt therapist\, is an adjunct professor of phenomenological and existential approach in the Department of Psychology\, University of Torino (Italy)\, and an international trainer and supervisor\, who has published widely on psychotherapy and psychopathology. He is the co-director of the IPsiG – International Institute for Gestalt Therapy and Psychopathology (www.ipsig.it) and of the Turin School of Psychopathology. He is the president of Poiesis – Gestalt Therapy Clinical Centre of Torino and the past president of the European Association for Gestalt Therapy (EAGT) and of the Italian Federation of Psychotherapy Associations (FIAP) as well as the co-founder of IG-FEST. His last two books are Phenomenological-Gestalt Psychopathology: A Light Introduction (l’Exprimerie\, Bordeaux\, 2022) and (co-edited with T. Griffero) Psicopatologia e Atmosfere. Prima del soggetto e del mondo (Fioriti\, 2022; first English edition\, Psychopathology and Atmospheres. Neither Inside nor Outside\, Cambridge Scholars Publishing\, 2019). He is the co-director of the book series Prospettive psicopatologiche e psicoterapia della Gestalt (Fioriti) and of Field Perspectives and Clinical Practice: Gestalt Therapy Series Books (Routledge). \nMichela Gecele\, MD\, a psychiatrist and Gestalt therapist\, trained in cultural anthropology. An international trainer and supervisor\, she has published books\, articles\, and chapters on themes of psychotherapy and psychopathology\, exploring clinical suffering from a phenomenological and Gestalt therapy viewpoint. Another clinical and research topic is that of cultural and intercultural issues (risks\, opportunities\, trauma and post-trauma\, language\, communication\, and connections between social and cultural context and forms of illness and care). She has been working for 27 years in public mental health services and she has coordinated\, in Turin\, a psychological and psychiatric service for immigrants. She is the supervisor of public mental health services and of programs for immigrants. She is also a former member of the Human Rights & Social Responsibility (HR&SR) Committee of the European Association for Gestalt Therapy (EAGT). She is the co-director of the IPsiG – International Institute for Gestalt Therapy and Psychopathology (www.ipsig.it) and of the Turin School of Psychopathology as well as the co-founder of IG-FEST. She is the co-director of the book series Prospettive psicopatologiche e psicoterapia della Gestalt (Fioriti) and of Field Perspectives and Clinical Practice: Gestalt Therapy Series Books (Routledge). She has also published fiction and educational books. \nJan Roubal\, MD\, PhD\, is an associate professor at Masaryk University in Brno\, Czech Republic\, where he also works in the Center for Psychotherapy Research. He works as a psychotherapist and psychiatrist. He founded the Training in Psychotherapy Integration and the training Gestalt Studia in the Czech Republic\, and he also works as a psychotherapy trainer and supervisor internationally. He co-edited the books Current Psychotherapy\, Gestalt Therapy in Clinical Practice: From Psychopathology to the Aesthetics of Contact\, and Towards a Research Tradition in Gestalt Therapy. Recently\, he published the book Don’t Get in the Way of Hope: A Therapist’s Guide Through the Depressive Field. He is a co-founder of IG-FEST. He is a co-director of the Turin School of Psychopathology and of the book series Field Perspectives and Clinical Practice: Gestalt Therapy Series Books (Routledge).
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SUMMARY:Adolescence\, Anger\, and the Arts
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Jon Blend \nDescription: \nAdolescent anger \nIn adolescence\, anger is associated with particular functional aspects (McConville\, 1995). It protects young teenagers who lack the capacity to reconcile contradictory attitudes and beliefs\, which may otherwise leave them feeling overwhelmed. This occurs during a time of much vulnerability\, while the massive project of rewiring neural pathways takes place within teenage brains. To avoid implosion under the strain\, young adolescents tend to skew their version of reality to support their fragile selves. Through projecting inner conflicts onto the wider field of family\, friends\, or community\, troublesome internal conflicts are kept at bay. \nAdolescent anger enables proto separation at the disembedding stage \nThe behavior of young adolescents aims to create a boundary between them and adults; teenagers may provoke fights with adults to feel powerful while secretly feeling insecure. Anger and projection serve to keep guilt and shame at bay – the developing teenage brain as yet cannot handle personal inconsistency and isn’t ready to respond empathically. Instead\, the youngster first needs to attend to their own needs despite the risk of seeming selfish. Some psychologists\, such as Michael Gurian\, question the imperative for teenage rebellion. Many psychotherapists\, however\, including McConville\, Oaklander\, and Winnicott\, consider such rebellion a necessary part of the process of growth and development. Battles fought at the boundary between self and other keep the pressure off the still fragile\, internal self\, though the teenager’s experience of this divide\, especially in the middle “interiority” stage\, can also be painful and lonely. \nOther functional aspects of anger in adolescence \nAnger also provides a sense of personal solidity for adolescents while supplying propulsion for them to “blast off” on their own. This allows an experience of brief separation from parents while showing peers and others that they are okay. Otherwise\, adolescents risk remaining confluent with their parents and unable to leave the family. Anger becomes a creative adjustment\, driving adolescence forward as the young person begins to consolidate their renewed self (ibid). This process “shakes up the herd” and can be found variously across the animal kingdom. \nDuring this presentation: \nWe will examine some of the arts-led media that adolescents turn to for support during this amazing period of accelerated growth and change. These include iconic songs across eras\, poetry writing\, fashion\, and “the language of cool.” How might these support a process of development? Clinical vignettes from therapy illustrate moments of adolescent “life in the fast lane” as well as relational experiences of “doldrums.” Quests for identity\, autonomy\, morality\, and intimacy form part of this heady journey – how does anger expression and containment encourage or impede our completion of gestalts – our flow? \nWorking in breakout rooms\, participants may wish to explore present awareness by assembling their own cut-and-paste lyric or poem using phrases gathered from newspapers or magazines – a quirky method for inspiration during writer’s block adopted by Bowie\, Dylan\, Lennon\, Radiohead\, and Swift. \nAlternatively\, the group may wish to experiment with a simplified version of violinist Helen Bonny’s transformational Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) method\, exploring with awareness emergent feelings\, images\, and memories while relaxing to carefully tailored musical extracts. How might this affect our acknowledgement of the ebb and flow of adolescent processes within us? \nBiography: \nJon Blend\, MA\, is British\, of Austro-Russian heritage. He is a UKCP and ECP registered Gestalt psychotherapist\, child psychotherapist\, clinical supervisor\, musician\, and Playback Theatre performer (www.londonplayback.com). He maintains a psychotherapy practice in London seeing adults\, children\, and supervisees. \nJon is a faculty member of the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education and an approved trainer with the Violet Solomon Oaklander Foundation. Since 2002\, he has taught the Oaklander model of projective arts therapy to psychotherapists and other professionals. His career in adult and child mental health began 40 years ago\, as a social worker in various hospital and community-based settings. \nJon has delivered Gestalt training workshops and presentations to institutes and organizations in Bulgaria\, Croatia\, Georgia\, Poland\, Romania\, the USA\, and the UK. His interests include animal-assisted therapies\, interfaith working\, and transcultural and intergenerational dialogue. For nine articles and training information\, visit https://www.gacp.co.uk.
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