Presentation

This presentation’s focus is on enhancing one’s own experiences of aging, illness, and loss and to regard these experiences as an essential part of being a fully human and authentic therapist.

The renowned child and adolescent therapist Dr. Violet Oaklander posited that two common reasons for young people entering therapy are a) difficulty with using one or more contact skills and b) low self-esteem.

My presentation is about my experience as a Gestalt therapist working with adolescents and people who use drugs on the street from Venice to the Bronx.

Perspectives of a clinician, the leader of a Gestalt institute and a person in Ukraine.

Third-Person Storytelling, or the repetitive telling of one’s story as if it were being witnessed from the outside, is a therapeutic method that allows individuals to deeply engage with and express the complexities of their personal experiences while simultaneously being able to have greater emotional distance from them.

How the concepts of “parallel process,” “field forces,” and “reversed roles” are implemented in my supervisory work.

Today, reference to philosophical aesthetics seems to be taking on an increasingly important role in the theoretical apparatus of Gestalt therapy, including as a contribution to the development of a specific psychopathology or theorization of the therapeutic encounter.

The focus of this workshop will be on writing about the impact of relational therapeutic work on the therapist.

Field 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 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.

Among the many DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) particularities, social class is rarely mentioned, yet it is an essential aspect of who we are in every interaction, including as therapists, and who each client is when they come to therapy seeking relief from their suffering.

In this workshop, I want to explore this very radical notion both theoretically and experientially. I want to highlight both the beauty that we as human beings can bring to the world, and the destructiveness and environmental impact of our sense that the world is our artistic canvas to be remade at will.