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• Archive: Topic Areas:WorkshopCategory:Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2006Faculty:Stephen Gilligan, PhDDuration:2:37:46Format:Audio OnlyOriginal 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.