Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy

Integrative Psychotherapy Books

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INTEGRATIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY IN ACTION

by Richard G. Erskine and Janet P.Moursund

CONTENTS

  1. Introduction
  2. Conrad: Regression and Redecision
  3. Chris: Discovering a Self-Created Parent
  4. Ben: Therapy with the Parent Ego State
  5. Frankie The Absent Father
  6. Robert: Challenging a Cultural Script
  7. Emily: From Dream to Script
  8. Sarah: The Emerging Plan
  9. Bill: Replacing a Destructive Introject
  10. Glenda: The Empty House
  11. Charles: A Study In Contact
  12. Stephanie and Grat: Two "I Can't Win" Scripts
  13. Ian: Putting it all Together

ABOUT THE BOOK

Integrative Psychotherapy's guiding principle is that the decisions made and beliefs formed during one's formative years continue to shape and influence one's perceptions, feelings and behaviors throughout life. Erskine and Moursund, both experienced psychotherapists, begin their discussion of integrative psychotherapy with a masterful theoretical overview which integrates diverse concepts from various therapy techniques such as psychoanalysis, client-centered therapy, transactional analysis, behavioral therapy and Gestalt therapy. The authors then use transcripts of actual therapy sessions with explanatory comments inserted to allow the reader to understand both the theory and its application in therapy, and also to capture some of the elusive essence of the ongoing therapy interview. Unique in its attention to detail as well as to the therapist's own decision making process and written in a highly readable style, advanced students and therapists will find this volume essential and absorbing reading.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Richard Erskine, Ph.D. is training director of the Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy in New fork City where he conducts a postgraduate psychotherapy training program and continuing education courses for mental health practitioners. He is a faculty member of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy and is an institute instructor and full member of several professional organizations including the. American Group Psychotherapy Association and the American Psychological Association. He Is certified to practice clinically and teach by the Transactional Analysis Association which, in 1982, conferred upon him the Eric Berne Scientific Award for advances in the theory of transactional analysis. He has taught at several universities, including the University of Illinois where he taught child and family therapy. Author of Theories and Methods of an Integrative Transactional Analysis and numerous articles on psychotherapy theory and clinical practice, Dr. Erskine also trains professionals all over the world. From his experience and training in education, child development, and clinical psychology, and 20 years of practice as a psychotherapist, he has synthesized diverse concepts of theory and clinical practice to present an integrative perspective.

Janet P. Moursund, Ph.D. is an associate professor at the University of Oregon where she has taught for twenty years, first in the School of Community Service and Public Affairs and recently in the Division of Counseling and Educational Psychology. She founded and served as director of Aslan House, a low-cost community counseling center and is currently the director of the DeBusk Counseling Center. She is a licensedclinical psychologist and maintains a private practice at the Eugene, Oregon Center for Integrative Therapy. She has authored five previous books in the field of counseling and psychology, including Us People; Evaluation; Approaches to Personality and The Process of Counseling and Therapy.

Originally published in 1988. Sold out for the past five years.
Now available in paperback edition.

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The Gestalt Journal
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In Europe and the United Kingdom the book is available through
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The Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists, by the National Board of Certified Counselors for counselors and by the American Board of Examiners in Pastoral Counseling for pastoral counselors. The Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.