Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy

Workshops di Psicoterapia Integrativa

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Beyond Empathy: A Therapy of Contact-in-Relationship

Richard G. Erskine, Ph.D.
Sponsored by UK Relational Psychotherapy Association

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Therapy Case Discussions and Supervision: 6 Wednesdays in 2026:
January 14, 21 & 28; February 2, 11 & 18.

Time: UK = 17:00-20:00; Western Europe = 6:00-9:00pm;
Eastern Europe = 7:00-10:00pm; NA Pacific time 9:00 am-12:00pm; NA Eastern time 12:00 noon to 3:00 pm
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This case discussion and supervision group is intended for psychotherapists and counsellors who want to further their understanding and refine their therapeutic skills in providing a Developmentally-based, Relationally-focused Integrative Psychotherapy for their clients. We will focus on the client’s unconscious relational patterns and how transference is an expression of what the client needs in the therapeutic relationship. We will also explore the psychotherapist’s reactive and responsive countertransference and how to make effective use of the therapists internal sensations and fantasies.

In these 6 sessions (3-hours each session) there will be assigned readings and group discussions that may address the following topics:
• the centrality of an attuned therapeutic relationship;
• therapeutic attunement, involvement and presence;
• the importance of a sustained phenomenological inquiry;
• responding to relational-needs;
• working with the Script System;
• when and how to use behavioural or cognitive interventions and/or supportive age regression;
• countertransference and the therapeutic use of Self.


Participants are expected to present cases from their own therapeutic practice. These may include either formal presentations or spontaneous therapy vignettes that have been stimulated by the readings and discussions. Participation in these case discussions requires that each person makes an ethical commitment to client confidentiality.

To facilitate discussion specific readings will be assigned for each meeting. Participants are expected to come to class prepared to discuss how the concepts presented in the assigned chapters may apply to their therapy practice. The text book is Beyond Empathy: A Therapy of Contact-in-Relationship. If you have previously read the book, please read the assignment so that the ideas are fresh in your mind.

January 14: Chapters 1, 2 & 3
January 21: Chapters 4 & 5
January 28: Chapters 6 & 7
February 2: Chapters 8 & 9
February 11: Chapters 9, 10 & 11
February 18: Chapters 12 &13

Contatti: For Information and to register please contact:

Brenda Palmer, UK Relational Psychotherapy Association

Text: +44 (0)7702333351
Tel: +44 (0) 1572 757004
E-mail: brendagpalmer@aol.com
A certificate of participation will be issued upon completion of the 6-session Professional Development Seminar. This Seminar meets part of the training and supervision requirements of the Commission on Standards and Certification of the International Integrative Psychotherapy Association and both the European Association for Transactional Analysis and the International Transactional Analysis Association.
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L’Istituto di Psicoterapia Integrativa è approvato dalla Associazione di Psicologia Americana per il patrocinio della formazione continua per psicologi, dal Comitato Nazionale di Counselor Certificati e dal Comitato Americano di Esaminatori nel Counselling pastorale per Counselors Pastorali. L’Istituto di Psicoterapia Integrativa mantiene responsabilità per questo programma ed i suoi contenuti.