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E. Denise Simmons

She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts Boston, and a Master's degree in Psychotherapy from Antioch College.

Frank Ochberg

Ochberg has also founded, headed or been part of a number of organizations dealing with PTSD and its treatment, including Gift From Within (founder), Critical Incident Analysis Group CIAG (founder) and The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma (chairman emeritus).

Ian Alger

Ian Ewart Alger (June 20, 1926 – February 21, 2009) was an innovative psychotherapist who was an early adopter of using videotape as a tool in therapy.

Kerry Cohen

A practicing psychotherapist and writing instructor, she lives with her husband and two sons in Portland, Oregon.

Wesley Institute

Wesley Institute is a tertiary education provider in Sydney, Australia offering undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in counselling, creative arts (drama, dance, graphic design and music), education and theology.


Alice Ricciardi-von Platen

After the war, she worked as a volunteer at the psychosomatic clinic of the Heidelberg University, with Viktor von Weizsäcker, where she continued her training in psychotherapy.

Betty Eisner

In the 1990s, she maintained a private practice in Santa Monica, California, occasionally publishing articles on psychotherapy and serving on the board of advisors for the Albert Hofmann Foundation.

Eisner conducted psychotherapy research, first with Sidney Cohen at the Neuropsychiatric Hospital Veterans Administration Center in Los Angeles and, later, from her private practice in Los Angeles.

Bodymind

Bodymind therapy combines the strengths of "talk" therapy with bodywork, such as touch, postural alignment, or movement education and exercise with psychotherapy (that is, including verbal dialog, psychodrama, role play, narrative storytelling etc.) by inducing the use of ‘affectregulation’.

Carol Leader

Despite a successful stage and television career, Leader eventually quit acting and now works as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in Ealing, London, and is a senior member of the Association for Group and Individual Psychotherapy and a senior associate of Management Training Company, Maynard Leigh Associates.

Catherine Steiner-Adair

She has a private psychotherapy practice in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts where she works with adolescents, adults, couples, and families.

Claude Steiner

In 1957 he met and became a follower of Eric Berne, psychiatrist and founder of the transactional analysis school of psychotherapy.

Clive Sherlock

At Oxford Sherlock trained in cognitive behavioural therapy and in Jungian analytical psychotherapy with Dr Anthony Storr.

Conversational model

The Conversational Model of psychotherapy was devised by the English psychiatrist Robert Hobson, and developed by the Australian psychiatrist Russell Meares.

Cyberpsychology

Lisa Kudrow's web-based situation comedy Web Therapy, in which Kudrow's unaccredited and unscrupulous character Fiona Wallice conducts therapy sessions using iChat, explores many of the ethical and practical issues raised by the prospect of psychotherapy conducted via Internet video chat.

Douglas LaBier

He then trained in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Washington School of Psychiatry, and in the clinical and research methods of the psychoanalyst Erich Fromm.

E. Mark Stern

Stern served as Editor of the Journal of Pastoral Counseling (published by Iona College), Voices: the Journal of the American Academy of Psychotherapists and was founding Editor of the Psychotherapy Patient published by the Haworth Press.

Elizabeth Olivet

She is also generally in favor of compassionate, involved psychotherapy in mental institutions, rather than imprisonment or antipsychotic drugs, for genuinely disturbed criminals; this is often shown to clash with the detectives' sense of justice.

Freiburger Persönlichkeitsinventar

The FPI-R was developed as a personality test with a mean bandwidth for various tasks of psychological diagnosis, but has an application focus in the areas of psychosomatic, psychotherapy, rehabilitation, chronic diseases and health psychology.

Global Consciousness Project

The group events studied included psychotherapy sessions, theater presentations, religious rituals, sports competitions such as the Football World Cup, and television broadcasts like the Academy Awards.

Heinrich Jacobi

Heinrich Jacoby (1889–1964), German musician and educator, who was an important influence to body psychotherapy

Heinrich Jacoby

The work of Heinrich Jacoby influenced body psychotherapy through the workshops that Charlotte Selver (1901–2003), student of Jacoby and Gindler, gave to major body psychotherapists at the Esalen Institute in the 1960s.

Human givens

Human Givens, name of a "bio-psycho-social model of psychotherapy"

Institute for Juvenile Research

Franz Alexander who was known for his work on Psychosomatic Medicine, short-term psychotherapy, and the corrective emotional experience and Julius B. Richmond, M.D. a pediatrician who would later develop Head Start and served as Surgeon General of the United States under President Jimmy Carter .

Integrative psychotherapy

Another example of synthesis is Anthony Ryle’s (2005) model of Cognitive Analytic Therapy, integrating ideas from psychoanalytic object-relations theory and cognitive psychotherapy.

James Gilligan

During his career, Gilligan has served as director for the Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane, director of mental health for the Massachusetts prison system and as President of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy.

Leigh McCullough

McCullough was an associate clinical professor at Harvard Medical School, director of the Psychotherapy Research Program at Harvard's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and a visiting professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim, Norway).

Mel Schwartz

Dr. David Loy, an expert on Japanese Zen Buddhism, has praised Mel for his contributions to the field of contemporary psychotherapy and non-duality, including his insights on the topic of emotional masking.

Menninger Foundation

Robert S. Wallerstein, Forty-two lives in treatment : a study of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy : the report of the Psychotherapy Research Project of the Menninger Foundation, 1954-1982, New York : Other Press, 2000

Michele Weiner-Davis

In 1989 Weiner-Davis co-authored her first book, In Search of Solutions:A New Direction in Psychotherapy with Bill O'Hanlon.

Milieu

Milieu therapy, a form of psychotherapy that involves the use of therapeutic communities

Morton Hunt

He describes how meta-analysis was first developed by Gene Glass as a way to summarize evidence for psychotherapy.

Mustafa Ziyalan

He had psychoanalytical psychotherapy training in Los Angeles and completed his residency training in psychiatry at New York University.

Psychedelic therapy

Individuals having published information on psychedelic psychotherapy in this period include George Greer, Ann Shulgin (TiHKAL, with Alexander Shulgin), and Myron Stolaroff (The Secret Chief, about the underground therapy done by Leo Zeff) and Athanasios Kafkalides.

Rebirthing

Core process psychotherapy, a psychotherapy that practices a Buddhist awareness as the centre of a healing relationship between client and therapist

Reichian therapy

Vegetotherapy, a form of psychotherapy that involves the physical manifestations of emotions.

Richard Lindley

He also co-wrote The Values of Psychotherapy (Studies in Bioethics) with R.D. Hinshelwood, Jeremy Holmes, and Richard Lindley.

Rind et al. controversy

The first substantial and public reaction was a December criticism by the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality, an organization dedicated to the discredited view that homosexuality is a mental illness that can be cured by psychotherapy.

Roger Walsh

According to his profile, Dr. Walsh received his degrees from the University of Queensland and is involved in six ongoing research areas: 1) comparison of different schools of psychology and psychotherapy, 2) studies of Asian psychologies and philosophies, 3) the effects of meditation, 4) transpersonal psychology, 5) the psychology of religion, and 6) the psychology of human survival (exploring the psychological causes and consequences of the current global crises).

Self-help groups for mental health

Edward Sagarin compared it to a modern, reasonable, and rational implementation of Émile Coué's psychotherapy.

Sensorimotor psychotherapy

Graduate credit for doctoral degree in Somatic Psychology or Clinical Psychology can be obtained at Santa Barbara Graduate Institute as part of their Professional Specialty Program by attending Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Trainings.

Status dynamic psychotherapy

Status Dynamic Psychotherapy1 (“SDT”) is an approach to psychotherapy that was created by Peter G. Ossorio at the University of Colorado in the late 1960s as part of a larger system known as "Descriptive Psychology," and that has subsequently been developed by other practitioners.234

Stephen A. Diamond

After practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than 20 years, he relocated in 1999 to Los Angeles, where he currently resides and maintains a private psychotherapy practice in the Beverly Hills area.

Stephen Gilligan

Gilligan also developed a new therapy, known as self-relations psychotherapy, using ideas from Ericksonian, Aikido, Buddhism, meditation, and the performance arts.

Stephen Ticktin

Ticktin has also been a visiting lecturer and supervisor at the Regent's College School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, and at The New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling at Schiller International University, where he worked with Emmy van Deurzen.

Themes of Neon Genesis Evangelion

Besides the references to Freudian Psychoanalysis there are also some minor references to the theories behind Gestalt therapy, a form of psychotherapy influenced by both psychoanalytic ideas as well as philosophical notions of a holistic self, personal responsibilities and the consciousness.

Valérie Grumelin-Halimi

EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is a psychotherapy technique developed by Francine Shapiro.

Viktor Frankl

On 29 July 1943, Frankl organized a closed event for the Scientific Society at Theresienstadt, and with the help of Leo Baeck he offered a series of open lectures, including "Sleep and Sleep Disturbances", "Body and Soul", "Medical Care of the Soul", "Psychology of Mountaineering", "How to keep my nerves healthy?", "Medical ministry", "Existential Problems in Psychotherapy", and "Social Psychotherapy".

We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy – And the World's Getting Worse

We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy – And the World's Getting Worse is a 1992 book by American psychologist James Hillman and American writer and commentator Michael Ventura.


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