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An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: IBP Integrative Body Psychotherapy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBP_Integrative_Body_Psychotherapy

“IBP Integrative Body Psychotherapy” was developed by Jack Lee Rosenberg, Ph.D., MFT. IBP was founded and developed by Jack Lee Rosenberg together with Diana Asay, a Jungian Analyst, and Marjorie Rand, Ph.D.and first presented as a therapeutic form in their book: \"Body, Self and Soul - Sustaining Integration\". (1985)

In 2007 there are 14 regional Institutes, covering the U.S.A., Canada and european countries (Switzerland, Germany, Belgium).

In Switzerland and Canada Integrative Body Psychotherapy IBP has received acceptance by the state authorities as the first method of body psychotherapy.

The different IBP Institutes are members of the U.S. Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP) , the European Association for Body Psychotherapy (EABP)

Approach: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBP_Integrative_Bo...ychotherapy#Approach

IBP's approach is a holistic one, taking body, self and soul as inseparable aspects of our being human.

It focuses on the somatic, emotional, social, and spiritual energetic experience, and the way these are expressed in relationships through words and embodiment.

Basic Concepts: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBP_Integrative_Bo...erapy#Basic_Concepts

The basic concepts used in this therapeutic style are: Body-awareness, Core or True Self (self psychology), Breath, Grounding, Containment, Boundaries (see Gestalt therapy), Fragmentation and Reframing-composition, Issue of Sexuality, Current Situation, Here and Now, Transference and Counter transference in the therapeutic relationship.

The concepts of Secret Themes, Character Style, (other) Agency and Self Agency Daniel Stern were developed later with Beverly Morse Ph.D and integrated into IBP. Release of tension and transpersonal aspects round off the \"core bug\".

The aim is to create a greater and smoother sense of wholeness both within oneself, with others and existentially with the cosmic powers that be.

History: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBP_Integrative_Bo...sychotherapy#History

Rosenberg first brought his mind-body psychology to dentists in the early 1960's, later he brought body-mind integration to psychotherapists and counsellors.

Rosenberg has integrated the effective aspects of Psychoanalysis, Object Relations Theory, Gestalt therapy, Reichian therapy, Self Psychology, Bioenergetics (Bioenergetic analysis), Transpersonal Psychotherapy, Yoga and Eastern theories and practices.

He synthesized the best of these various approaches with his own personal perspective and created a highly effective implementation for psychotherapy.

Jack Rosenberg became a training therapist and board member at the Gestalt Institute of Psychotherapy, San Francisco (1968-1976).

As a trainer at the Gestalt Institute in San Francisco for nine years, he first called his work Gestalt Body Psychotherapy (GBT) and only in the 1980s \"Integrative Body Psychotherapy\" after starting to write \"Body, Self and Soul - Sustaining Integration\" in 1979. Source: JACK LEE ROSENBERG, Celebrating a Master Psychotherapist.

An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: Integral Thought (This article is about integral thought in philosophy and psychology. It is unrelated to the concept of an integral in calculus. It is also unrelated to Integralism, a right-wing political philosophy):

Integral Thought (also called the integral paradigm, the integral movement, integral philosophy, the integral worldview, or the integral approach): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_psychotherapy

Integral thought (also called the integral paradigm, the integral movement, integral philosophy, the integral worldview, or the integral approach) is a New Age movement that seeks a comprehensive understanding of humans and the universe by combining scientific and spiritual insights.

The movement originates with the California Institute of Integral Studies founded in 1968 by Haridas Chaudhuri, a disciple of Sri Aurobindo.

A notable current proponent is Ken Wilber.

Integral thought is claimed to provide \"a new understanding of how evolution affects the development of consciousness and culture\".[1]

According to the Integral Transformative Practice website, integral means \"dealing with the body, mind, heart, and soul.\"

Integral thought is seen by proponents as going beyond rationalism and materialism.

It attempts to introduce a more universal and holistic perspective or approach. Proponents view rationalism as subordinating, ignoring, and/or denying spirituality.

Wilber begins by acknowledging and validating mystical experience, rather than denying its reality.

As these experiences have occurred to humans in all cultures in all eras, integral theorists accept them as valuable and not pathological.

(This article is about integral thought in philosophy and psychology. It is unrelated to the concept of an integral in calculus. It is also unrelated to Integralism, a right-wing political philosophy).

An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: Integrative Psychotherapy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrative_Psychotherapy

Integrative Psychotherapy involves the fusion of different schools of psychotherapy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychotherapy

Background: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrative_Psychotherapy#Background

Initially, Sigmund Freud developed a talking cure called psychoanalysis; then he wrote about his therapy and popularized psychoanalysis.

After Freud, many different disciplines splintered off.

Some of the more common therapies include: psychoanalytic psychotherapy, counseling, co-counseling, analysis, transactional analysis, cognitive behavioral therapy, gestalt therapy, body psychotherapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy, family systems therapy, person-centered psychotherapy, and existential therapy.

Over two hundred different acknowledged theories of psychotherapy are practiced.[citation needed]

A new therapy is born in several stages.

After being trained in an existing school of psychotherapy, the therapist begins to practice.

Then, after follow up training in other schools, the therapist may combine the different theories as a basis of a new practice.

Then, some practitioners write about their new approach and label this approach with a new name.

This overall pattern has been observed in numerous new therapies and is certain to form many future therapies.

A pragmatic or a theoretical approach can be taken when fusing schools of psychotherapy.

Pragmatic practitioners blend a few strands of theory from a few schools as well as various techniques; such practitioners are sometimes called eclectic psychotherapists and are primarily concerned with what works.

Alternatively, other therapists consider themselves to be more theoretically grounded as they blend their theories; they are called integrated psychotherapists and are not only concerned with what works, but why it works.

For example an eclectic therapist might experience a change in their client after administering a particular technique and be satisfied with a positive result.

In contrast, an integrative therapist is curious about the \"why and how\" of the change as well.

A theoretical emphasis is important; for example, the client may only have been trying to please the therapist and was adapting to the therapist rather than becoming more fully empowered in themselves.

An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensive_short-te...ynamic_psychotherapy

Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) is a form of short-term psychotherapy developed through empirical research by Habib Davanloo MD.

Its primary goal is to help the patient overcome internal resistance to experiencing true feelings about the present and past which have been warded off because they are either too frightening or else too painful.

The technique is intensive in that it aims to help the patient experience these warded-off feelings to the maximum degree possible.

It is short-term in that it tries to achieve this experience as quickly as possible.

It is dynamic because it imvolves working with unconscious forces and transference feelings.

Patients come to therapy because of either symptoms or interpersonal difficulties.

Symptoms include traditional psychological problems like anxiety and depression, but they also include medically unexplained symptoms (e.g. headache, shortness of breath, diarrhoea, sudden weakness) which occur in distressing situations where painful or forbidden emotions are triggered outside of awareness.

The therapy itself was developed during the 1960s to 1990s by Dr. Habib Davanloo, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst from Montreal who grew frustrated with the lengthiness and relatively limited efficacy of psychoanalysis.

He began video recording patient interviews and watching the recordings in minute detail to determine as precisely as possible what sorts of interventions were most effective in overcoming resistance.

In addition to numerous articles, his principal texts are Unlocking the Unconscious (Wiley, 1990) and Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (Wiley, 2001).

Origins and Theoretical Foundation of ISTDP: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensive_short- term_dynamic_psychotherapy#Origins_and_Theoretical_Foundation_of_ISTDP

In 1895, Breuer and Sigmund Freud published their \"Studies on Hysteria\", which looked at a series of cases where patients presented with very dramatic neurological symptoms.

These symptoms did not conform to known patterns of neuroanatomical disease, and neurologists of the day were thus quite mystified.

Breuer's breakthrough was the discovery that symptomatic relief could be brought about by encouraging patients to simply speak freely about emotionally difficult aspects of their lives.

It was not just the talk, though; it was also the experience of emotions, previously outside of awareness, which seemed curative.

This cure became known as catharsis, and the experiencing of the previously forbidden or painful emotion was abreaction.

Freud tried various techniques to deal with the fact that patients were, quite naturally, resistant to experiencing painful feelings.

He moved from hypnosis to waking suggestion, and finally to free association and dream interpretation.

With each step, therapy became longer and longer. Furthermore, as Freud and the early analysts encountered ever more difficult cases, they realised that the patient's degree of resistance could actually be quite profound.

Freud himself was quite open about the possibility that there were many patients for whom analysis could bring little or no relief, and he discusses the factors in his 1937 paper \"Analysis Terminable and Interminable.\"

From the 1930s through the 1950s, numerous analysts were engaged with the question of how to shorten the course of therapy but still achieve therapeutic effectiveness.

These included Sándor Ferenczi, Franz Alexander, Peter Sifneos, David Malan, and Habib Davanloo.

One of the first discoveries was that the patients who tended to benefit the most greatly from therapy were those who could rapidly engage, could describe a specific therapeutic focus, and could quickly move to an experience of their previously warded-off feelings.

These also happened to represent those patients who were the healthiest to begin with and therefore had the least need for the therapy being offered.

Clinical research revealed that these patients were able to benefit because they were the least resistant.

They were the least resistant because they were the least traumatised and therefore had the smallest burden of repressed emotion.

However, among the patients coming to the clinic for various problems, the rapid responders represented only a small minority.

What could be offered to those who represented the vast bulk of patients coming for treatment?

It became commonly recognised among the short-term dynamic researchers that overcoming resistance was the chief task of psychotherapeutic research.

Toward this end, Dr. David Malan first conceptualised a model of resistance, known as the \"Triangle of Conflict\". At the bottom of the triangle are the patient's true impulse-laden feelings, outside of conscious awareness.

When those emotions rise to a certain degree and threaten to break into conscious awareness, they trigger anxiety.

The patient manages this anxiety by deploying defences, which lessen anxiety by pushing emotions back into the unconscious.

The emotions at the bottom of Malan's Triangle of Conflict originate in the patient's past, and Malan's second triangle, the \"Triangle of Persons\", explains that old emotions generated from the past are triggered in current relationships and also get triggered in the relationship with the therapist.

But how is it that people end up with painful emotions in the first place which they ward out of awareness?

An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: Internal Family Systems Model: (This article does not cite any references or sources: April 2007):

Internal Family Systems Model: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Family_Systems_Model

The Internal Family Systems Model (IFS) is an integrative approach to psychotherapy, relationship counseling, and family therapy developed by Richard C. Schwartz, Ph.D.

It combines systems thinking and multiplicity of the mind, and applies the theories of family therapy to the intrapsychic world of subpersonalities.

(This article does not cite any references or sources: April 2007).

An List Of: Talking Therapies/Counselling For Mental Health/Depression: Interpersonal Psychoanalysis: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpersonal_psychoanalysis

Interpersonal Psychoanalysis is based on the theories of Harry Stack Sullivan: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Stack_Sullivan , an American psychiatrist who believed that the details of patient's interpersonal interactions with others provided insight into the causes and cures of mental disorder.[1][2]

Sullivan argued that patients keep many aspects of interpersonal relationships out of their awareness by selective inattention.

He felt that it to be important for psychotherapists to conduct a detailed inquiry into patient's interactions with others so that patients would become optimally aware of their interpersonal patterns.

Unlike classical psychoanalysts, interpersonal analysts focus on asking patients detailed questions about their moment-to-moment interactions with others, including the analyst.