The integrative psychotherapy’s attributes:
The integrative psychotherapy created by Richard Erskine, president of the International Association of Integrative Psychotherapy is a form of psychotherapy with a theoretical knowledge of its own, based on the last decade’s research results and having as a goal the integration of the personality domains, the main methods of psychotherapy and the integration of self.
Specialists both local and from abroad organise togehter on a regular basis training courses, recognised by the Romanian Psychotherapy College, having as a goal to grant the graduates the right of psychoterapy free practice.
The integrative psychotherapy means a special attitude in psychotherapy practice that states the unicity of each person. It involves the process of making a whole that takes into account and deals with all the levels of a person’s functioning: affective; behavioural; cognitive; spiritual and corporal.
The term “integrative” of Integrative Psychotherapy has a number of meanings. First, it refers to the process of integrating the personality: taking disowned, unaware, unresolved aspects of the ego and making them part of a cohesive self.
“Integrative” also refers to the integration of theory, the bringing together of affective, cognitive, behavioral, physiological, and systems approaches to psychotherapy.
The core concepts of the integrative psychotherapy are based on a systemic theory of the personality, psychodynamic, client centered, behaviorist, family therapy, Gestalt therapy, Reichian, object relations theories, psychoanalytic Self psychology and Transactional Analysis. All these are related functioning toghether and empowering each other as a dynamic system.
Each provides a valid but partial explanation of behavior, and each is enhanced when selectively integrated with the others.
The therapeutic approaches in integrative psychotherapy are based on the human development theories that describe the defense mechanisms used by the person when the normal development is altered.
The attributes of the Training program in integrative psychotherapy:
First year of training:
The integrative psychotherapy promotes a modern form of psychotherapy centered on:
– theories of motivation: stimulus, structure and relationship;
– theory of personality: contact and loss of contact, the self and the contact in relationship, the relational needs, the Ego States, the life script, transference and coutertransference
– theory of methods: relational, regressive, corporal methods, relational group process and others (art therapy), the therapy of injunction.
Second year of training:
Sessions structured psychotherapy programs, diagnostic criteria, explanatory theories for the schizoid and dissociative process.
The personal development
It uses the “marathon psychotherapy” – a method promoted by Richard Erskine. It organizes two sessions of camp in the summer at Comarnic (Sinaia) in the first and two years of training.
Supervision:
both individual and group sessions
Participation requirements:
– BA in Psychology,
– psychiatrists,
– medicine and pedagogy graduates can pursue training in integrative psychotherapy, but with further education (until their presentation to the College committee) with a package of specialized postgraduate courses (Psychodiagnostic and clinical evaluation; Clinical Psychology and/or medical; Counseling and Psychotherapy; psychiatry and/or psychopathology; Health psychology and/or psychosomatic; Developmental Psychology)
Terms for the ongoing training in integrative psychotherapy:
– 1 course per month over the weekend (Saturday + Sunday) for the basic training
Attestation
After 2 years you get the certified “right to free practice under supervision” – the first certificate issued by the College of Psychologists of Romania which gives you the right to practice psychotherapy and to open a psychotherapy practice office; the third and fourth year are intended and used for clinical supervision. Finally you will obtain the second certificate – of “self-therapist”.
Cities where we have groups training in integrative psychotherapy:
Bucharest Constanta Deva Iasi
Information and details of training:
Secretariat Bucuresti, Constanta, Deva: 0744 33 44 19; [email protected]
Secretariat Iasi: 0729 049 252