FSS:PSY430 Erickson's Psychotherapy - Course Information

PSY430 Erickson's and Communicational Psychotherapy

Extent and Intensity

1/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

PhDr. Juraj Barbarič (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

PhDr. Juraj Barbarič
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Social Studies

Timetable

Fri 8:00–19:30 bude_upresneno

Prerequisites (in Czech)

PSY406 Psychotherapy

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Psychology (programme FSS, N-PS)
• Psychotherapeutic Studies (programme FSS, N-PS)

Course objectives

To understand that: - In the history of psychotherapy, so far, the unique pragmatic effectiveness of Milton Erickson ’ s psychotherapy was rooted in his abilities, both mental and practical, to approach each individual patient (client) without any general or positivistic theoretical hermeneutic concept of personality, psychopathology, psychotherapy. - Therefore, the psychotherapeutic approaches based on general theory and as well as general techniques of any genesis are very limited in terms of effectiveness, because they do not respect the individuality of each human being or social system and that they might be, and also many times are potentially dangerous (harmful) for a client, because they are seeking, seeing, and creating problems there, where no problems are, or had not been before, and they force solutions upon their clients. - Through the lineage- Team MRI Palo Alto (Bateson, Watzlawick, Haley, Jackson …)- Milan Team (Mara Selvini Palazzoli and col.)- BFTC (Steve DeShazer and Insoo Kim Berg)-Gergen- White and Epson…(plus many other theoretical and practical branches )- Milton Erickson influenced, through effectiveness and concept, the development of the psychotherapy of second half of 20th century toward the system and systemic, radical constructivistic, socially constructionistic and narrative concepts. - That in psychology and psychotherapy (also in psychiatry), thanks to this development, Kuhn’ s paradigmatic revolution occurred; that it is apparent that objectivistic, positivistic, quantitative, generalizing, biologically reductionistic approaches are ( in terms of epistemology, methodology, and also pragmatics) surmountable, and the fact that non- objectivistic and qualitative approaches have not become completely normal science in Kuhn’ s meaning or understanding (so far), because of the rigidity of academic structures and traditions in the subjects of psychology and psychiatry, and also because of economic- ideological interests of some groups (for instance pharmaceutical firms, politicians, and scientists, or pseudo-scientists); (in terms of epistemology and paradigms , a situation very similar to disruption between classical and quantum mechanics). - That an effective psychotherapist (and also really good psychologist) cannot operate without a quite a deep understanding of logics (problems with inductions and deductions or theory of logical types), philosophy of science, history of science, epistemology, and cultural anthropology (topics which students of psychology are not very familiar with, unfortunately). Only the cultivation of thinking occupied with those topics leads to (in more fortunate cases), rational and, afterwards, experiential understanding of the reality that efforts toward objectivist or positivist concepts of psychology and psychiatry have been absurd. This understanding leads to self- reflection of a quality essential for the efficient psychotherapist, and it leads also to ability truly perceive and understand and accept human and social systems in their uniqueness and individuality, substantive and contextual , what is a conditio sine qua non for a therapeutic relationship, saturated with true trust and security, what is an essential condition of any fruitful therapeutic continuance. To perceive, experience and “roughly” rationally comprehend: - How the psychotherapeutic interview that has a foundation in non- objectivistic, systemic, communicative, and narrative concepts works; - how the main structure and technique of this interview’ s conveyance looks like; - how “ Ericksonian “ hypnosis works; - what are the main structures, techniques, and the position of Ericksonian hypnosis in the overall reference to non- objectivist, non- positivistic, and narrative psychotherapy, and what role “ Ericksonian” hypnosis has played in the paradigmatic shift toward (post) modern psychotherapy.

Syllabus

• The class is intended to be learnt in form of intensive course.
• Erickson hypnosis approach as a base of communication psychotherapy
• Erickson approach of person, his/her matters, problems, attitudes to them, both in clinics and experiments, as crucial assumption of Erikson`s achievements
• Narrative therapy
• NLP (Richard Bandler a John Grinder)
• Social constructivism (Gergen …)
• Phenomenon of scientism in sciencis of psychology and psychiatry

Literature

• Leon Chertok: Hypnóza – Narcistická rána
• Gregory Bateson: Mysl a příroda - nezbytná jednota.
• Paul Fayerabend: Rozprava proti metodě
• Jay S. Efran, Michael Lukens, Robert Lukens: Language, Structure and Change
• Ernest Rossi, Milton Erickson: Hypnotherapy. An Exploratory Casebook
• Ernest Rossi: The Collected Papers of Milton H. Erickson (Four Volumes)
• Jay Haley: Conversations with Milton H. Erickson (Three Volumes)
• Michael White, David Epston: Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends
• Kamila Strachoňová: Terapeuticky relevantní témata v rodinách „schizofreniků“. Diplomová práce FF MU, psychologický ústav, 2002
• Ernest Rossi: The Psychobiology of Mind – Body Healing
• Dagmar Černá: Poruchy příjmu potravy v rodině – konstruktivistický pohled. Diplomová práce FF MU, psychologický ústav, 2002
• Humberto Maturana, Francesco Varela: The Tree of Knowledge
• Kurt Ludewig: Systemická terapie
• Gregory Bateson: Steps to an Ecology of Mind
• Thomas Kuhn: Strukutra vědeckých revolucí
• Ernest Rossi, Milton Erickson: The February Man
• Karl Popper: Logika vědeckého zkoumání
• Jeffrey Zeig: A Teaching Seminar with Milton H. Erickson
• Jay Haley: Neobvyklá psychoterapie Miltona.H. Ericksona.
• Ernest Rossi, Milton Erickson: Hypnotic Realities
• SCHLIPPE, Arist von. Systemická terapie a poradenství. Edited by Jochen Schweitzer. Brno: Cesta, 2006, 251 s. ISBN 8072950827. info
• WATZLAWICK, Paul, Don D. JACKSON and Janet Beavin BAVELASOVÁ. Pragmatika lidské komunikace :interakční vzorce, patologie a paradoxy. Translated by Barbora Zídková - Zbyněk Vybíral. Vyd. 1. Hradec Králové: Konfrontace, 1999, 243 s. ISBN 80-86088-04-9. info
• WATZLAWICK, Paul. Jak skutečná je skutečnost? :mylné představy, klamání, porozumění. Translated by Zbyněk Vybíral. Vyd. 1. Hradec Králové: Konfrontace, 1998, 234 s. ISBN 80-86088-00-6. info
• JONES, Elsa. Terapie rodinných systémů :vývoj v milánských systematických [i.e. systemických] terapiích. Vyd. 1. Hradec Králové: Konfrontace, 1996, 207 s. ISBN 80-901773-6-0. info
• CHERTOK, Léon. Nepoznaná psychika : hypnóza mezi psychoanalýzou a biologií. Translated by František Hájek. Vyd. 1. Praha: Avicenum, zdravotnické nakladatelství, 1986, 283 s. URL info

Assessment methods

The methods of the class: lecture, large space for interactive discussion, case studies, examples, demonstrations, practical exercises; the class has a semi-standard structure, which is always adapted to the concrete participants and the atmosphere in the group

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

Teacher's information

http://www.fss.muni.cz/psych/studium.html

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