Concepts in Psychotherapy

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In this course we address the theory of technique in several approaches to psychotherapy, especially as it applies to the question what is mutative in psychotherapy? We first examine the students' implicit theories of what is mutative so that students: 1- know they hold such theories, 2 - make those theories explicit, and 3 - can clarify what they believe along such dimensions as fantasy and reality, rationality and irrationality, temporality (past and present), reenactments and enactments, and also categories such as education, insight, and experience. We move on to learning the theory of techniques related to important, selected concepts in several major orientations and modalities. We note issues of class, sex, and race throughout our inquiries.