In this video Bob Cooke TSTA discusses the Supervision certificate which is run at the Manchester Institute For Psychotherapy.
Client assessment
In this video Bob Cooke TSTA and Rory Lee Oakes discuss how therapists do initial assessments with their clients. This video is aimed at beginning Psychotherapists, and will also be useful for the more experienced Psychotherapists. Bob is a founding director of the Manchester Institute psychotherapy and is also the overall trainer of the transactional analysis training at the Institute.
Supervision training courses and defence mechanisms.
Supervision training courses ,and Psychotherapy training courses ,whether they have a major Humanistic or Psychodynamic stance, will be concerned with the teaching of the defence mechanisms of the client population, in the therapy process, and the defence mechanisms of the Supervisee in the supervision population.
Clients when coming to Psychotherapy ,and Supervisee’s when entering their Supervision may errect, and maintain, if possible, their defence mechanisms.
In Psychotherapy these defence mechanisms are established by the client to maintain their own Script, and their sense of reality; and of course to keep the psychotherapist at bay ,and out of connection or relationship with themselves. in Supervision the Supervisee may, out of their awareness,errect similar defence mechanisms as the ones that the clients operate from within the therapeutic process.
Such Defence mechanisms are;
Denial
Projection
Projective Identification
Dissociation
Regression
Compartmentalisation
Splitting
in transactional analysis psychotherapy other defences include any of the Injunctions, Drivers, Games, Rackets and any other mechanisms to maintain their Script plan. As these defence mechanisms are unconscious it is important that the Therapist, within the Therapy process interprets and confronts them. In the Supervision process it is also important that the Supervisor helps the Supervisee ,to become aware of some of the defence mechanisms that they might be employing within the Supervisory process. And in terms of Parallel Process, how they may also be using the same unconscious defence mechanisms ,to keep out of relationship with their own clients in the own therapeutic process.
Indeed this shows how important the Supervisor is within the supervision encounter. It’s vitally important then that the Supervision courses, include in the syllabus ,the teaching of defence mechanisms, parallel process, and how to work with unconscious communication. For it is the Supervision and training that provides the competent Supervisee’s and Supervisors of today.
Bob Cooke 2013
Working with the Vulnerable self
This video is for Psychotherapists who will be working with clients within the therapeutic process, and specifically working with the vulnerabilities of their clients. In this video Bob Cooke talks through his keynote presentation about vulnerability, and the methodology of how to come alongside the vulnerability of the client population.
This keynote presentation, was first presented by Bob Cooke at a MIP seminar in October 2013
Sexual feelings in Psychotherapy-
In this video Bob Cooke TSTA and Rory Lee Oakes ,discuss what is meant by the Erotic Transference? How do Psychotherapists deal with this phenomena in the service of a Relational Psychotherapy.
Monthly seminars at MIP
An introduction Mip seminars and Stephenie talking about her seminar.
Therapy and the Mind
Therapy and the Brain-The latest research on the brain and its implications for Psychotherapy today.
Keeping Emotions in Check May Not Always Benefit Psychological Health – Association for Psychological Science
Maintaining a stiff upper lip and keeping our emotions under control is not beneficial to our mental health. Of course for our resilience and ability to cope with the lifes ups and downs we need to be able to regulate our emotions. But a common emotion strategy called ‘cognitive reappraisal’ may actually be harmful in our daily lives.
Allison Troy a lead researcher on the project says
“For someone facing a stressful situation in which they have little control, such as a loved one’s illness, the ability to use reappraisal should be extremely helpful — changing emotions may be one of the only things that he or she can exert some control over to try to cope”. She goes on to add that “But for someone experiencing trouble at work because of poor performance, for example, reappraisal might not be so adaptive. Reframing the situation to make it seem less negative may make that person less inclined to attempt to change the situation.”
This new research is fascinating and is well worth the read.
Reading list-Schools in TA
Reading list-Schools in TA -Specifically with regards to the four schools in TA Integrative, Re-decision,-Classical,- Cathexis- approaches .
The Cathexis School
1 Cathexis reader J Schiff 1975
2 100 top techniques in transactional analysis by Mark Widdowson 2012
3- Eric Berne buying Stew
The Classical School
1- Transactional analysis psychotherapy by Eric Berne 1961
2- games people play by Eric Berne 1964
3. principles of group treatment by Eric Berne 1967
4- what do you say after you say hello by Eric Berne 1969
5- sex in human loving by Eric Berne 1970
6- scripts people live by Claude Steiner 1974
7- transactional analysis by Woolooms and Brown. 1978
8- developing TA counselling in action by Ian Stewart 1997
9- TA today by Ian Stewart and Vann Joines 2011 second edition
10- Eric Berne by Ian Stewart 1996
11- transactional analysis in counselling by Ian Stewart 1989
12- dictionary of transactional analysis by Tony Tilney 1998
13- 100 top techniques in transactional analysis by Mark Widowson 2012
The Integrative school<strong
1- beyond empathy by Richard Erskine’s 1999
2- integrative psychotherapy in action by Richard Erskine Sage publications 1988
3- theories and methods of integrative psychotherapy 1997
4- the art and science of relationship by Richard Erskine 2002 5-Erskines website www. integrative psychotherapy
The Re-decision school
1- that power is in the patient by R Goulding TA press in 1978 2. changing lives through re-decision therapy by the Goulding’s 1979
3- Eric Berne by Ian Stewart 1976
4- 100 top techniques by Mark Widowson 2012
5- born to Win by Muriel James and Dorothy Joungwood 1974
If you are interested in Psychotherapy training in Transactional Analysis click here
Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy!
Can hypnosis help us to access deeply buried memories? Can simple finger-signalling techniques help facilitate psychological healing? What psychobiological processes are at work?
Drawing on the long tradition of therapeutic hypnosis, and recent research into neurobiology, the seminar will explore the mind-body connection and how these techniques can be integrated into other modalities of psychotherapy.
The seminar will be led by Rob Hardy MBIH DipACH DipPNLP, a clinical hypnotist and NLP practitioner in private practice in Manchester.
Venue: MIP
Time: 6.30-8.30pm
Facilitator: Rob Hardy MBIH DipACH DipPNLP, a clinical hypnotist and NLP practitioner in private practice in Manchester.
Cost: £10.00 Pay on the night
Date: Friday 10th January 2014
