3o Workshop (Τριήμερο) “The field perspective in clinical practice. Towards a theory of therapeutic phronesis”

 

ΗΜΕΡΟΜΗΝΙΕΣ:   Παρασκευή 20 Απριλίου 2018,         10:00 – 18:00

                        Σάββατο 21 Απριλίου 2018,             10:00 – 18:00

                              Κυριακή 22 Απριλίου 2018,              10:00 – 18:00

 

 

The field concept has been used in psychotherapy in a variety of ways by different authors, but also in a variety of ways by the same authors at different times.

 

Without clarifying the meaning of the term, the risk is of creating a Babylonian confusion in which it is often unclear what we are talking about.

 

The aim of this seminar is not to propose a universal definition of the concept, but to offer, taking into consideration the complexity of the matter, a theoretical framework that is sufficiently clear and to illustrate its consequences for clinical practice.

The impact of a field perspective in psychotherapy can be revolutionary in its consequences on how the therapist approaches the session and conducts therapy.

 

The field perspective that I propose does not offer a technique that can be reproduced as behaviour, but proposes an approach to therapy to help steer the therapeutic act as it emerges in the specific situation. In this sense, it is not tekhnē (i.e., the repetition of specific behaviours to achieve a purpose), but rather phronēsis: the capacity to steer a path given the potentiality and limitations of the present situation.

 

The phronēsis of this field perspective supports an action which, although emerging anew in any given situation, unfolds along a line of approach that can be identified as specific and as such can be considered for the purposes of research, too.

 

So the field perspective is not a theory of a technique, but a theory of phronēsis. The view I present builds on the field concept in psychotherapy and seeks to develop the concept of the organism/environment field introduced by Perls, Hefferline & Goodman. This perspective helps us understand therapy work in a radically relational light.

 

 

ΣΥΝΤΟΝΙΣΤΗΣ: Gianni Francesetti, Ψυχίατρος, θεραπευτής Gestalt, Εκπαιδευτής και επόπτης σε διεθνές επίπεδο, έχει εκδώσει έναν μεγάλο αριθμό βιβλίων σε θέματα ψυχοθεραπείας και ψυχοπαθολογίας, διερευνώντας πρωτότυπες προσεγγίσεις για την κατανόηση της κλινικής πάθησης από την άποψη της φαινομενολογικής θεραπείας και της θεραπείας Gestalt και προτείνει νέα μοντέλα για τη διαμόρφωση συγκεκριμένων κλινικών διαταραχών (συμπεριλαμβανομένων των κρίσεων πανικού, της ψύχωσης, και της ιδεοψυχαναγκαστικής διαταραχής). Είναι Πρόεδρος του Poiesis. Gestalt Therapy Center of Torino και διευθυντής του IPsiG (International Institute for Gestalt Therapy and Psychopathology). Πρώην Πρόεδρος της EAGT (European Association for Gestalt Therapy), της SIPG (Italian Society for Gestalt therapy) και του FIAP (Italian Federation of Psychotherapy Associations), μέλος του New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, the Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy (AAGT), European Association of Psychotherapy (EAP), και της Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR). Ζει και εργάζεται στο Τορίνο της Ιταλίας.