Workshops 2009 (Second Semester):


September 25 – 26, 2009
Bertram Muller
Theme: Theory and Praxis of Gestalt therapy Diagnosis (based on the Theory of the Self first overall diagnostic judgment on the Patients’ experience and behavioural structure)
Time: Friday, Saturday: 10.00hrs till 18.00hrs; Place: Corinthia, Attard

October, 23 – 24
Gianni Francesetti
Theme: Gestalt Therapy with Depression
Times: from 9.30hrs to 13.30hrs and from 14.30hrs to
18.30hrs
• Depression and Mania: phenomenology, descriptive approach and history of the diagnosis
• Depression as creative adjustment and relational experience
• Meaning frames for depressive experiences
• Specific support
• Depression and the postmodern social field

Gianni Francesetti, psychiatrist and Gestalt psychotherapist, trained by M. Spagnuolo Lobb and G. Salonia; Gianni Francesetti teaches on the Gestalt Psychotherapy Training Programs of the “Istituto di Gestalt H.C.C.” and of “Scuola di Gestalt di Torino”. He is a member of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy and of the Executive Committee of the European Association for Gestalt Therapy. He is the President of the SIPG (Italian Gestalt Psychotherapy Association), chair of the EAGT Training Standards Committee, a member of the Pool of Experts of the European Association for Psychotherapy and the Executive Board of the NAO (FIAP, Italian Federation of Psychotherapy Associations). He is on the editorial board of Quaderni di Gestalt and of Studies in Gestalt Therapy: Dialogical bridges. He has authored articles, chapters, and books in the field of psychiatry and psychotherapy.

November 5 - 6, 2009

Dusan Stojnov

Theme: Discourse Analysis: Portrait of the technique;

The use of Discourse Analysis: Application in psychotherapy

Time: 17:00 – 21:00

November 7 – 8, 2009

Dusan Stojnov

Theme: Exploring the Self in Relations: Constructivist Approach to Self

Time: 13:00 – 20:00

The 'self' has been the subject of many controversies in psychology - from being a core issue at the onset of psychology as a discipline, to being ruthlessly banned by behaviorists and then again becoming a central concern of psychology.

Throughout almost all of this time, the self was treated as an entity residing "under the skin" - as being a private property of an individual. The constructivist approach to psychology has boldly challenged this approach and offers an alternative construction of self, suggesting that the self is 'created' by the individual and that there can be not one but many selves, which are not totally integrated but fragmented. From this point of view, the self is not a structure but a process.

Leading constructivists and constructionists such as Rom Harre, John Shotter, Kenneth Gergen (as well as many other social theorists) have enabled not only different approaches and conceptualizations of the self, but also many different ways of working with the self.  Unfortunately, this work has unfairly neglected the pioneering contribution of George Kelly and his Personal Construct Psychology towards the study of the self.

"Exploring self in relations" is a workshop designed to investigate the self in the context of social forces through the application of Personal Construct Psychology, with the aim of fostering better understanding of people and their construing processes. It includes outlines of different approaches to the self in psychology and psychotherapy and a special techniques of elaboration of the self like Variable Fix Role Technique and Constructivist Rologram (methods developed by distinctive constructivist scholars), which allow analysis of a person's different selves in different social contexts.

Dusan Stojnov is a Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Belgrade and he is President of the Serbian Constructivist Association - http://www.ukons.org.rs