Developmentally Based, Relationally Focused Integrative Psychotherapy: Eight Essential Points

摘要

This closing keynote address was delivered at the International IntegrativePsychotherapy Association’s 9th Biennial Conference, 19-23 March 2019 inMontpellier, France. It describes the history and eight essential points of adevelopmentally based, relationally focused integrative psychotherapy.Therapeutic presence is the concept that unites each of the essential points, whichinclude: the centrality of relationship, awareness of phases of child development,current enactment of the past, attending to the person’s body and unconsciousrelational patterns, the use of child therapy methods with adults, the understandingprovided by the theories of ego states, and facilitating change only after theindividual has an understanding of the function of his or her behavior.