Western Psychotherapy in an Eastern Context

This chapter reviews the history of psychotherapy in China and the gradual opening to Western ideas about psychotherapy. It details the difficulty of getting a Western mind around what Chinese therapists thought was psychotherapy and the ways in which their understandings only became accessible through working together. Translating the concepts into action, not just language, revealed the points of cultural collision. A workshop and a process group illuminated our shared humanity. A decision about how the recording of the process group was to be used, however, unearthed differing fundamental assumptions about privacy and piracy.

A Brief Moral History of Psychotherapy

To grasp its moral history, psychotherapy’s profoundly and pervasively moral dimensions, its inextricable sociocultural connections, critics’ challenges to moral claims, the historical origins of moral ideas and practices, and some key historical trajectories of psychotherapy are addressed. Connections among professions, professional ethics, and morality (construed broadly); moral understandings of psychological problems and goals; and moral considerations concerning therapy techniques and relationship styles are emphasized. Finally, some changing interrelationships among psychotherapy, the self, society, and morality are reviewed.

A History of Psychotherapy Integration

In this chapter, the authors trace the history of psychotherapy integration from the first attempts at rapprochement in the early twentieth century to the recent developments in the twenty-first century. The authors briefly review major contributions to psychotherapy integration from the 1930s to the 1950s, and then focus on rapprochement beginning in the 1960s through the present. In addition to outlining conceptual and theoretical advances, the authors describe structural developments such as societies, journals, and conferences that have facilitated continued research and dissemination of various models of integration. Finally, the impact of ever-changing research, practice, and social climates on rapprochement is discussed.

Desde la mirada tradicional hacia la mirada sistémico-narrativa. / From the traditional approach towards the systemic-narrative perspective-

Este artículo hace un breve recorrido sobre la historia de la psicoterapia desde la comprensión de la psique entendida al interior del cerebro, siendo hija del paradigma científico, hacia una mirada que entiende al ser humano siendo parte de un sistema y habitando en el lenguaje. Utilizando un caso clínico y aludiendo a la anti-psiquiatría termina mostrando lo complejo del uso de diagnósticos en psicoterapia, proponiendo como alternativa la mirada narrativa que enfatiza la idea de que “el problema es el problema”, el que se puede disolver al significar la experiencia vital de otra manera. This article succinctly illustrates the history of psychotherapy. It starts with the understanding of psyche assumed within the brain, under the scientific paradigm, towards another conception. This new vision recognizes human being as being part of a system and inhabiting language. Using a clinical case and alluding to anti-psychiatry movement the article argue against the use of diagnostics in psychotherapy. It proposes instead the narrative model as an alternative way to intervene. This paradigm emphasizes the idea that the person is not the problem, but “the problem is the problem”, and it may be dissolved by significance life experience in another way.

Overview of Psychotherapy in Psychiatry

Psychotherapy continues to be an integral part of psychiatric practice. The rich, interesting history of psychotherapy in medicine and psychiatry set the background to current practice. Psychoeducation provides patients with necessary information and forms the basic building block for all other psychotherapies. Supportive therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and psychoanalytic/psychodynamic psychotherapies constitute the core of the therapeutic styles, but dialectical behavioral therapy, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, interpersonal psychotherapy, motivational interviewing, hypnosis, and group psychotherapy are also practiced in current psychiatry. Key therapeutic tenets from each of these disciplines are incorporated into the medical practice of psychiatry. This review contains 5 figures, 4 tables, and 63 references. Key words: cognitive-behavioral therapy, current psychiatric practices, dialectical behavioral therapy, psychiatrist as therapist, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy, psychoeducation, psychotherapy, supportive psychotherapy

The History Of Psychotherapy. Lecture 2. Historical Background Of Psychotherapy (Part IV)

The paper continues the cycle of lectures by Igor Borisovitch Grinshpun on history of psychotherapy. The current part of the lecture recounts the work of American psychologist and philosopher William James. His main works “The Principles of Psychology” and “The Varieties of Religious Experience” are discussed, his ideas on consciousness and personality are considered, and their influence on psychology and psychotherapy is traced. This lecture takes stock of the historical background of psychotherapy and makes a summary of the main events of the 19th century, which either influenced psychotherapy directly or proved significant to the development of psychotherapy. Students and colleagues of I.B. Grinshpun prepared the text for publication: Yana Bovbas, Ekaterina Mazaeva, Maria Marchenkova.