David Forrest: Gestaltuk
Anthony Jannetti, Ph.D.
Anthony is an international presenter and clinician of the Richard Erskine Developmentally Based Relationally Focused Integrative Psychotherapy. He has worked with Richard Erskine from the time when Richard created the residential training centre in Kent, New York, which was over 40 years ago.
About Anthony the Clinical Supervisor, Trainer, and Clinician
Anthony holds a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology Research Practioner.
He is a Supervisory member and Trainer for the International Association of Integrative Psychotherapy (IIPA) and is the current Chair of the Certification and Standards Committee of IIPA.
He is an international presenter who has given lectures and trainings in Europe and USA
He has trained in Transactional Analysis, Gestalt Therapy, and Object Relations Theory, and holds a Master's degree in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in addition to his PhD work.
Anthony has his own private practice in San Francisco, California and has worked in hospitals, children's centers, drug and alcohol clinics, and on post-traumatic stress programs
His well-rounded experience in psychotherapy allows Anthony to bring a wealth of skills and interventions to his work in Clinical Supervision of psychotherapists, and to the teaching on Supervisor Training programmes. This work is presented with humour, compassion and sensitivity for the therapeutic process.
Workshop Content may include
The Experiential workshops will seek to offer content that may include the following elements:
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Workshops may be organised over a single day or up to 5 days
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Workshops will qualify of CPD hours recognised by IIPA (Europe and USA); with UKCP in the UK, and EAP in Europe and the UK.
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experience the relational group process
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Live demonstrations followed by dialogue
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In-depth interpsychic work will take place, allowing participants to observe how to access and work with a person's script to produce script redecision.
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The integration of various theories will be taught, such as: Transactional Analysis Therapy (TA), Gestalt Therapy, and Child Developmental Theory among others.
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The therapist's use of self will be emphasized, teaching participants how to develop their own working style with clients.
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Concepts such as parent interviews and regression work may be addressed
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Opportunities will exist for some participants to work therapeutically with Anthony.
Teaching Subjects
​Topics taught not limited, but include:
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The keyhole
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Relational group process
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Treatment of the parent/introjection ego state
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Regression
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The schizoid process
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Relational needs
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The hyphen system
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Defense mechanisms
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Transference and Countertransference
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The therapist's use of self in treating clients
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Therapeutic errors
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Supervision of Supervision
Integrative Psychotherapy Approach
written by David Forrest​
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Clarity is needed when referring to Integrative Psychotherapy, particularly in the UK. where the term covers a wide scope of ecletic approaches that disguises and distorts the true nature of the therapeutic approach of the clinician. When ascertaining the clinical approach of a UK trained Integrative Psychotherapist it is best to enquire of the training organisation or university plus the modality of the trainer/educator. Only with this information is it possible to determine clinician's theoretical approach. For example I taught a UKCP Master's Integrative Psychotherapy programme of study and thus my students were trained in Gestalt Psychotherapy Theory and Richard Erskine's Contact-in-Relationship approach to therapy. Other programmes of study in adjacent universities included Integrative Psychotherapy based on Psychodynamic theory, another of Cognitive Behavioural Theory, and another based on Person Cented Theory.​​​
Richard Erskine's Contact-in-Relationships
​Essential to this approach is the seminal text, Beyond Empathy: A Therapy of Contact in Relationship, (sponsored link). In this book, authored with Janet Moursund and Rebecca Trautmann, the theory of the therapeutic approach unfolds in a readable and informative style.
In my view the time has arrived that this 'Beyond Empathy' approach be promoted as beyond integrative in its approach. My desire is to reclassify Richard Erskine's Integrative Psychotherapy using the current promotional language of a Developmentally Based and Relationally Focussed Psychotherapy; or maybe Contact-in-Relationships Psychotherapy: A Developmentally and Relationally Integrated Therapeutic Approach. Of course I have no authority in this regard and this narration is to support the seperation of the Richard Erskine approach from the generic labelled approaches that abound in the UK.
Of course standing on different platform Contact-in-Relationships is fully recognised through the International Integrative Psychotherapy Association - IIPA. Additionally the website of Richard Erskine promotes the material of a number of writers, institute for integrative psychotherapy
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This page will promote Contact-in-Relationships and also reference the approach as a Developmentally Based and Relationally Focussed Psychotherapy (at least).