Anthony Jannetti: Clinician, Supervisor, Trainer of Richard Erskine Contact in Relationships Therapy
- David Forrest
- 8 hours ago
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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.
GestaltUK is hosting an initial webpage in preparation for extending the information and resourcing of the work Anthony is being asked to do in Europe.
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 appraoch will be experiential in nature
Workshops may be organised over a single day or up to 5 days
Workshops will qualify of CPD hours recognised by IIPA (Europe and USA); with UKCP in the UK, and EAP in Europe and the UK.
experience the relational group process
Live demonstrations followed by dialogue
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.
The integration of various theories will be taught, such as: Transactional Analysis Therapy (TA), Gestalt Therapy, and Child Developmental Theory among others.
The therapist's use of self will be emphasized, teaching participants how to develop their own working style with clients.
Concepts such as parent interviews and regression work may be addressed
Opportunities will exist for some participants to work therapeutically with Anthony.
Anthony has presents all aspects of Integrative Psychotherapy as developed by Richard Erskine and has participated in developmental and relational workshops with Richard Erskine. In the course of Anthony's involvement he has include topics that include
The keyhole
Relational group process
Treatment of the parent/introjection ego state
Regression
The schizoid process
Relational needs
The hyphen system
Defense mechanisms
Transference and Countertransference
The therapist's use of self in treating clients
Therapeutic errors
Supervision of Supervision
The contextual framework is:
Richard Erskine's Contact-in-Relationships
a Developmentally Based and Relationally Focussed Psychotherapy
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
This page will promote Contact-in-Relationships and also reference the approach as a Developmentally Based and Relationally Focussed Psychotherapy (at least).
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