These videotapes are a documentary of a client’s resistance, not just to psychotherapy, but to life itself.  They also show the subjective of experience as the proper realm for true depth psychotherapy. 

Bugental has been a leading spokesman for existential-humanistic psychotherapy since the publication in 1965 of his ground-breaking book The Search for Authenticity.  Since then he has published other classics including Psychotherapy and Process and The Art of the Psychotherapist.

This production features Eugene Gendlin, Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago, demonstrating a therapeutic technique called Focusing, described in his book by the same name.

In this videotape you will see how the founder of this technique works with two people, illustrating the six steps of the process. The demonstration attempts to show how the client thinks and feels in  response to Gendlin's gentle probing.

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The integrative approach, London believes, involves two dimensions—what therapists are able to do, and what therapists are called on to do.  What they are called on to do in our society of anonymity and alienation, he believes, is a great deal more than alleviation of
symptoms. 

In London's interview with the client, he suggests that her problems with shyness can probably by ameliorated through a number of behavioral and cognitive techniques, but her loneliness in her marriage and her fear that she is "not very interesting" would require a more in-depth exploration into her personal and existential concerns.

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1-19 Integrative Psychotherapy, A Six-Part Series
Part 3 - A Demonstration with Dr. Gerald Davison
1989. VHS. Color
43:00 minutes
Psychological & Educational Films

Davison describes himself as a Cognitive Therapist with training in Behavior Therapy.  Cognitive Therapy, inherently phenomenological, is compatible with humanistic approaches, he says.

In his integrative approach he uses empathy and interpretation in the Rogerian sense and has been influenced by Gestalt therapy's emotional component.  What questions the therapist asks and how those questions are framed are crucial in an assessment interview, Davison believes, because they affect how the problem gets formulated and how the therapy plan is designed.

His well-formulated questions and empathic manner with the client quickly lead to a productive session.

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1-20 Integrative Psychotherapy, A Six-Part Series
Part 4 - A Demonstration with Dr. Paul Wachtel
1989.  VHS.  Color
48:28 minutes
Psychological & Educational Films

Wachtel's integrative approach is primarily psychodynamic but includes behavior and family systems approaches. His theory deals with the internal state of the client and how that state is translated outwardly into behaviors that affect others. Those effects evoke responsive behaviors in others that in turn, perpetuate them in the client in what Wachtel calls "vicious circles".

Wachtel works to identify, not only the client's fears, patterns, and vicious circles that characterize her relationship with her husband, but to find her strengths, which Wachtel says are the kernels from which she can build virtuous circles to overcome the vicious ones.

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1-21  Integrative Psychotherapy - A Six-Part Series
Part 5 - A Demonstration with Dr. Leslie Greenberg
1989. VHS video. Color
47:30 minutes
Psychological & Educational Films

Emotion-focused therapy, a Process Experiential Approach, is what Greenberg calls his integrative method.  It comes originally, he says, from an integration of Client Centered and Gestalt therapy systems. 

His method emphasizes emotional processes as a complex integration on different levels of information processing — of affect, of cognition, of physiology.  Change in therapy, he believes, involves freeing up and reorganizing emotional processes. Words alone cannot effect change, he believes, but moment by moment experiencing can. 

He demonstrates his theories with the client in a moving session.

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1-22 Integrative Psychotherapy - A Six-Part Series
Part 6 - A Demonstration with Dr. Donald Meichenbaum
1989. VHS video. Color
44:15 minutes
Psychological & Educational Films

Meichenbaum says Cognitive-Behavior Modification is a system that attempts to integrate psychodynamic and systemically oriented psychotherapies with Behavior Therapy. It is involved in various levels of integration and deals with the interaction between the patient's thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and resultant consequences ---what Bandura calls reciprocal determinism of the various processes.

Meichenbaum believes that the way a person interacts with others contributes to his or her problems, and that the collaborative relationship between the client and the therapist can help the client build new methods of behavior with others.  Through a series of questions and comments, Meichenbaum skillfully draws the client into a productive and enlightening self-analysis of her thoughts, feelings and behaviors in her relationships with her husband and with others.

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Lowen and Bioenergetic Therapy
A two-part series
VHS video.  Color
48 minutes
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5-7 Psychotherapy with the Unmotivated Patient
Featuring Erving Polster, Ph.D.
DVD.  Color
1 hour 21 minutes
Instructor's Version.  Includes Training Manual
from Victor Yalom, Psychotherapy.Net

1-26 Relationships
Psychodynamic Therapy with Dr. Hans H. Strupp
1989. VHS. Color
38 minutes
Psychological & Educational Films

Focusing on the concerns of interpersonal relationships and the maladaptive patterns that permeate the client's unsatisfactory alliances with others, Strupp demonstrates Psychodynamic Therapy with a young woman.  By the means of a "voice-over, freeze-frame recording", we are able to hear Strupp analyze the key points of the interview -- a way to "overhear" his thoughts as he forms and explores his clinical impressions of the client and attempts to stimulate her participation in the psychotherapeutic relationship.

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1-32 Three Approaches to Psychotherapy I
Part 1 - Carl Rogers
1965. DVD. Color
Closed Captioned
47:52 minutes
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Perhaps the most complex and engaging of Carl Rogers’ filmed demonstrations of Client Centered Therapy with a real client, this video has inspired and instructed generations of students. Gloria's conflict between her feelings, her beliefs, and her actions (a universal human experience) and her personal "utopia" when she is not in conflict, but "all in one piece," are all heard and understood by Rogers.
The value of any approach relies largely on the skill of the person who employs it, as Rogers so ably demonstrates.  

The video includes Rogers describing his system of psychotherapy and practice, his interview with the client, and his comments about the session.

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1-33 Three Approaches to Psychotherapy I
Part 2 - Frederick Perls
1965. DVD. Color
Closed Captioned
31:58

With a goal similar to Rogers’, to help Gloria find her own way, Frederick Perls uses an entirely different approach he calls Gestalt Therapy.  The Gestalt technique, he says, is to frustrate the client as a way to draw out the authentic person and to strip away the phony roles and games the client has perfected over a lifetime.

Indeed, Perls frustrates the Gloria.  Through her frustration and anger, confusing as it may seem to her at the time, she is perhaps able to express her truest thoughts and feelings, to be real and to live in the here and now.

The video includes Perls describing his system of psychotherapy and practice, his interview with the client, and his comments about the session.

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1-34 Three Approaches to Psychotherapy I
Part 3 - Albert Ellis
1965.  DVD.  Color
Closed Captioned
36:08 minutes
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Albert Ellis challenges the client's absolutes—her "awfulizing" and "catastrophizing"—that make her feel so unhappy with herself and that sabotage her relationships with others.  He tells her that the irrational things she says to herself cause her negative feelings and her consequent behaviors. She begins to discover that she can correct her irrational thoughts and reverse her negative feelings and behaviors.

The video includes Ellis describing his system of psychotherapy and practice, his interview with the client, and his comments about the session.  

In conclusion, the client and Shostrom discuss her experience with each of the three therapists.

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1-35 Three Approaches to Psychotherapy II
 Part 1 - Carl Rogers
1977. DVD. Color
Closed Captioned
44:42 minutes
Psychological & Educational Films

As in Three Approaches to Psychotherapy I, Rogers conducts the first therapy session of the three demonstrations, this time with the client Kathy.  He stays closely with her as she explores her experiences and feelings in their various manifestations.  He is with her each step in  the single-mindedness of his attention to her.  He allows her to set the pace of the session and to define her experiences and the feelings they engender.  "Clients learn more that way," Rogers says.

Kathy slowly reveals her fears, often employing humor and metaphor to distance herself from a pain that might otherwise be overwhelming.

The video includes Rogers describing his system of psychotherapy and practice, his interview with the client, and his comments about the session.

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1-36 Three Approaches to Psychotherapy II
Part 2 - Everett Shostrom
1977. DVD. Color
Closed Captioned
45:20 minutes
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The client Kathy says she is working really hard in this session with Shostrom as he attempts to engage the emotional aspects of her being as they are experienced in the body.

Using Bioenergetic techniques, Shostrom helps her to renew her self-awareness on the polarities of love and anger, weakness and strength.

The video includes Shostrom describing his system of psychotherapy and practice, his interview with the client, and his comments about the session.

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1-37 Three Approaches to Psychotherapy II
Part 3 - Arnold Lazarus 
1977. DVD. Color
Closed Captioned
46 minutes
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Working with Lazarus, the client Kathy learns about and goes through the modalities of  Lazarus' "BASIC-ID": behavior, affect, sensation, imagery and cognition to discover the things in each she wants to change in herself.

Lazarus uses role-playing as one technique to challenge her self-denigrating viewpoint and her self-defeating behaviors.  He presents alternate views and patterns for her consideration, and by identifying her strengths with concrete examples he has observed in her, he reinforces them. 

The video includes Lazarus describing his system of psychotherapy and practice, his interview with the client, and his comments about the session.

In conclusion, the client reviews her experience with each of the three therapists.

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1-38 Three Approaches to Psychotherapy III
Part 1 - Hans H. Strupp (Psychodynamic Therapy)
1986. DVD. Color
Closed Captioned
45.32 minutes
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Strupp views a patient's problems as disturbances in interpersonal relationships and says that patients rigidly cling to the past, and they do so by cyclical maladaptive patterns.  The therapist’s role is to help the patient explore the ramifications of the pattern in the patient's current life and to provide a new relationship that can, at the very least, help to mitigate earlier damage.

Strupp skillfully draws the scenarios from the client Richard that help to identify the client's maladaptive patterns.

The video includes Strupp describing his system of psychotherapy and practice, his interview with the client, and his comments about the session.

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1-39  Three Approaches to Psychotherapy III
Part 2 - Donald Meichenbaum (Cognitive-Behavior Modification)
1986. DVD. Color
Closed Captioned
46:36 minutes
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Meichenbaum says his system is an attempt to integrate the clinical concerns of Psychodynamic therapists and Cognitive-Semantic therapists with the technology of Behavior Therapy.  He says that behavior is a reflection of several processes including the kinds of thoughts, feelings and internal dialogues of the client.  The therapist's job, he says, is to help the client become aware of each of these processes, the recurring behavior patterns the client emits in differing situations, and the reactions the client elicits in others. 

Meichenbaum helps the client Richard view the effect he has on others as evidence of his behavior, and to examine the options open to him.

The video includes Meichenbaum describing his system of psychotherapy and practice, his interview with the client,
and his comments about the session.

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1-40 Three Approaches to Psychotherapy III
Part 3 - Aaron T. Beck (Cognitive Therapy) 
1986. DVD. Color
Closed Captioned
46:19 minutes
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Beck, the "father" of Cognitive Therapy and its primary leader, is noted for his work with anxiety and depression.  Cognitive therapy, in part, he says, deals with the thoughts, the negative things we tell ourselves, that lead to bad feelings and clinical symptoms.

Beck teaches the client Richard how to identify his own negative thoughts and to rebut them to help his anxiety and depression.

The video includes Beck describing his system of psychotherapy and practice, his interview with the client, and his comments about the session.

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5-3 Treating Alcoholism in Psychotherapy with Stephanie Brown, Ph.D.  Volume I:  The Developmental Model in Action
DVD. Color
2 hours 20 minutes. Two Discs
Instructor's Version. Includes Training Manual
from Victor Yalom, Ph.D., Psychotherapy.net

In this therapy session, Stephanie Brown is treating "Ted," a 48 year-old manager who initially denies that his drinking is related to problems at home and on the job.  While skillfully fostering the therapeutic alliance, Brown gently but persistently focuses the treatment on the central role of alcohol in Ted's life.  The four developmental phases of treatment are shown -- drinking, transition, early recovery and ongoing recovery in the dramatic re-enactment of key moments in seven outpatient sessions over a period of five years.

Brown's interventions and commentary clarify such crucial concepts of working with denial and resistance, making Alcoholics Anonymous a cornerstone of the treatment, and the changing roles of the therapist throughout the development stages.

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5-4 Treating Alcoholism in Psychotherapy with Stephanie Brown, Ph.D.  Volume II:  The Developmental Model in Theory:  A Live Workshop
DVD. Color
1 hour 26 minutes
Instructor's Version. Includes Training Manual
from Victor Yalom, Ph.D., Psychotherapy.net

Brown summarizes in a lecture before an audience her ground-breaking research that led to the developmental model, then leads the viewer through the four stages of alcoholism recovery and defines the key tasks that face the therapist and client during each phase.

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