[Audio Only] BT06 Workshop 45 – Bad Therapy: Lessons from Prominent Therapists and Famous Clients – Jeffrey Kottler, PhD

Description:

Based on interviews with over a hundred of the most prominent theoreticians in the field, as well as studies of famous individuals (Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, Sylvia Plath, Vaslav Nijinsky, Lenny Bruce, Charles Mingus) who have had spectacularly negative outcomes in therapy, this workshop explores what can be learned from failures as well as successes. Participants will explore the nature of their own consistent errors and misjudgments, how we all tend to deny and disown these experiences, and what we can do to be more accepting of our failures and more proactive in preventing them in the future. There will be opportunities to identify personal and professional struggles that are going on right now and work through impasses and frustrations through a peer supervision model that can be applied to any work setting.

Educational Objectives:

1. To describe two lessons that can be learned from the worst sessions of the best therapists.
2. To describe two ways to become more strategic and systematic in supervision and self-supervision to process therapeutic disappointments.

*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*