VABILO NA DELAVNICO - IPSA

INVITATION TO THE INTERNATIONAL
PSYCHOTHERAPY WORKSHOP
UNCONSCIOUS PROCESSES, TRANSFERENCE
AND THERAPEUTIC AWARENESS
PhD RICHARD ERSKINE (USA)
The Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling from Ljubljana kindly invites you to
attend a 5 days workshop, titled The Unconscious processes, Transference and Therapeutic
Awareness, led by psychotherapist Richard Erskine, President of the International Integrative
Psychotherapy Association. In collaboration with some other psychotherapists, Richard Erskine has
developed the Integrative Psychotherapy, which incorporates Transactional Analysis, contemporary
Psychoanalytic Therapy, Gestalt Therapy and other schools of psychotherapy. The aim of integrative
psychotherapy is integration of emotional, cognitive, behaviouristic and physiological systems of the
individual, with an awareness of the social and spiritual aspects. The therapeutic relationship plays
the central role in such psychotherapy process.
In-depth psychotherapy involves making what is unconscious, conscious. Presymbolic experience,
implicit memory and repressed explicit memory all constitute unconscious process that are enacted
through transference. This workshop will explore various aspects of unconscious psychological
functions, different understandings of transference and a variety of therapetic methods.
Methods of work used at the workshop: lectures, experiential work, therapy demonstrations,
supervision.
The workshop is intended for professionals who:
• Deals with psychotherapy professionaly or works as a counsellor
• Is enrolled in psychotherapy training
• Is interested in taking up training from Integrative Psychotherapy or Transactional Analysis
After the workshop, all participants will receive a certificate of participation. The training will be
acknowledged internationally as study hours for students of Integrative Psychotherapy and
Transactional Analysis.
The workshop will be delivered in English.
Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy and Counseling, Ljubljana. Stegne 7, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, Europe
tel./fax: 386 (0)1 511 10 29; Mobile: 386 (0)41 903 974; e-mail: info@institut-ipsa.si; www.institut-ipsa.si

ABOUT THE LECTURER:
Dr. Richard Erskine, USA. Richard is a clinical psychologist, Director of the Institute for
Integrative Psychotherapy in New York and the President of the International Integrative
Psychotherapy Association. His development of the integrative approach to psychotherapy has been
influenced by various psychotherapy schools, among others Transactional Analysis, Psychoanalysis,
Gestalt Therapy and Body Therapy. He received two prestigious Berne Awards within the
International Transactional Analysis Association:
- with Marilyn Zalcman he received an award for developing the Racket system
- with Rebecca Trautmann he received an award for integration of Transactional Analysis with
other psychotherapeutic approaches.
He is the author and co-author of several articles in international psychotherapy journals, and books
from the field of Integrative Psychotherapy and Transactional Analysis:
- Integrative Psychotherapy in Action (1988)
- Theories and Methods of an Integrative Transactional Analysis (1997)
- Beyond Empathy – A Therapy of Contact-in-Relationship (1999)
- Integrative Psychotherapy: The Art and Science of Relationship (2004).
You can find more about Richard Erskine on his homepage:http://www.integrativetherapy.com/
START: Thursday, 14 June 2007, 10.00 END: Monday, 18 June 2007, 17.30
WHERE: Institute IPSA, Stegne 7, Ljubljana, Slovenia (www.institut-ipsa.si)
Accommodation is possible in numerous hotels in Ljubljana. Please contact us for the list of
accommodations.
Workshop admission fee: 480 € (20% VAT included) (payable on account of Institute IPSA. Bank:
NLB, d.d., Ljubljana. IBAN: SI 56 02032-0254270905; SWIFT: LJBASI2X )
APPLICATIONS AND INFORMATION:
Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy
and Counselling, Ljubljana
Stegne 7, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
℡: 386 (0)41 903 974; fax: 386 (0)1 511 10 29
: info@institut-ipsa.si ; Web: www.institut-ipsa.si