Positive Psychotherapy

Positive psychotherapy (PPT ) (since 1968) the design of the psychotherapeutic approach of Nossrat Peseschkian and employees is called that has this developed from An Iranian Wiesbaden specialist in neurology, psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine and successfully as an independent method of psychotherapy establish. The method belongs to the humanistic psychodynamic psychotherapies.

Overview

It belongs to the humanistic psychologies Deep ( psychodynamic psychotherapy). The basis is the ' positive image of man ', which corresponds to a salutogenetic, resource-oriented, humanistic and focused approach.

The Positive Psychotherapy is a method within the framework of psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is recognized by numerous institutions (among Landesärztekammer Hesse, European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP), the World Council for Psychotherapy ( WCP ), International Federation of Psychotherapy (IFP ) and various national bodies).

It integrates elements and techniques of various psychotherapy methods and used in particular also stories and wisdom from different cultures to stimulate imagination and imagination alternatives in terms of a resource-oriented approach.

The Positive Psychotherapy has a presence in about 33 countries with about 40 independent centers. Since 1977 ( Wiesbaden training circuit for psychotherapy and family therapy ) are doctors, psychologists and educators in the Positive trained psychotherapy, inter alia, in the context of a medical training center. The Wiesbaden Academy for Psychotherapy ( WIAP ) is today one of the leading institutes in the field of state-approved, post-graduate education and training in psychotherapy. Total (as of xxxx) have been trained since 1974 more than 38,000 doctors, psychologists and educators in the method of Positive Psychotherapy and since the late 1980s also thousands of colleagues in Eastern European and Asian countries.

Worldwide, Positive Psychotherapy is the " World Association for Positive Psychotherapy " ( WAPP ) represented. Previous World Congresses on Positive Psychotherapy was held in 1997 in St. Petersburg, Russia, 2000 in Wiesbaden, Germany, 2003 in Varna, Bulgaria, 2007 in Famagusta, Cyprus, and in 2010 in Istanbul, Turkey.

Standardized training programs in the form of Basic and Master courses are held in many countries around the world, such as in Albania, Ethiopia, Bolivia, Bulgaria, China, Kosovo, Austria, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, Cyprus, etc.

In 1997, a study on the quality assurance of Positive Psychotherapy in Germany was completed. The results show the high efficacy of this form of short-term therapy. The study was awarded the Richard -Merten Prize. 2006 was the founder of Positive Psychotherapy, Nossrat Peseschkian, the Federal Cross of Merit.

Procedure

Objectives

The objectives of Positive Psychotherapy are

  • Development of a positive and transcultural approach to Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
  • Education, self-help and prevention
  • Promotion of intercultural understanding
  • Integration of different therapeutic directions

After understanding the positive psychotherapy traditional psychotherapy and medicine are often describable by three criteria:

The Positive Psychotherapy attempts to extend the traditional approach:

Main principles

The three main principles of Positive Psychotherapy are positive, the content and the strategic approach ( principles of hope, balance and guidance):

  • Sleep disorder is the ability to be vigilant and make do with little sleep
  • Depression is the ability to react with emotional depth to conflicts
  • Schizophrenia is the ability to live in two worlds, or to go into a fantasy world
  • Anorexia is the ability to get along with little food and to identify with the hungry of the world.
  • Body-oriented modes
  • Performance-based modes
  • Relational modes
  • Fantasy -oriented modes
  • Overcompensation in the cult of the body ( narcissistic About valence of the body)
  • Decompensation in somatic illness ( somatization, substance-related addictions, risk factors: obesity, etc.)
  • Overcompensation in activity and performance
  • Decompensation in performance and concentration disorders
  • Overcompensation in the sociability
  • Decompensation in the solitude
  • Overcompensation in size fantasies, delusions disorders etc.
  • Decompensation in Sinnlosigkeitserlebnisse, existential fears, etc.

Help Relocations: One way to mobilize the resources of the client instead of persistently to roll old, known issues are stories and proverbs. Stories, parables, parables, wisdom facilitate the positive psychotherapy to mental and emotional change of location - "You can stand on its site, but you should not sit on it. " Resentments and prejudices can be removed by trans-cultural examples and stories. This can be a valuable approach to a change of consciousness. This in turn is a prerequisite for changes in medicine, politics, economy and environment behavior.

People image

The Positive Psychotherapy is the individual development of man in the context of globalization: For the first time in human history a global, networked society is emerging, whose main characteristic is its cultural diversity.

The process of globalization - not only on the political, but also on the mental level - is not without its challenges vonstatten. This is interpreted as a challenge to design the methodology according to the present situation. This requires a change in thinking - from a monocultural and monoätiologischen approach towards a multicultural and multiätiologischen. These experiences and considerations led Peseschkian to the people - to take into account its " trans-cultural " situation, which it first - especially in psychotherapy - to understand not only as an isolated individual, but also his interpersonal relationships and - equal to his own development the do what he is:

The image of man of Positive Psychotherapy can be compared with the humanistic psychology. In contrast to Triebdeterminismus in classical psychoanalysis, or the image of a " human machine" in the classic behavior therapy in humans applies the positive psychotherapy as basically good and healthy.

He has a wealth of skills that are applied like seeds that can be developed through education and self-education and need.

Literature of the founder

Total are 26 books of the founder, translated partly in 23 languages ​​( eg Chinese, Russian, Spanish and English). Furthermore, an extensive secondary literature exists in the form of monographs, dissertations and scientific articles in different cultures.

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