Course participants will have the opportunity to adopt a model guided by the inherent human need/need for relationship, as well as, in some cases, the need for contradictory individuation as a lifelong challenge.

Starting from the integrated comparative theory of personality, we will explore:

– How do we access the importance of the phenomenology of client action?

– How can we understand the essential life challenges that underlie the pathology of personality disorders?

– What are more functional coping and adaptation mechanisms for other and different character styles?

– How to approach these issues with compassion and empathy in the process of psychotherapy?

From the first phone call to the last session, we create a shared narrative throughout our client relationship.

– What information do these stories provide about our client's specific developmental tragedies?

– How do we build a consistent comparative theoretical foundation that helps in diagnosis, psychotherapy planning, and subsequent clinical intervention?

– Several integrative models will be used as examples of a comparative approach to assessment and diagnosis. Participants will reflect on their practice with clients in small groups.

– Presentation and supervision of cases will be possible. 

Objectives and program of the training course

 

– Clear understanding of integrated personality theories;

– Understanding the framework of the integrated comparative approach to personality;

– Understanding the topics included in the integrated framework:

a. attachment theory;

b. object relation theory;

c. Self-psychology and the theory of intersubjectivity;

d. Gestalt therapy;

e. character analysis;

f. Contemporary developmental and neurobiological theories, including interpersonal neurobiology.

Clinical knowledge and skills

 

– Understanding of the phenomenological integrated comparative approach to personality;

– Ability to use this approach in clinical work with clients:

– Assessment using a phenomenological interdisciplinary approach;

– Diagnosis, differentiation of personality styles and disorders according to three clusters (A, B, C);

– Drawing up a psychotherapeutic treatment plan based on assessment and diagnosis and a deep understanding of the given parameters:

– What main life factors led to the formation and maintenance of character and/or personality disorder?

– What are the more functional coping and adaptation mechanisms for each personality type?

– How to be and show compassion and empathy in the process of psychotherapy?

– Participants will get to know the guidelines of practical work with other and other clients and will practice specific clinical skills during the seminar process;

– They will have the opportunity to present their own cases for consideration, to undergo supervision.

After completing the course, students will be able to

 

1. Formulation of a coherent vision of the person;

2. An argumentative explanation of the integration of the selected development theories in one's own approach to personality assessment and diagnosis;

3. Have an understanding of the phenomenological integrated comparative approach to assessment, diagnosis and psychotherapy planning and a clear vision of what information it provides for their clinical practice;

4. Will be able to reflect on clients in terms of an integrated framework and use it in their own clinical work.

Course structure

 

Module I:

– Presentation and framework of the integrated model;

– Presentation of personality disorders A (paranoid, schizoid and schizotypal) and C (addictive, dependent and obsessive-compulsive) clusters.

Module II:

– Further in-depth research and application of the integrated framework;

– Presentation of cluster B personality disorders (borderline and narcissistic).

Training-certification course format:

Teaching, personal reflection, sharing in small groups, case study, supervision.