BT06 Workshop 13 – The Problem is the Solution: Symptoms as Identity Transformers – Stephen Gilligan, PhD

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A key idea in Milton Erickson’s work was that a person’s problematic experiences and behaviors can be skillfully accepted and utilized as the basis for therapeutic change. Self-relations psychotherapy develops this idea further, emphasizing symptoms as indicating the death of an old identity and the impending birth of a new identity. Thus, we don’t try to “get rid of” depression, anxiety, or “acting out/acting in” expressions, but instead invite them into a human relationship of “sponsorship”, where their healing and helpful nature may be realized. We will see how a therapist can generate a ritual space where symptoms and other disturbing experiences can be “midwifed” into new identities.

Educational Objectives:

1. To name the basic principles and methods of self-relations psychotherapy.
2. To describe how these methods might be used to transform symptoms into positive solutions and resources.