Object Relations Child Therapy (Child Therapy with the Experts Series)

David Scharff, MD

Watch renowned Object Relations psychotherapist David Scharff in an actual counseling session with an 11-year old boy who is grieving the death of his grandmother. In Dr. Scharff’s approach, the parent-child relationship is the central concern, with particular attention paid to the representation of that relationship in the child’s mind. Using talk and art therapy techniques, Scharff demonstrates in this video how to reach the internal world of a child.

Time Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy

Hanna Levenson, PhD

Dr. Levenson, a leading proponent of Time-Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy (TLDP) takes the viewer through the highlights of a 20-session course of therapy and illustrates how to develop and maintain a focus of treatment, intervene, and terminate in a time-effective manner. She demonstrates how TLDP integrates psychodynamic, interpersonal, cognitive-behavioral, and system approaches, and is especially useful for patients with chronic and pervasive interpersonal difficulties.

Down Every Year: A Demonstration of Depth Oriented Brief Therapy

Bruce Ecker, MFT

In this video you see an actual therapy session, conducted by Depth Oriented Brief Therapy co-originator Bruce Ecker, MFT. Watch as a male client discovers how major past and current life themes generate his baffling annual depression. In a single session, Ecker masterfully leads him into a deep exploration and reassessment by using a variety of simple but highly effective techniques to discover unconscious emotional truth.