SPECIAL EVENTS
In addition to offering
regular opportunities to hear and interact with
a variety of professionals through the department colloquium series
and other sponsored speakers, the Department of
Psychology and Miami University have also recently
been host to some special events. These events
have provided students and faculty with many opportunities
for continued learning and professional development.
James Hillman on Psychotherapy
Back to Basics
October 14, 2006
In this workshop, Hillman comes back to basics—that is, back to psychotherapy in the 21 st century. Central to Hillman's re-visioning of the psychotherapy process is his theory of character and calling in human development. His text, The Soul's Code, was an international best seller. His talk will elaborate the ongoing relevance of these ideas for professional practice. His subjects will be characteristically multiple, ranging over dreams, depression, emotion, religious paranoia, psychopathic persons, aging, multi-cultural diversity, and Jung’s relevance for the present age. Along the way, he will share some of his latest thinking on such basics as the symptom, the initial interview, the case history, counter-transference, family and the ancestors, and supervision. Learn more
2006 Conference of the Ohio Society for Psychotherapy
Research
The
Ohio Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) Conference
was hosted by SPR members at Miami University in
April of 2006. It will be hosted at Miami University again in 2007 on April 13-15. This annual event has also
recently been hosted by SPR members at Ohio University
in Athens, Ohio. This student designed, organized,
and administrated three-day academic conference
provides a forum for graduate students, faculty,
and undergraduates to present and discuss current
work in psychotherapy research.
Presenters from a
variety of theoretical orientations (cognitive-behavioral,
psychodynamic, humanistic, systems) are welcome.
Conference presentations address empirical, theoretical,
and methodological issues in current psychotherapy
research and incorporate innovative or controversial
research paradigms, including both quantitative
and qualitative methodologies. Specific presentation
topics have included outcome and outcome-prediction
studies; clinical trials; change process research;
case studies; psychometric measure development
studies; and meta-analyses. Presentations take
place in an intimate and focused small-group format
encouraging rich and detailed feedback from colleagues.
