 Hi, this is Bob Cook. I'm going to talk about integrative psychotherapy for the internet channel TA therapy. This model is an integrative model that Richard Erskine put forward in his books and writings from 1988. One I particularly like. So what is integrative psychotherapy? From his ideas. Firstly, that you help the client integrate their cut-off, fragmented parts of the self which they're unaware of. So they take ownership of the whole. Secondly, this form of integrative psychotherapy borrows from Freud's psychoanalytical ideas. Through to the humanistic ideas of Rogers, Eric Berlin transaction analysis, Gestalt psychotherapy and of course later self psychology. Erskine's major two beliefs for integrative psychotherapy. West on a commitment to positive life change and of course the respect for the integrity of the client. In terms of theories, of course, Erskine talks about a theory of motivation which lies beneath integrative psychotherapy in terms of the relationship, the need for the relationship being the primary motivating force of human behavior, which replaces of course in some ways the drive theory of Freud's ideas. Okay, you know his ideas of drive theory, which then provide anxiety. And so from integrative psychotherapy, the need for relationship and if there's interruptions to relationship will bring anxiety. Of course, another part of this is the need for structure and the need for stimulus. The model or the personality model he takes from Eric Bern's idea of eager state, which form up for for burns ideas of transaction analysis. But anyway, the major idea is that we have three parts of the south, the parent eager state, the adult eager state and the child eager state and they form the personality. So every moment of the day, you'll be coming from three parts of yourself, as I said, per adult child and integrative psychotherapy. You'll be helping the client form a healthy integrated self. Okay, another way of assessment they look at from an integrative point of view is the different domains of the self, which we as can talks the cognitive domain, the behavioral domain, the affect domain, which is the emotional domain in some ways, and the physical domain. And then when you're working with somebody, this is good assessment model really in terms of where you're going to start, where you're going to aim the therapy. But let's not forget that we need to look at this in terms of a system and that if you change the cognitive or help the person be aware of cognitive processes, which they need to change, of course, that will have an effect on emotional aspects and behavioral aspects and physical aspects. Within the whole self in many ways. In terms of methods, they have three major methods, inquiry, attunement and involvement methodology. So they use these methods to help really come alongside the child, parent, parts of the client. Inquiry is really asking questions. And there's two particular types, historical questions, you know, how, you know, why is this and how does the past affect the present and those sorts of questions. Phenomenological and more is how do you feel about that? How does that affect that? Attunement is looking at coming alongside the client again, paying attention to their different rhythms. Their different developmental levels that coming from. And of course, relational needs, which we'll talk about later. Another method is to be around involvement in terms of normalization, which we'll talk about later, and validation acknowledgement. A big part of theory of integrative psychotherapy is around relational needs. You remember early on, I said that the primary motivating factor for the human organism is to be in relationship. And as those relational needs or the emotional needs, perhaps that are being met in a relationship, get thwarted, then there'll be interruptions to contact. And there'll be emotionally deficits if you like. So we're asking in this model talks about looking at relational needs that perhaps need attending to in terms of emotional health. And he's got the need for security, the need for self-definition, the need to be valued, acceptance by dependable other, the need for further mutuality, and of course the need to initiate and need to make an impact. And if those relational needs are met, then the person will defend and act out in certain ways. So therapists will be always aware of attending to those emotional needs as they come up in the therapy. Okay, in integrative psychotherapy, they'll always be looking for the script system. Another way to look at this is how the person organizes the self in terms of a early life plan, or an early template, in terms of the decisions they've made about themselves, others in the world, early on in life, which become an unconscious life plan, which they then carry out with the beginning, middle and end, and then act in the present. So if you can help the person become aware of their life plan, or their script as we're talking about here, or their script system, then you can help the person change parts of that script system if need be to develop a more healthy life plan today. So in terms of organizing the self under integrative psychotherapy, the theory is that the person very early on makes decisions about self, others of the world, expresses feelings at the time of those early decisions, and I've got some of the feelings there they might repress, and looking for how they might reinforce all the behavioral displays that might be played out in the reinforcing of the script. And I've got three areas that any therapist would explore when looking at script, and then looking at repeated experiences to confirm that script and how they're enacted out today.