Re: Accelerated Learning and Positive Templates (An Adlerian Perspective)

(.....I would love to hear from any clinicians who feel they can articulate what specific experiences they attempt to orchestrate clinically to allow clients to gain these important abilities. ....)

You might find it interesting to check "Providing the Missing Developmental Experience in Classical Adlerian Psychotherapy" at http://go.ourworld.nu/hstein/provid.htm . The diagnostic strategies include the use of earliest childhood recollections and eidetic images; the therapeutic strategies include guided imagery, role-playing, and narration.

"There may be times in the course of individual psychotherapy when clients have sufficient insight, but appear to lack the inner resources needed for a breakthrough to a new level of functioning. When we look into the early childhoods of these clients, we often find deficiencies (real and imagined) of parental acceptance, support, love, encouragement, respect, or even positive challenge. For some of these clients, a well-timed, precise, and vivid simulation of a missing developmental experience (MDE) is able to give them the internal fortification that they need to break out of a narrow rut of limited functioning into an expansive, creative way of living."

The MDE technique is used in the context of the twelve stages of Classical Adlerian psychotherapy. Since we believe that many symptoms, images, memories, and private logic are driven by an unconscious, fictional, final goal, that goal may need to be uncovered and dissolved. For an overview of our approach, see "Classical Adlerian Theory and Practice" at http://go.ourworld.nu/hstein/theoprac.htm .

A pre-congress workshop, "Providing the Missing Developmental Experience," will be offered on Monday, August 2nd, 1999 at the International Association of Individual Psychology Congress in Chicago. It will be presented by Henry T. Stein, Ph.D. and Martha E. Edwards, Ph.D. For registration information about the entire congress scheduled August 2-7, visit http://go.ourworld.nu/hstein/iaip2.htm .

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