What Is the Common Ground for Modern Psychotherapy? A Discussion Paper Based on EACLIPT's 1st Webinar.

Psychotherapy as it is implemented today, can be seen as the composition of unconnected groups of practitioners and scientists pursuing different theories. The idea of finding a common "umbrella" for all evidence-based treatments in the field of psychotherapy is gaining more interest. Based on this background, experts in clinical psychology from various backgrounds led a fundamental discussion about modern psychotherapy and its basic mechanisms.

A campus wellness program: accepting the challenge.

The federal government challenges universities to promote health and prevent illness by creating awareness of health issues and encouraging healthy practices. Establishing a wellness program on campus is a means to provide excellence in health care for students and a way to reach out to faculty and the community at large. In this paper, the authors explicate the process of a multidisciplinary, collaborative effort in a university to develop a wellness program.

Truth and falsity in group.

The universal tension and juxtaposition between truth seeking and truth evasion are explored in a contemporary relational context, drawing on Bion 's later ideas on group. Bion's key idea of "psi," or psychic evasiveness, refocuses group theory, supplementing intra- and inter-psychic perspectives with sociopolitical analysis. To some extent the psychotherapy group exists as a political "Establishment" and thus corresponds to psi.