Pszichoterápia
A PROFESSIONAL JOURNAL OF PRACTICVE BASED ON PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC METHODS
A quarterly publication 27th year, issue 1, February 2018
Contents
Editorial
Noémi Berger, Márta Takácsy
ARTICLES
Methodological study
Zsuzsa Marlok, Gábor Pál Török: ‘Mental landscape’. Representing the inner landscape on the table stage
Questions of practice
Andrea Kövesdi: Groups of symbol therapy on Psychotherapeutic Weekends 2007–2016
Overview
Katalin N. Kollár, Éva Szabó, Judit Paskuné Kiss: School psychology from the point of view of methodological centres
Pearls
András Stark: Short-intensive psychotherapy starting in suicide crisis
TEAM WORK
Questions and answers – Tamás Bagotai ♦ Dániel Kozma-Vízkeleti ♦ Márta Porkoláb ♦ Erika Tóth ♦ Gabriella Vizin
Special book review
Gábor Szőnyi: Reread from the distance of four decades: therapeutic community and large group
Work presentation
„Ins and outs of Skype-therapy” – The questions of VOIP therapy practice in psychotherapy and counselling. Colloquium of the journal of Psychotherapy – Lili Valkó
PROFESSIONAL LIFE
Discussions, comments
Debate on the ethical samples of the journal – Tamás Bagotai ♦ Adrienne Varga ♦ Judit Székelyhidi ♦ Kálmán Torma
Ethical questions in therapeutic practice 23. – Tamás Bagotai ♦ Gergely Kispál ♦ Erika Tóth
Letter to the editor
Katalin Nyerges: Knowledge is power Thoughts on the clinical psychologists’ professional trainings. Comments – Bernadette Péley ♦ László Nagy
News
In memoriam András Stark – Amaryl Árkovits
Reports
Literature letter
Family and literature – a family therapist’s extracts from Péter Esterházy’s work – Mária Koltai
Conferences – Lili Valkó ♦ Anikó Hazag ♦ Ildikó Nagy ♦ Márta Takácsy ♦ Andrea Ritter ♦ Krisztina Pál
Book and periodical reviews – Pálma Virág Fehér ♦ Tibor Jakab ♦ Tibor Cece Kiss ♦ Alexandra Nagy ♦ Judit Stefany-Tóth ♦ Aranka Tiringer
List of professional books and periodicals
Professional programs
Editorial announcements
Abstracts
Methodological study
Zsuzsa Marlok, Gábor Pál Török:
‘Mental landscape’. Representing the inner landscape on the table stage
The aim of this study is to present the major theoretical and the most important practical aspects of the table stage technique used in monodrama. The method is based on a theory of psychodrama according to which the client’s inner world and current conflicts become visible and more transparent through active representation, which may enhance the helping process and assist the client in adopting new attitudes and finding novel modes of action. This technique offers another communication channel, representation, which completes the verbal toolkit of person-centred counselling. The persons, life situations, feelings and thoughts the client and the helper talk about are represented on the table with the help of tiny objects, such as pebbles and blocks. As a result of their joint creation, the picture they have drawn by the end of the session depicts the client’s so-called mental landscape, which helps both parties follow, understand and interpret the abstraction in the client’s mind. This article is recommended for helping professionals who follow the principles of Rogers’ person-centred counselling and a mental health care approach in their individual counselling/guidance and are trained in psychodrama as well. This article illustrates the method with examples cited from our own experience as mental health and pastoral care counsellors.
Key words: table stage – psychodrama – monodrama – individual counselling/guidance – symbolization
Questions of practice
Andrea Kövesdi:
Groups of symbol therapy on Psychotherapeutic Weekends 2007–2016
Psychotherapeutic Weekends has over 40 years of history and from 1974 to 1986 it has been a regular professional forum for expert psychotherapists. The Hungarian Group Psychotherapy Association (MACSOPE) resumed the event in 2007, called Psychotherapeutic Weekend Reloaded. During both the old and the new Psychotherapeutic Weekends, the Relaxation and Symbol Therapy Association was represented. This study reviews the work of Symbol Therapy Groups of PSZIHÉ which is organized since 2007. Moreover, it tells about the changes in leadership. The creators of the Hungarian Symbol Therapy methodology: Bertalan Koronkai and Magda Szőnyi. Andrea Kövesdi leads the small groups since the 2007 recharge. Using a case vignette it gives us an overview of a 2.5-day intensive spiritual process in the language of the inner pictures. In the description, I include the embedding of the symbol therapy group into the PSZIHÉ event, the topic selection process of the small groups, the group dynamics, and the small group and large group attachment points. The specificity of symbol therapy as a methodology is expressed in the study, such as the question of empathy, effects of group dynamics, and the differences observed in acquired persons and persons absent in meditation.
Keywords: PSZIHE – symbol therapy – internal images – resources
Overview
Katalin N. Kollár, Éva Szabó, Judit Paskuné Kiss:
School psychology from the point of view of methodological centres
School psychology from the point of view of methodological centres
School psychology became an independent professional field and institutionalized 30 years ago in Hungary. During this time it developed a unique professional point of view, its own methodology as well as its training system. The aim of school psychology is to help the educational work at schools through individual and group consultations with teachers, students and parents and through developmental work. It has key importance to work together with related professions, particularly with clinical psychology and psychotherapy as in many cases the root of the problems at schools originates from the disturbances of family relations or from the particular characteristics of personal development.
We offer an overview on the progress of school psychology’s international position and scope of duties. We discuss the main dilemmas school psychologists deal with, and the possible forms of collaboration with other specialists. We present the duties of the National Methodological Basis for School Psychology and through this task, we present the characteristics of the Hungarian school and kindergarden psychology, forms of professional support offered by this organisation and their achievements. Finally, we summarise the lessons of the first Travelling Conference. Our paper presents the achievements of school psychology in the last century and the steps of the professionalization of Hungarian school psychology.
Keywords: tasks of school psychology – prevention – indirect service – group work – Hungarian Methodological Center of School Psychology
Pearls
András Stark:
Short-intensive psychotherapy starting in suicide crisis
Short-intensive psychotherapy starting in suicide crisis
In the past few decades it was unthinkable for several Hungarian conventions to go without András Stark and his completely booked „film workshops”. In his film essays and in private conversations he expressed captivatingly what was important to him in psychotherapeutic relationships. Thus, it is understandable that beside this charismatic form of self-expression he authored only a few traditional publications.
The following republished case study was written more than 30 years ago. In this study he summarized his experiences which founded his short-term intensive therapeutic method, which mainly focuses on dreams and transference. The method was later christened DREAM and the Pécs method-specific training centre took this name as well (Dynamic Short Therapy Association And Workshop).
This study illustrates the DREAM therapy’s emotional-social atmosphere and also provides theoretical clues to help understanding this peculiar method. Looking back on that period of three decades past, it was a brave and prospective initiative to write this study that established the method. It helped a lot for the growing generations of psychotherapists of Pécs and South Hungary in forming their identity.
István Tiringer