Psychotherapy with the unmotivated patient
By: with Erv Polster ; additional commentary by Miriam Polster ; script by Joshua Holland ; produced & directed by John Holland
Contributors: PsychotherapistResources.com; Newbridge Professional Programs; Newbridge Communications
Edition: Instructor's version.
Series: Lilian Schein video series; Assessment & treatment of psychological disorders; CED 610 (NU course); PSY 340A (NU course); PSY 340B (NU course); PSY 623A (NU course); PSY 623B (NU course); PSY 631A (NU course); PSY 631B (NU course); PSY 636 (NU course); PSY 642 (NU course)
Publisher: Psychotherapy.net
Published: 2006
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 81
Subjects: Gestalt therapy; Gestalt psychology; Client-centered psychotherapy
Description: Re-creation of an actual course of therapy, with details changed to preserve confidentiality. Shows therapist and teacher Erving Polster in counseling sessions with Gerald: bright, cynical, emotionally detached, overly-intellectual, and seemingly determined to defeat this therapist as he has previous ones. In numerous vignettes over the course of treatment, Polster engages Gerald in interactions, matching wits, joining him with humor, and challenging his defenses with a balance of confrontation and empathy. With occasional voiceover commentary by Miriam Polster.
Notes: Disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.

Presented by Newbridge Professional Programs. A WhiteBirch production for Newbridge Communications, Inc.

Executive producer, Lilian Schein ; director of photography, Richard von Kaenel ; editor, Hart F. Faber ; music, Dave Holland.

Joshua Holland (Gerald).

Intended for mental health professionals.

DVD-R.