Category: Psychotherapy

• Making Space for Difference

  This is the second of a series of posts about this year’s ASGPP conference. One of the things that has drawn me to Psychodrama over the years is that it is rooted in the desire for social equality, freedom, and community, and deeply embedded in hope. Indeed, most of the people engaged in the discipline…

  Michael Watson PhD

  April 15, 2015

  Healing, Psychotherapy, Stories

  ASGPP, culture, Native American, psychotherapy

• Whose Stories ?

  This is the first of a series of posts about my experiences at, and thoughts about, the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama annual conference this past weekend. After a day in airport purgatory we made it home from the ASGPP  conference shortly after midnight this morning. The conference was exceptional. It was also…

  Michael Watson PhD

  April 13, 2015

  Healing, native american, Psychotherapy, Stories

  ASGPP, Native American, psychotherapy, stories

• When Problems Reach Across Generations

  This morning, after a night of light snow, the sun came out and the temperature warmed to above freezing for the first time in several weeks. In response, birds began to sing in large numbers, people took off their coats, and the ice on our parking lot’s asphalt melted. Now, late in the evening, the…

  Michael Watson PhD

  March 4, 2015

  Psychotherapy, Shamanism

  Narrative Therapy, Problems, psychotherapy, Shamanism

• Spirits and Trauma

  My teachers insisted that each person carries a unique vision and way of understanding the world that must be honored. Of course, this uniqueness is expressed in shamans as well. Get a group of shamans in a room, ask them to check out some problem, and each will report a different take on it. Most…

  Michael Watson PhD

  February 3, 2015

  Psychotherapy, Shamanism

  developmental trauma, orphanage, psychotherapy, Shamanism, trauma