Tuesday, July 31, 2007

case formulation

structural
genetic
dynamic/interpersonal
cognitive/behavioral

structural-
enduring psychological structures such as relation to reality, object relations, affects, thinking, impulse control, defenses

genetic-
early life including parental relationships, losses, traumas, developmental milestones

dynamic/interpersonal-
individual's current conflicts, particularly interpersonal conflicts with important people in patient's life

cognitive/behavioral-
problem list, including automatic thoughts, core beliefs, conditional believes, origins, precipitants or activating situations, predicted obstacles to treatment, treatment plan

fr brief integrated psychotherapy paper
given out by Borja

Thursday, July 12, 2007

erik h. erikson

b 6/15/1902 Karlsruhe, Germany
father Protestant, mother Jewish; both Danish and separated before birt
mother later married child's pediatrician, a well-to-do Jewish doctor
primary interest was art
wandered in his youth
changed his name fr Homburger to Erikson when 37yo

childhood and society.
young man luther.
gandhi's truth.

integrity vs. despair

approx 60yrs - death
integrity = "acceptance of one's one and only life cycle and of the people who have become significqnt to it as something that had to be and that, by necessity, permitted of no substitutions"
relinquishes the wish that important people in his life had been different and is able to love in a more meaningful way
acceptance of responsiblity of one's own life
wisdom
room to tolerate the proxiity of death and to achieve a "detached yet active concern with life"

despair-
deeply disgusted with the external world and contemptuous of persons as well as institutions
disgust masks a fear of death and a sense of despair that time is now short, too short in attempt to start a new life

Monday, July 02, 2007

Physicians for Social Responsibility

PSR
http://psr.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=home

MARYLAND
PSR/Baltimore
Larry Egbert, MD - President
325 East 25th St.
Baltimore, MD 21218
410-235-7760 (o)
410-235-7711 (f)
email: egbertL4pj@yahoo.com