World Journal PSYCHOTHERAPY 2011, № 1 (4) The World Dreaming Congress in Sydney, Australia, in August 2011 CONTENT GGREETINGSREETINGS ALEXANDRA F. FILATOVA ANTHONY KORNER, A. ROY BOWDEN Meditation and Personality Development .........................................66 World Dreaming. BARANNIKOV ALEXANDER Greetings from Australia and Aotearoa-New Zealand ......................... 3 Spiritual (personal) deprivation: the phenomenological content, ALFRED PRITZ consequences, features of diagnostics and the help ........................70 I hope you enjoy and get new insights! ..............................................4 PPSYCHOANALYSISSYCHOANALYSIS V.V. MAKAROV D.A. AVTONOMOV New horizons of psychotherapy ........................................................4 The Mother Inside ..........................................................................85 WWORLDVIEWORLDVIEW AANDND PPHILOSOPHYHILOSOPHY YYOGAOGA AANDND MMENTALENTAL HHEALTHEALTH ANTHONY KORNER CHENCHULAKSHMI KOLLA, B. AADITYA Dreaming as Worldview ....................................................................5 Relevance of yoga in modern times ................................................ 87 A. ROY BOWDEN GANESH SHANKAR New waves break around Psychotherapy in the Pacific..................... 11 Role of Yogic attitudes for mental wellbeing .................................... 91 IINTERNATIONALNTERNATIONAL OORGANIZATIONSRGANIZATIONS FFOROR PPSYCHOTHERAPYSYCHOTHERAPY RAKESH GIRI Mental Well being in Yoga Sutras of Mahrishi Patanjali .....................97 SERGE GINGER Psychotherapy, an Independent Profession: HARSH VARDHAN GOSWAMI European Colloquium on Psychotherapy ......................................... 16 Yoga For Mental Health and Happiness ...........................................99 GGESTALTESTALT TTHERAPYHERAPY DDEVELOPMENTEVELOPMENT OOFF PPSYCHOTHERAPYSYCHOTHERAPY KATKOV A.L., MAKAROV V.V. SERGE GINGER Gestalt therapy in France ............................................................. 102 Integrative movement in Psychotherapy: methodology, achievements, prospects .......................................... 21 RRESEARCHESEARCH BROUDE LEONID SNEZANA MILENKOVIC, JELENA SAKOTIC-KURBALIJA Trans-Cultural psychotherapy: What are the psychotherapists dreaming of? ................................. 108 Psychotherapeutic Setting in Non-Western (Arabic) Culture ............. 30 PPOINTOINT OOFF VVIEWIEW TTHEORYHEORY OFOF PSYCHOTHERAPYPSYCHOTHERAPY O.V. SHVEDOVSKIY COURTENAY YOUNG Congruence idea Application in the space Encouraging the “Felt Sense” of Self .............................................. 36 of vector model of psychotherapy .................................................115 SERGE GINGER SERGE GINGER EMDR: an Integrative Approach ...................................................... 41 Female Brains vs. Male Brains ......................................................120 MMETHODSETHODS AANDND MMODALITIESODALITIES LINDE NICOLAY D., MAKAROVA L.A. New Visions of the Method of Smelling MARK YE. BURNO of the Imaginary Odor .................................................................. 123 Therapy by means of creative self-expression HHISTORYISTORY OOFF PSYCHOTHERAPYPSYCHOTHERAPY by M. Burno – TCSEB as the Russian native method-school of Therapy by means of Spiritual Culture .........................................45 THEODOR ITTEN R.D. Laing’s Psychotherapeutic Compassion ................................. 127 NIKOLAY D. LINDE Emotional Dependence Correction EEVERYDAYVERYDAY PPRACTICERACTICE by Means of Emotional Image Therapy ............................................50 NIKOLAY D. LINDE JENNIFER DE LEON What is Anger and How to Cope with It? ........................................132 My House Burned Down .................................................................55 BBRIEFRIEF RREPORTSEPORTS ALEXANDER KATKOV ITALIA GABRIELLA SORGI Express Psychotherapy .................................................................. 61 The world belongs to those who make it better ..............................140 World Journal Psychotherapy, 2011, № 1 (4) Greetings World Dreaming. Greetings from Australia and Aotearoa-New Zealand Dr Anthony Korner, Australia 1; A. Roy Bowden, Aotearoa-New Zealand 2 1 Chairperson, World Dreaming, 2011; 2 Co Chairperson The World Dreaming Congress in Sydney, Australia, in August 2011, actions and solutions. In placing World Dreaming in this location, welcomes psychotherapists from around the globe. This is the first in Sydney on the Pacific Rim, we celebrate cultural diversity and event of its kind in the South Pacific heralding the establishment of acknowledge the necessity for intelligent repair to the sustaining close relationships with colleagues from many countries and affirming fabric, emphasizing integration that retains and recognizes difference important contributions from the World Council for Psychotherapy. and identity. In the modern era psycho-analysis and psychotherapy The interconnectedness of the modern world has resulted in an have often given attention to dreaming as a road to the understanding expansion of the horizon of awareness of individuals and communities. of the self. The impact of interpersonal trauma upon our capacity This has given rise to the phenomenon that has become known as to think and dream is profound. The overwhelming predilection to “the global village”. The world has moved beyond the colonial era and forget or deny history, or turn a blind eye to trauma, at both individual its false beliefs about the superiority of one group of humans over and collective levels leaves us in cycles of repetition. When we another. We are a long way, however, from appropriate recognition and simply repeat we are stuck in habit rather than allowing ourselves to communicative exchange across the many cultural and geographic respond creatively to the present circumstance. Overcoming denial divides that shape the richness and diversity of humanity. does not simply involve the recognition of brute facts: it involves We are at times overwhelmed by this diversity and wonder the recognition and animation of human encounters through the at the apparent incompatibilities and conflicts. Yet we are all imaginative elaboration, between people, of new ways of being simultaneously aware, however vaguely, of our common humanity together, of playing, and of working together. This is World Dreaming. and the commonalities we share in relation to our environment. At Australia and New Zealand are joint hosts of this congress. Both the individual level the intention of psychotherapy has always been countries lie in the South Pacific region where Indigenous cultures to find forms of communication, expression and understanding that have confronted the modern world only in the last two centuries or so. allow non-violent resolution of individual and interpersonal problems In both countries Indigenous voices are being heard in new ways. In and the emergence of the individual human spirit. Australia we may be finally beginning to overcome the level of denial As therapists we wonder whether these principles can be applied that has so often negated Indigenous aspirations. at a broad political level. Many Indigenous Australians say that the In New Zealand there has been a resurgence of the Maori capacity to hold in mind a living connection with the environment language and the emergence of Tangata Whenua (people of the land) that informs our day-to-day lives and actions, has been integral to as a political force. Psychotherapy associations in New Zealand, their culture, one that has sustained itself for more than 40,000 years. in particular, have been striving to utilize traditional wisdom and Arguably this worldview, embodied in the concept of “the dreaming”, knowledge in relation to healing practices and seek dialogue that reflects a form of human life in relative balance with its interpersonal enriches both cultures. In Australia similar efforts are being made and environmental surround. In contrast the cultures that have and this conference is attended by practitioners with wisdom in this prevailed in the developed nations of modern times are seen to be out regard. New Zealand has ‘Treaty of Waitangi’ obligations which call for of balance with the environment. Maori and non Maori to act in partnership and this was highlighted in The Indigenous vision is ancient but may speak to the needs of 2008 when Maori psychotherapists were allocated seats on the NZAP humanity in the new millennium. The oldest living culture in the world Council. There is a long way to go in both countries and the congress today may be in a special position to share knowledge about the organisers in Sydney are pleased so many presentations will be made continuity of human experience across the ages. In Australasia we by indigenous psychotherapists and healers. see the pain of cultures struggling to adapt to the modern world. It is South Pacific Islands are under threat economically and reasonable to expect that all peoples recognize this struggle as their geographically in the context of climate change and have a huge own. The pain and struggle, for instance, of modern urban dwellers investment in finding solutions to this global challenge. Australia, to be in touch with the emotional basis of life in themselves and the placed as it is between Oceania and Asia, has one of the most environment is evident in the widespread phenomenon of alienation multicultural societies on earth, where people from all parts of the in our communities. world have