Existential Psychotherapy

Course I: Anxiety: An Existential Perspective
Course II: Depression in Clinical Practice
Course III: Histrionic Disorder
Course IV: Burnout

Led by Dr. Alfried Langle

Course I: Anxiety: An Existential Perspective
15 Continuing education credits

  • Discuss an existential perspective of anxiety and healthy vs. pathological anxiety.

  • Distinguish different forms of anxiety.

  • Apply existential treatment modalities, including the anxiety confrontation method.

  • Discuss the existential experience of anxiety.

  • Identify and discuss the existential self experiential approach, personal position method, paradoxical intention method, de-reflection method, will strengthening method, and meaning searching method.


Course II: Depression in Clinical Practice
15 continuing education credits

Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss phenomenological, physiological and neurobiological components of depression.

  • Compare melancholia, grief, and burnout.

  • Identify different forms of depression.

  • Demonstrate the depression confrontation method of treatment.

  • Describe the development of depression and behavioral attitudes which keep it going on.

  • Apply existential analytic therapeutic procedures in the treatment of depression.

  • Create and demonstrate a treatment plan utilizing a current therapy case.


Course III: Histrionic Disorder
12 continuing education credits

  • Plan and create a treatment plan of histrionic personality disorders through case examples.

  • Identify the specific symptomology of histrionic disorders.

  • Describe the psycho-pathological causes of histrionic disorders.

  • Identify the impact of existential life for prevention and as causes for the development of hysteria.

  • Discuss the history of hysteria and its development.

  • Discuss the widespread phenomenon of hysteria and how the diagnosis has been lost in modern diagnostics.

  • Plan and discuss the clinical treatment of Hysteria utilizing existential and psychodynamic theory.

  • Differentiate the forms and levels of disturbance of Hysteria as a diagnosis.


Course IV: Burnout
6 continuing education credits

  • Describe the specific process  of how burnout develops.

  • Identify and diagnose burnout in different stages, with differential diagnosis to depression.

  • Demonstrate knowledge in the connection of burnout with existential deficits which are causal for its development.

  • Apply preventive interventions of burnout.

  • Analyze the existential analysis etiology of burnout.

  • Demonstrate knowledge of burnout and meaning, and existential vacuum (Frankl).

  • Discuss why burnout is a symptom of out times and identify the symptomology and role of stress.


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Dr. Alfried Langle

Dr. Alfried Längle, MD, PhD, Dr. h.c.mult

Dr. Alfried Längle, is professor of psychotherapy, born in 1951 in Austria, studied medicine and psychology and works in private practice in Vienna as psychotherapist. Close collaboration with Viktor Frankl from 1983 to 1991. Founder of the International Society for Logotherapy and Existential Analysis (Vienna) and its psychotherapeutic training program. Constant lecturer at Austrian Universities and since 2000 of Moscow, Mendoza, Santiago de Chile. Since 2004 faculty member and professor of applied psychology (psychotherapy) at Moscow’s HSE-university and guest professor at Vienna’s Sigmund Freud University (2011). Vice President of the International Federation of Psychotherapy (IFP – 2002-2010) and past President of the International Society for Logotherapy and Existential Analysis, Vienna. Over 300 publications, five honorary professorships. (www.laengle.info).


Cost

Courses are available for purchase individually as listed below, or as a package for a reduced rate.

I. Anxiety in Clinical Practice
$199 for five three-hour classes

II. Depression
$165 for five three-hour classes

III. Histrionic Disorder
$135 for four three-hour classes

IV. Burnout
$65 for two three-hour classes

Package: $464 for all four classes, SAVE $100


For psychologists, psychotherapists and those working in the mental health fields. For those with an interest in existential analysis, depression and burnout.

This post-licensure course will be at an appropriate instructional level for participants with a wide range of experience from beginner to advanced.

Continuing Education Credits: Once you finish your online course, let us know and we will send you your post-course exam and evaluation form. Simply e-mail them back to us and get a minimum of 80% correct on your exam and we will send you your certificate and verification of attendance!

Mind Body Passport is approved by the California Psychological Association to provide continuing professional education for psychologists. Mind Body Passport maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Mind Body Passport Inc. is also recognized as a CAMFT-approved Continuing Education Provider. Certificate awarded upon successful completion.  


Questions?
Contact Dr. Leslee Brown for a free one-to-one consultation or e-mail us at info@mindbodypassport.com