The technique developed by the Lithuanian psychotherapist A.E. Alekseicik AE to organize therapeutic communities of the psychotherapeutic department and group psychotherapy of patients with neuroses and other borderline disorders.
I. t. P.A. is a vivid example of eclectic psychotherapy that combines Gestalt therapy, psychodrama, and existential orientation in the absence of a rigid conceptual framework. For I. t. P.A. is characterized by directiveness, careful preliminary study of the scenario of psychotherapeutic and training sessions, intensification and dramatization of the inclusion of participants in the work of the group.
Basic principles And. t. p. A.:
- Realism (implementation of the rules of «acceptance of fate» and «payment for everything»).
- Syntheticity (“holisticity, totality” is a level-by-level study of the peak experiences of group members based on various representative systems and using a wide arsenal of techniques).
- Intensification of experiences (identification of experiences being worked out and “burning out the superfluous”).
- Reliance on intact mental processes and compensatory mechanisms.
- Dramatization (techniques of «hovering over the abyss», repeated switching of polar experiences of group members, dramatic detailing and exploitation of group dynamics — the formation of associative links of the created psychodramatic situation with real problems and relationships between group members).
- The truth of information (achieved by the methods of «materialization» and reduced «measurement» of experiences).
- A clear definition of psychotherapeutic (or training) goals, a dynamic open scaled (point) assessment (self-assessment) of the psycho-corrective effect.
The author organizes 2-5-day training seminars for psychotherapists, doctors and psychologists. A rigid personality-oriented orientation allows us to regard these classes as a kind of professional selection and a laboratory for the professional and personal growth of psychotherapists.