Positive Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychology by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030332648
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

How Positive Psychotherapy Started in Different Cultures “from West to East”

We are living in a time in which many transitions in living conditions are taking place. Today, the problems surrounding refugees and migrants are influencing the basic needs of human beings, such as food, environment, relations, and contacts, in addition to global health policies. The movement from one place to another presents different challenges in terms of cross-cultural adaptations.

Positive psychotherapy, with its broad consideration of different methods, techniques, and principles, is very suitable for different cultural environments. For this reason, the founder of PPT, Nossrat Peseschkian [21], first started his “journey” in his own clinic in Wiesbaden, Germany, working with patients from different cultures, using the stories from his cultural background and very often also presenting them to the patients from Western cultures. He also noticed that the patients from Western cultures found his storytelling to be beneficial, in addition to the patients from Eastern cultures.

As a result of his interest in developing PPT in other countries, Peseschkian started his journey by giving seminars, workshops, and international training programs in more than 68 countries.

Subsequently, his colleagues and co-workers continued to spread and develop PPT in their own and other countries. Many positive psychotherapists not only started to apply PPT with their clients in their own countries, but organized different kinds of training programs that promoted PPT as a transcultural and psychodynamic approach.

The application of PPT in different cultures has been examined and described in various publications [4–6, 8, 10, 13–15, 16, 25].

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