Psychotherapy and Change

Is psychotherapy a useful tool for lasting change in adults?  Specifically, can psychotherapy:

• Repair malfunctions in natural development?
• Speed up the natural developmental process?
• Trigger immediate transformative change into novel areas?

What do we mean by change? Maturation? Development through a series of stages?  What about transformation?  Is change even the right goal for psychotherapy?  Might release be a more appropriate objective? 

To understand the process of personality development and how psychotherapy facilitates maturation, we return psychology to its origins in the study of the psyche, or soul, and then outline a psychotherapy based on “psycheology” – a clinical philosophy based on development, not pathology, and focused on love, unity, and the perfect nature of the soul. 

We will close with a discussion of the long-term implications for a society that integrates the psycheology worldview, taking a developmental perspective on the process of psychospiritual maturation.

PRESENTER: Neal Goldsmith

Neal M. Goldsmith, Ph.D. is a psychologist specializing in psychospiritual development.  He is a therapist, author, and public speaker with particular expertise in psychotherapy and change.  (A six-minute clip of Neal’s “Fusion of Spirit and Science” can be found at:http://vimeo.com/751700).

Neal has curated dozens of successful conferences and cross-disciplinary “meetings of minds” for corporations and is a founder of several discussion salons on integral philosophy, media, healing, and the future of society.  He has a psychotherapy practice in Manhattan and Sag Harbor, NY and can be reached via his Web site: http://www.nealgoldsmith.com