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The term “integrative” refers, in part, to the process of integrating the personality and assimilating disowned, unconscious, or unresolved aspects of the self, making them part of a cohesive personality. This reduces the reliance on defensive patterns that inhibit spontaneity and limit flexibility in problem-solving, in maintaining health, and in relating to others, with the goal of re-establishing full capacity for contact with the world.
On the other hand, Integrative Psychotherapy also refers to the integration of a person’s affective, cognitive, behavioural, and physiological systems, along with an awareness of the social and transpersonal aspects of the systems surrounding them. These concepts are applied within an evolutionary perspective of human development, in which each stage of life presents its own developmental tasks, needs, sensitivities, crises, and opportunities for new learning.
The aim of Relational Integrative Psychotherapy is to foster a sense of wholeness, enhancing the quality of the person’s being and their functioning across intrapsychic, interpersonal, and socio-political domains, while maintaining due regard for personal limits and the external constraints affecting each individual.
In the late 1960s, a major existentialist philosophical movement, a significant social movement, and, of course, a major movement in the field of psychotherapy were taking place across various parts of Europe and North America.
A young psychologist R. G. Erskine, a contemporary of who inspired major paradigm shifts in psychotherapy (Berne, Maslow, Moreno, and of course Fritz Perls and Carl Rogers, among others), began his career in the clinical field, tackling a wide range of challenges: running a private practice, teaching at the University of Illinois, working with children with learning difficulties, and later serving as a psychotherapist in a high-security prison.
