The Method of Levels: How to Do Psychotherapy Without Getting in the WayBased on Perceptual Control Theory, PCT (explained in the foreword), this therapeutic method, called The Method of Levels (MOL) leaves the patient in control with no interference from the therapist. Author Tim Carey shows how you can ask very simple questions about background thoughts to assist a friend in distress. Without offering advice or commentary of any kind, you can help your trusting friend review his or her problem, finding his or her own solution by "going up a level," looking at his or her own internal conflict "from above" and finding ways to resolve it by changing his or her sense of what is important-changing how he or she looks at the internal conflict. While working for Scotland's National Health Service Dr. Carey used the approach described in this book exclusively with his primary care patients. Some of his colleagues learned MOL from Dr. Carey and used it too. MOL achieved a new level of service efficiency such that a 15 month waiting list was reduced to 0 months. From a review by Kalen Hammann: I've just finished the Method of Levels, and I'm astonished, delighted, and inspired. I was a psychotherapist for many years, using a variety of approaches (predominantly Gestalt Therapy, several versions of family therapy, and more recently Psychology of Mind), and while my clients were often happy with the results, I frequently wasn't. My fundamental dissatisfaction arose from the fact that I never knew WHY we were successful when we were, and what had gone wrong or failed to go right when we weren't. Now I think maybe at last I know. |
Contents
CHAPTER TWO A look at where we are | 13 |
CHAPTER THREE The essence of psychological problems | 27 |
CHAPTER FOUR Why does distress occur? | 33 |
CHAPTER FIVE When conflict persists | 51 |
SECTION TWOHow? | 61 |
CHAPTER SEVEN An MOL frame of mind | 69 |
CHAPTER EIGHT Doing MOL | 87 |
CHAPTER NINE What MOL psychotherapy looks like | 103 |
CHAPTER TEN MOL from where the client sits | 115 |
CHAPTER ELEVEN Some MOL scenarios | 125 |
CHAPTER TWELVE A final word | 143 |
APPENDIX MOL DVD transcript | 155 |
175 | |
Other editions - View all
The Method of Levels: How to Do Psychotherapy Without Getting in the Way Timothy A. Carey No preview available - 2006 |
Common terms and phrases
able ADHD ask clients background thoughts become aware behavior better bipolar disorder causal loop Chapter Cognitive Behavior Therapy cognitive therapy configuration conversation depression describe discuss disruptions effective example expect experience explain explore feel financial gain foreground thoughts function goals happening help clients higher level higher perceptual levels idea important internal conflict internal perceptual conflict kind laughs learn MOL living control systems look mental disorders Method of Levels mind Mm-hmm MOL psychotherapist MOL session nods occur particular Patrick PCT perspective Perceptual Control Theory perceptual hierarchy Perhaps practice of MOL psychological distress psychological problems questions reorganizing system Richard Richard Mullan Runkel schizophrenia seems sell shakes head shift their awareness situation Sometimes stay stimulus-response model talk tell theory things trying Uh-huh understand up-a-level events what's witchdoctors words worrying wrong www.livingcontrolsystems.com Yeah