We explore his distinction between reactive and responsive countertransference, and how this differentiation is central to therapeutic presence, involvement, and ethical clinical work.

Richard explains how every school of psychotherapy runs the risk of becoming orthodox—a rigid way of seeing and responding to clients. When this happens, theory itself can shape the therapist’s emotional and relational reactions in ways that limit presence and attunement.

Richard Erskine discusses the topic of Compassion, Hope & Forgiveness.

In this interview Richard Erskine shared how he defines life script and how these patterns are formed and maintained across a lifetime.

Richard explains Physis as the inner thrust to grow, heal, and become all that we can be – the source of our aspirations, hope, and enthusiasm. In contrast, homeostasis is the pull to stay the same: to remain with what is familiar, predictable, and stabilizing for our identity.

Richard G. Erskine, PhD., creator of Integrative Psychotherapy shares what is integrative psychotherapy and how the modality has developed.

This is a psychotherapy video in which Richard G. Erskine, PhD., creator of Integrative Psychotherapy, presents the philosophy behind the psychotherapeutic work, a humanistic and relationship-focused therapy.

In this conversation, Dr. Richard G. Erskine weaves together Transactional Analysis, Gestalt, Object Relations, and Psychoanalysis into a deeply human, relational psychotherapy. He shares how “so-called psychopathology” is best understood as a response to unmet relational needs—shifting the focus from diagnosis to contact, from technique to attuned presence.

We explore when confrontation serves healing rather than shame, how regression can emerge safely through presence, and why therapy cannot be automated—because, as Dr. Erskine says, “AI is like propping a bottle; psychotherapy is being held and fed at the breast.”

This webinar will describe how Life Scripts are lived in life today through constricting beliefs about self, others, and the quality of life. These Script Beliefs are then acted out in behaviours and fantasies that in return justify the reinforcement of the beliefs.

In this episode of the Two and a Half Psychiatrists podcast, psychiatrist Dr. Mihailo Ilić welcomes one of the most influential psychotherapists of our time — Dr. Richard Erskine, founder of Integrative Psychotherapy and a pioneer in the development of Integrative Transactional Analysis.