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With a goal similar to Roger's, to help Gloria find her own way, Frederick Perls uses and entirely different approach he calls Gestalt Therapy. The Gestalt technique, he says, is to frustrate the client as a way to draw out the authentic person and to strip away the person's phony roles and games. In this film Perls describes his approach to psychotherapy, demonstrates it in the psychotherapy session with Gloria, and then he comments on his work.

Psychologist C.G. Jung tells of his early and historic acquaintance with Sigmund Freud and why he became critical of Freudian psychology and broke away to found a rival school of his own. Jung says that, after conducting word association experiments whose results supported the theories advanced by Freud in The Interpretation of Dreams, he wrote to Freud, beginning their relationship. He explains how his knowledge of diverse cultures led him to conclude that Freud's theories of the ego, the id, the oedipal complex, and the importance of the sex drive, while valid, were too limited.

Provides glimpses into actual counseling sessions with different teenagers ages 16-18 and illustrates challenges that mental health providers face when working with both agreeable and challenging teenagers.

In this interview by Randall C. Wyatt, Dr. Seligman emphasizes that happiness is not just the absence of disorder, as "psychology as usual" might contend. Rather, happiness derives from an execution of our signature strengths. Seligman demonstrates a new set of rigorously tested interventions that lastingly increase happiness while decreasing depression. Seligman discusses his predecessors Maslow, Rogers, and Beck, what he took from them, and what he changed. He proposes new questions and explains how easy, enormously fun and important techniques can be grafted on to therapy with all clients to help them live a more engaged, meaningful, and thus happier life.