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 The Institute for Cognitive Emotive Narrative Therapy (I-CENT) was established in March 2007, by Jim Byrne and Renata Taylor-Byrne, to take forward the best of Albert Ellis’s therapeutic ideas, by integrating them with emerging ideas from Attachment theory, Narrative therapy, and
a number of ideas from Buddhism and Moral philosophy. The Institute for CENT arose out of the philosophical crisis in REBT, in 2004-7, and is the first post-REBT/CBT institution to set about the challenge of resolving the tension between logical imperatives and moral imperatives. This we set out to do through the development of Cognitive Emotive Narrative Therapy (CENT)***, which also incorporates moral philosophy and critical thinking at its very foundations. The therapeutic functions of CENT are natural outgrowths of that fusion of morality and logic. This has been explored in our publications,
which are available here***; and will be further explored in our counsellor training events. The second integration that we took on, and have largely completed, is the integration of the individual self and the social network, through the modelling of mother-child interactions, and the investigation of narratives and discourses of community development and personal connection and responsibility. This work was begun in a couple of CENT papers, and then brought together in Chapter 10 of Therapy After Ellis, Berne, Freud and the Buddha: The birth of CENT. The third integration that we have undertaken is the
integration of the Freudian, the Bernian and the Ellisian models of the human psyche, into a new model of mind, in which:
the body, (diet and exercise [plus relaxation and meditation]); the brain, (brain food and brain/mind development); the environment, (relationships,
right livelihood, living conditions); personal narratives, (stories, scripts, frames,
beliefs, attitudes, values); and a sense of "something bigger than the self",
(a spiritual practice, or a community involvement); are all treated as equal contributors
to personal happiness and mental tranquility. Over the past
four years, a great deal of work has been done towards completing this mission. Dr Byrne has written more than fourteen
papers and three e-books on some of the key questions in Cognitive Emotive Narrative Therapy (CENT), and those books and papers
can be found and purchased from the I-CENT Publications page, here. ~~~ Membership of the Institute is open to counsellors, psychotherapists, counselling psychologists, social workers, youth workers, and students and supporters of those disciplines who are in sympathy with the CENT approach. See the Membership Services page for details. ~~~ Please take a look at the I-CENT Counsellor Training Division. ~~~ If you like the content of this page,
please share it with your
favourite social networking group (e.g. at Facebook, Bebo, LinkedIn, etc). ~~~ Updated: 15th July 2011 ~~~ LINKS: ABC Coaching and Counselling Services ~~~
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