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| 2009 - Volume 8, Issue 1 |
Behr, M. - Pädagogische Hochschule Schwäbisch Gmünd, GermanyArticle | From volume/issue: 8.1 | Pages: 44-62 Keywords: emotion, schema, client-centered therapy, neuroscience, play, interaction, development Abstract: Based on the schema concept and on basic findings of neuroscience, a five-step model of self- exploration is proposed. A cue is followed by Assimilation, Affect, Processing, Emotion, and Action Motivation. This process can be understood as an ongoing activation of schemas. A person’s congruent, incongruent, or not-congruent experiences correspond to the alternative ways that schema and sub- schema networks fit or fail to fit with one another. The process of symbolization occurs as new schema networks emerge and neuronal pathways extend, so that the higher order schemas accommodate new experiences. The process is fostered when the person takes an observer position, maintaining some distance from the immediate experiences and when the therapist offers direct and challenging interactional experiences. Examples from everyday life and from play therapy are given. |
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Person-Centered Challenges to Traditional Psychological Health Care Systems Sanders, Pete - Ross-on-Wye, UKArticle | From volume/issue: 8.1 | Pages: 1-17 Keywords: psychological treatment, challenge, medical model, person-centered therapy Abstract: The tensions between traditional psychological healthcare and person-centered and experiential psychotherapies are reviewed. The following challenges to traditional medical-model dominated systems are proposed: (i) acknowledge and act on the understanding that the struggle for mental health and fulfillment involves addressing and changing the environment; (ii) understand that human beings grow in response to the environment and that growth is the best metaphor for change; (iii) put into practice the consequences of the uniqueness of each person; (iv) acknowledge that the only useful expertise in therapy consists of the ability to get out of the way of the client’s healing process and accompany them, acknowledging and acting on the fact that the client is the expert, and refinement of the human ability to provide a good relationship; (v) stop the damaging activity of psychodiagnosis; (vi) clients must have a choice of treatments and psychological therapists must be nonjudgmental facilitators of that choice process; (vii) the application of individual relational techniques does not equal encounter; and (viii) psychologists must choose treatments that they believe to be moral, ethical and principled. |
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Psychotherapy as Search and Care for the Soul Leijssen, Mia - Department of Psychology, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, BelgiumArticle | From volume/issue: 8.1 | Pages: 18-32 Keywords: soul, body, presence, rituals, spiritually integrated psychotherapy Abstract: To capture characteristics of moments when the process of the soul comes to life in psychotherapy, a “soul research project” has been started. Analysis from a good outcome case illustrates how the experience of connectedness determines whether or not the soul shows itself; how this process can be experienced by paying attention to the body; and how rituals can be nurturing to the soul. The soul is understood as a bodily felt inner compass which gives direction to the individual life. This inner felt process transcends the limited self through the experience of belonging to a larger process: connectedness with people and nature, and for some, with more subtle energies that are not the same as everyday material reality. Therapists are encouraged to communicate an attitude of openness to the full range of human experience, and to integrate the client’s spiritual life as part of their psychology. |
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Revision of the Notion of Identity and Its Implications in PCA Clinical Practice Rud, Claudio - Casabierta, ArgentinaArticle | From volume/issue: 8.1 | Pages: 33-43 Keywords: identity, intuition, multiplicity, in-between, immanence Abstract: This article uses poetic imagery rather than academic presentation. The reader is invited to reconsider the notions of identity and human nature in a more comprehensive way, transcending dualisms and an anthropocentric vision of the world. Identity can be understood as a non-preexistent phenomenon, which reconstitutes itself in each encounter. It is mobile multiplicity, always circumstantial and bound to each unfolding event. People can be conceived as knots in a net in transformation, which tie and untie continually, shaping unique singularities, in permanent mutation, infinitely participating in new constituent relations. I view the therapeutic encounter as best approached in a spirit of not knowing. Similarly, I explore intuition as a revelation that arises from unique relationships. These images allow a more committed, ethical, political, and person-centered understanding of our work. They aim to build a practice based in caring rather than in the implementation of care policies, which can be instruments of control and domination. |
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