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2025, The Neuropsychotherapist

This is a case study, including a discussion of a single psychotherapy session, describing one way of working with "pro-being pride", a mind/body state vital to working with shame in survivors of relational trauma. I define pro-being pride as "I delight in being me, delighting in me delighting in being me, with myself" (self with self); and "I delight in being me, delighting in you delighting in being yourself, with me" (self with other).

2025, The Neuropsychotherapist

This article details two experiences that occurred outside of psychotherapy, one involving a colleague and the other involving the author. These two events offer the reader a way of understanding movement from a traumatic shame state to pro-being pride in a single "session", with an emphasis on the memory reconsolidation process. "Pro-being pride" is a mind/body state vital to working with shame in survivors of relational trauma. Pro-being pride is defined as "I delight in being me, delighting in me delighting being me, with myself" (self with self); and "I delight in being me, delighting in you delighting in being yourself, with me" (self with other).

2025, European Journal of Trauma and Dissociation

Sexual molestation of a child invariably results in traumatic shame states that, without appropriate adult intervention, can last for years during childhood and well into adulthood. Physical immobilization during sexual molestation, feeling trapped and helpless, can also contribute directly to the development of a chronic, traumatic shame state and immobilization impacting body, emotion and thought/belief/meaning. This is Part 2 of a two-part article. Part 1 offered a close study of two psychotherapy sessions
that took place 16 months apart, Sessions 1 and 2, exploring several traumatic effects of the survivor’s arms being held down by his abuser. Part 1 demonstrated how, with the benefit of an integrative approach to psychotherapy that paid close attention to the embodied, lived experience of sexual molestation and specifically immobilization, a survivor moved more freely in body, emotion and mind from a traumatic shame state to one of triumphant, pro-being pride. Part 2 carries forward this examination of three sessions with the same survivor that immediately followed Session 2. With a
stronger embodiment of pro-being pride, the patient was able to observe his dissociative, retaliatory rage and access adaptive anger (Session 3), deepen his pro-being pride and move toward a more integrated, core self (Sessions 4 and 5). Part 2 concludes with a discussion of therapeutic factors most likely
contributing to the patient’s transformation across these three sessions, preceded by an abbreviated summary of related findings from Part 1.

2025, European Journal of Trauma and Dissociation

Sexual molestation of a child invariably leads to traumatic shame states that, without appropriate adult intervention, can last for years during childhood and well into adulthood. Physical immobilization during sexual molestation, feeling trapped and helpless, can also contribute directly to the development
of a chronic, traumatic shame state and immobilization impacting body, emotion, and thought/belief/meaning. This two-part article describes five psychotherapy sessions with an adult, male survivor of childhood sexual molestation. Part 1 offers a close study of two psychotherapy sessions, Sessions 1 and 2, that took place 16 months apart, exploring several traumatic effects of the survivor being held down by his abuser. Part 1 demonstrates how, with the benefit of an integrative approach to psychotherapy that pays close attention to the embodied, lived experience of sexual molestation and specifically immobilization, a survivor can move more freely in mind and body from a traumatic shame state to one of triumphant, pro-being pride. Part 2 carries forward this examination of three sessions immediately following Session 2. With a stronger, more integrated self that is pro-being pride, the patient is now able to observe his dissociative, retaliatory rage and access adaptive anger (Session 3), deepen his pro-being pride, and facilitate his movement toward an integrated, core self (Sessions 4 and 5). Both Parts 1 and 2 close highlighting those therapeutic factors contributing to the patient’s transformation.

2025, Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis

Shame is part of our shared humanity. Shame is fundamental to our work as psychotherapists, reflecting upon experiences of self, other, and relationship. Shame also lies at the heart of psychopathology and human suffering, making understanding shame essential to our work as psychotherapists. This essay describes the phenomenology of shame, with an emphasis on its neurophysiology and Stephen Porges' polyvagal theory. Differentiating shame as emotion from shame as traumatic state of mind/body is detailed as well. Applying these perspectives to our work with shame and attachment, particularly disorganised/unresolved attachment styles, with an eye toward healing relational neglect and trauma, closes this first of a two part series on shame, attachment, and psychotherapy.

2025, European Journal of Trauma and Dissociation

While shame has attracted renewed interest in both research and clinical practice, pride as emotion and as part of traumatic, mind/body states have been given scant attention in the psychotherapy literature. The following article is a step toward correcting that oversight. As with shame, pride lies at the heart of self, other, and relationship, and thus is central to our work as psychotherapists, and more specifically with survivors of relational trauma. I begin by outlining a common experiential pathway from aliveness and what I term ‘‘pro-being pride’’ to shame and dissociation. Next, I describe three pride subtypes as acute, emotional processes, one maladaptive (‘‘better me pride’’) and two adaptive (‘‘good enough me pride’’ and ‘‘pro-being pride’’), and then two maladaptive, chronic pride subtypes that are the consequence of relational trauma, and reflect different degrees of dissociation in relation to pride (‘‘not me pride’’ and ‘‘no me pride’’). For each pride subtype, I offer brief vignettes to show how these phenomena may show up in psychotherapy. To more fully flesh out these concepts, four clinical psychotherapy sessions with four different patients display for the reader a few of the many ways pride appears, disappears, reappears and, in turn, can be worked with in psychotherapy. The emphasis is on identifying and working with adaptive pride, particularly pro-being pride, when treating relational
trauma survivors of abuse and/or neglect.

2025, Psychoanalytic Review

Identifying and working with contrasts or polarities in art and life, including psychotherapy, is the focus of this article. Examples from neurophysiology, dream life, a neuroatypical patient, a survivor of relational neglect and sexual abuse, and working in couple therapy with “somatic eruptions” are offered, each with reference to seeking creative thirds out of polarization.

2025, European journal of trauma and Dissociation

This review of Onno van der Hart and Olivier Piedfort-Marin’s (2023) article, “Amnesia and Hypermnesia as a Paradigm of Non-realization in Trauma-Related Dissociation: Pierre Janet’s Case of Irene” highlights a rich historical, conceptual, and clinical exploration of Pierre Janet’s work with his famous patient, Irene. Given their erudite study of Janet’s writing and lectures of almost 40 years, the authors afford the reader an intriguing window into some of the most important and perplexing issues pertaining to psychotherapy with complex trauma and dissociative disorders, including Janet’s understanding of hysteria (i.e., structural dissociation); psychasthenia (i.e., debilitating mental symptoms, as in obsessions); memory, including the stark contrast between
hypermnesia and amnesia, and memory as reproduction versus construction; and realization, i.e., the patient’s present-day view of themselves, traumatizing others, and new meanings derived from successful psychotherapy. The authors invite the reader to situate Janet’s work with Irene in relation to contemporary, trauma-informed psychotherapy. Accepting their invitation, I consider how an understanding of traumatic shame states, movement from a one to two-personal psychology, and modern attachment theory coupled with relationally-oriented psychotherapy, might enhance our work with patients such as Irene, today.

2025, PsycCRITIQUES

This article is my book review of “Shame in the Therapy Hour”, edited by Dearing and Tangney. This book is an exemplary compendium of perspectives both conceptual and clinical on shame informed psychotherapy. Several different therapy approaches (e.g., psychodynamic, emotion focused, behavioral, etc.) and modalities (e.g., individual, group, skills-based, etc.,) are represented by authors with expertise in those domains. This review describes several valuable contributions and a few noteworthy omissions worthy of further exploration.

2024

Introduction: This paper compares and analyses Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) through the paradigm of Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling at three levels: intention, process and practice. Objectives: The aim is to identify specific similarities and differences between the two approaches in order for practitioners of both to mutually benefit. Methods: A high-level comparison of SFBT and Symbolic Modelling approaches; a line-byline linguistic analysis of a representative SFBT transcript using models from Symbolic Modelling such as: ‘vectoring’, the Problem-Remedy-Outcome model and Clean Language; an examination of a sample of common Solution-Focus questions for metaphors, presupposition and ‘leading’ syntax, with alternative ‘cleaner’ versions provided. Results: Examples of similarities and differences between the two approaches at the level of intention, process and practice were identified. A selection of SFBT questions were modified to show how they could be cleaner, i.e. ...

2024, Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies

In this case study, the character of Miss Havisham, from Dickens' novel Great Expectations, is explored as a representation of frozen trauma. Support is offered for the usefulness of fictional case study to therapeutic understanding and practice, and some of its limitations noted. The frozen nature of traumatic experiencing is elucidated and defined from a personcentered perspective. A brief synopsis of the story and character of Miss Havisham is offered, and the relevance of her early life considered together with her environment and her social context as a Victorian woman. A case is made for a body response to working with trauma which draws upon Gendlin's focusing approach and Prouty's model of Pre-Therapy. Limitations of both are noted. Using fictional case study as a creative method of inquiry, its potential for offering real world understanding around trauma theory is established. The primacy of the body in experiencing trauma, and healing from it, is affirmed. A resonance is illuminated between current thinking around traumatic wounding and healing, and a relational therapeutic approach which has the organism at its heart. Insights have arisen from the therapist's exploration of 'tidy[ing] up' the mess and real change has been experienced in practice with clients.

2024

The social panorama approach is a psychotherapeutic method based on the view that generalized unconscious spatial imagery forms the cognitive foundation of social life. It appears to be an efficient therapeutic tool for solving a wide range of relational issues and may inspire research on space in social cognition. The leading principle of the social panorama model is "relation equals location", which means that people keep the generalized images of relevant others in steady locations in the mental space around them. The exact location of such an image governs the emotional quality of the relationship. We tested the prediction that moving a social image will change the emotional meaning of the relationship involved (i.e., relation equals location). To this end, we measured how increasing the distance to the image of a beloved alters the emotional experience. Our results show that, when asked to triple the distance to the image of a loved one, the participants exhibited a s...

2023

In this paper, clients' experiences of therapy are used to examine two essential paradoxes: neutrality and influence, in the minimalist version of Solution Focused Brief Therapy developed by the author and his colleagues at BRIEF. Both concepts are linked to trust, a radical trust in each client to know what is best for their future, and a trust that decisions about this future are solely the business of the client. Maintaining this trust in the face of our own ideas and good wishes towards our clients requires a discipline which may not suit all Solution Focused practitioners. Dressed to Kill Angela stepped in from the pages of Vogue; cool, assured and with an air of authority. She had been planning to kill herself when she read about Solution Focused Brief Therapy in The Times and decided to give it a go before carrying on with her plan. She had been drawn by the future focus and the apparent lack of need to talk about the past. She said she knew perfectly well the source of her problems but had no intention of talking about it. Angela's adult life had been one of extremes. Having performed well at school she went so far off the rails that in her late teens she became a homeless heroin addict. A suicide attempt brought her to the attention of the mental health services and a successful rehabilitation programme. Picking up the threads of her life, Angela continued her education and became an accountant. Unfortunately, the past, as she put it, crept up on her and after a disastrous spell in a psychiatric hospital she once again became a homeless heroin-addict. It was barely possible to equate the ultra-fashionable, expensively dressed woman before me with the "bag lady" she had been through her late twenties. It was an attempted rape that "woke her up" a second time. She fought off her attacker and in doing so was reminded of her determination to survive.

2023

Chris Iveson is a founder member of the Brief Therapy Practice (7-8 Newbury Street, London EC1A 7HU, UK), Europe's largest solution-focused brief therapy training organisation and one of the few private clinics to offer a pro bono therapy service to public sector referrals. Originally trained as a social worker, he is a Member of the Institute of Family Therapy. His work has included generic statutory social work and various specialist positions in both child and adult services within the NHS.

2023, International journal of solution-focused practices

In this article, I describe the situations focused model, an open systems model that aims to help the practitioner to position solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) in the context of other sources of useful professional knowledge and to be most useful in face of the complexity of clients' needs in human services. The model facilitates the utilization of all potential resources and perspectives available in every situation. The situations focused model proposes a perspective of "both/and" instead of "either/or" in some key areas of solution-focused thinking. This article also addresses a tendency in parts of the SFBT writings, teachings, and practice to think in three types of dichotomies: 1) the SFBT approach versus other therapeutic approaches and bases of knowledge, 2) solutions versus problems, and 3) the client's expertise versus practitioner's expertise. This article proposes that treating these dichotomies as real areas of conflict are in many situations not useful, may be harmful to the field of SFBT, and may jeopardize the quality of treatment for individual clients. The situations focused model suggests a "both/and" approach to SFBT and other models of help, to solutions and problems, and to the client's expertise and therapist's expertise. The situations focused model suggests that these perceived dichotomies could be easily harmonized and provide a map to effectively utilize the solution-focused model in larger human services systems, and with clients who would potentially chose a type of treatment other than SFBT. The main implications and benefits of complementing SFBT with the situations focused map are discussed on theoretical and practical levels. The term "data situation" is introduced as a concept complementing and broadening the term "exception" in SFBT; data situation refers to potential sources of recourse from any part of the total helping context.

2023, American Journal Of Family Therapy

This is a brief description of The Gestalt Approach to Family Therapy.

2023, American Journal of Psychotherapy

This paper describes therapeutic strategies for making Contact with severely disturbed children, utilizing our understanding of developmental ego psychology and psychoanalytic object relationship theory. We believe these strategies of contact will be helpful for the child in developing and expanding their relatedness to the object world as a living whole.

2023

The defi nition of my problem — of memory, fl uency and fl uidity — seemed simple enough when I began this piece. It would be about the existential fact of how these real losses have affected my practice of Focusing, guiding and listening. But as this theme developed, it underwent its own carrying forward. The way I have held this apparently simple issue has become a doorway into the question of my life as a Focusing Therapist. You are invited to come along as the situation — the problem, my confusions, partial clearings, etc. are transformed. I will start with the “fact” of my memory.

2023, Transmission: The Journal of The Awareness Field

In summary, this paper elaborates how Primordial Awareness metabolizes our lived experience and how Primordial Awareness metabolizes our traumatic experience, metabolizes the Structures of our concretized states of mind called ego states and how Primordial Awareness metabolizes the power of our superego state. The power of luminous Primordial Awareness metabolizes our instinctive drivenness such as sexual instinctiveness and our instinctiveness of aggression and destruction. These concretized instinctive drives can be transformed into Diaphanous Fields of Creative Luminous Creative Energy, This paper unfolds the process of unfolding from an exoteric framing of consciousness experience to an ESOTERIC Experience of Consciousness.

2023

For a long time, metaphors were seen as merely a figurative device used in literature. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth for example, Scotland is described as a body that “weeps, it bleeds, each day a new gash”. But we now know that metaphor is much more than this. It is fundamental to everyday language, thought and deed. “The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one thing in terms of another” [1]. Metaphor enables us to process abstract or complex concepts, by thinking in analogies derived from more familiar experiences. In science, for example, metaphor is a means of creating and communicating new theories and discoveries; “Max Planck, a gifted pianist and cellist, conceived quantum theory in part by imagining electron orbits as the vibrating strings of a musical instrument” [2].

2023, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

In this study, we measured emotional processing and the alliance across 3 phases of therapy (beginning, working, and termination) for 74 clients who each received brief experiential psychotherapy for depression. Using path analysis, we proposed and tested a model of relationships between these 2 processes across phases of therapy and how these processes relate to predict improvement in the domains of depressive and general symptoms, self-esteem, and interpersonal problems after experiential treatment. Both therapy processes significantly increased across phases of therapy. Controlling for both client processes at the beginning of therapy, working phase emotional processing was found to directly and best predict reductions in depressive and general symptoms, and it could directly predict gains in self-esteem. Within working and termination phases of therapy, the alliance significantly contributed to emotional processing and indirectly contributed to outcome. Surprisingly, beginning therapy alliance (measured after Session 1) also directly predicted all outcomes. Furthermore, only clients' beginning therapy process predicted reductions in interpersonal problems. Therefore, although the proposed theory of change was supported, clients' beginning therapy processes may constrain clients' success in experiential treatment and in particular their outcomes in some problem domains related to depression.

2023

The present study is an attempt to demystify the concept of spiritual intelligence (hereafter SI) and its role in education. To undertake the study first an overview of intelligence and its corresponding types and role will be brief. Then SI from theoretical perspective and its relation with some psychological theories as the theory of hierarchy of needs and self-actualization of learners by Maslow (1908-1970), social embedded learning and Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) that scaffolds learning by Vygotsky (1896-1934), and the theory of multiple intelligences by Gardner (1943) will be discussed in detail. Finally its role in education unmasked. The findings have implication in language teaching in particular and education in general.

2023, Revista Da Abordagem Gestaltica Phenomenological Studies

Reconociendo a la entrevista fenomenológica como un instrumento valioso para la recolección de datos en investigaciones cualitativas orientadas a la comprensión del Mundo Vivido de las personas, se proponen orientaciones generales para encuadrar su realización en el contexto de investigaciones en psicología, psicoterapia y desarrollo humano. También se señalan dos dimensiones implicadas en las interacciones: 1) la relacional y 2) la técnica. Y se describen aspectos importantes de tomar en cuenta en cada una de ellas al realizar las entrevistas.

2023, Revista Da Abordagem Gestaltica Phenomenological Studies

2022, PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDIES - Revista da Abordagem Gestáltica

2022, Journal of Solution Focused Practices

This paper seeks to consolidate developments in Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) over the past decade. I conclude that we have already seen the arrival of a kind of new form of SFBT, focused firmly on descriptions and even simpler in form that the original SFBT developed by Steve de Shazer, lnsoo Kim Berg and colleagues. This new form is still definitely SFBT in terms of the priorities and fo. cus of the original progenitors, but it has also left behind many elements which were inherited during the initial development from the previous family therapy and brief therapy traditions. The name 'SFBT 2.0' is proposed, to help prevent confusion with earlier forms while maintaining that this is not a new therapy but an important evolution of existing practice.

2022

2022, Transmission:The Journal of The Awareness Field

This luminous text is a dramatic invocation to experience our human openness to the experiential knowing of our ever-unfolding experience of the infinity of Being. The infinity of Pure Being can be experienced within the phenomena of our... more

2022, Transmission: The Journal of the Awareness Field

The focus of Dzogchen practice is to experientially understand the nature of our awareness through awareness itself. To be nonconceptually aware of the nature of our awareness is rig pa or open presence.The root or the source of all phenomena is Presence. This word presence is often used by 14th century Longechenpa as well the contemporary Namkai Norbu and many dzogchen masters as the signifier of ground of being, the ground as presence. Contemporary Christian philosophers influenced by existential phenomenology, such as Paul Tillich and Karl Rahner, describe the ground of being and ground of presence as Divinity. In Dzogchen philosophy descriptors are added such as the divine presence, luminous presence, radiant presence, pure presence, immaculate presence.

2022, Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies

Meaninglessness is one of the biggest threats of our era. Meaninglessness is not only one of the possible symptoms of depression; meaninglessness as such is a complex experience which can be identified at a micro-dimensional felt sensed level, as a meaning gap at a mesodimensional narrative level, and as groundlessness at a macro-dimensional existential level. Person-centered therapies have explicitly focused on the micro-and meso-dimension of meaning; existential therapies have emphasized the macro-dimensions by helping their clients to face the existential givens such as meaninglessness and meaning. In this article we explore how experiential-existential psychotherapy could help clients in dealing with meaninglessness by addressing this experience with micro-, meso-, and macro-dimensional interventions. A case study reveals how all meaning-dimensions are important, but not at any moment. The client concludes the therapy with discovering what is most essential to him in life. From this experience he finds the courage to engage with life at the fullest, whether it is ultimately meaningful or not.

2022

Widowhood is one of the stressful life events in a life course. Adjusting may be difficult for older adults experiencing a decrease in social networks. This study aims to explore widowhood in old age-the experience of loneliness and... more

2022

The old adage "when the only tool you have i s a hammer, everything looks like a nail" i s more than a truism, it i s a warning. It warns that it i s easy to lose sight of the qualitative properties of a problem, when the tools available are not capable of addressing them. The tools at one's disposal determine not only the way in which one addresses a task but, also, the tools that are available determine the tasks that one might deem feasible to address. However, just as hammers were developed to facilitate the driving of nails, so too have video-computer systems developed to facilitate the work of observational psychologists. 3.1 Historical Context Historically, observational research, especially i n language acquisition, has made use of whatever technology was available at the time, and began with paper and pencil. The earliest practitioners of observational research. and some even today. were known to follow after children and earnestly write• down every sound that the child uttered as carefully as possible, so as not to lose any information. The advent of the tape recorder was a boon for those interested in language acquisition and observational research, as it meant that researchers would no longer need to anguish over their ability to capture a child's utterance i n correct IPA on the fly. Following Bloom (1970), observationallyminded language acquisition researchers generally recorded the context i n which these utterances occurred. The functionality of the tape recorder meant that they could spend more time noting elements of the context i n which utterances occurred. After the tape recorder, the videotape recorder was the next development in the technological revolution. Of course, film had long since been available: Gesell had used it (without sound) for what he called cinemanalysis by, at the latest, 1935. The five reasons that he gave for using film, which also hold for video today, are as follows.

2022

Introduction: The introduction presents some statistic figures about depression, the perspective of the DSM model of depression, an overview regarding a new emerging paradigm, called “Mental Space Psychology” and its connection with a hypothesis regarding lowering symptoms of depression. Objectives: The main goal of this pilot study was to investigate the measurable effect of the experimental treatment method Depression in Awareness Space (DAS). Method: The practical suitability of the DAS method was tested with five clients in psychotherapeutic context; five other subjects did not follow a DAS intervention and constituted the control group (n=10). Preceding the pilot investigation, the clients were subjected to a so-called Four-Dimensional Symptom Questionnaire (4DSQ, Dutch: 4DKL/Vier-dimensionale Klachtenlijst) in order to determine to what extent they experienced depressive feelings. Results: After four weeks, the five clients that followed the DAS methodology were reexamined wit...

2022

Introduction: This paper outlines the scientific background behind the mBraining approach (mBIT multiple brain integration techniques) regarding the recent research in neuroscience revealing the relationship between the cerebral, enteric and cardiac neural systems and its potential as an optimization tool. In addition, a number of case studies have been detailed, to confirm the effectiveness of this approach and a number of extensive references have been included for further study. Moreover, parallels and common principles with experiential therapeutic approaches are being discussed. Objectives: This paper aims to promote the mBIT approach as a complementary diagnosis and optimization tool with applications in coaching, therapy, counseling and overall personal optimization. Methods: mBIT approach methodology and literature review. Results: The five case studies included in this paper clearly indicate the effectiveness of the mBIT approach in managing and resolving issues such as: oc...

2022

Introduction: This paper outlines the basic concepts of mental space representations, its primary concepts and the connection to psychology and psychotherapy. Also included are the descriptions of three mental space based psychotherapies and their applications. A comprehensive list of references containing case-studies and researches is also provided for the three mental space based psychotherapies, for further study and research. Objectives: This paper aims at revealing the connection between the well-researched concepts of mental space and visual-spatial representations and their use and applicability in the psychotherapy and overall psychology field. Methods: Literature review. Results: The consideration of the importance of mental representations and their influence on the clients’ social world, and emotional problems and the further encouragement of developing tools and approaches that can work directly with this abstract constructs. Conclusions: This paper anticipates a new pa...

2022

At the end of the twentieth century and beginning of the twenty-first century, the new current in terms of studying the shapes of human intelligence, risen from the transpersonal psychology area, brought to the world the third type of intelligence that tends to become acknowledged (after its antecessors: cognitive intelligence and emotional intelligence): „spiritual intelligence”. Spiritual intelligence, as defined by researchers, is strongly connected to the fulfillment of a human being’s profound need – to feel that everything has a meaning, a purpose. It is the intelligence that makes us whole and renders our integrity. It is the intelligence of the soul, the profound self-intelligence. It is the intelligence that makes us ask ourselves fundamental, existential questions and overcome the boundaries we were used to. The psychologists that discovered this type of intelligence say that its development guarantees the psychic health. The main challenges, which occurred once we accepte...

2022, Journal of Education in Black Sea Region

This paper aims at presenting a study on bodily intelligence, a relatively new term that joins the most established ones such as cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence or spiritual intelligence. The theoretical basis is supported by Gardner's theory of multiple intelligence as well as more recent neurological and psychological studies on the human body. A form of knowledge is highlighted which, although it is the first to appear in human ontogenesis, has not been much studied and promoted and which opposes rational or iconic knowledge. The present study aims at finding a tool for measuring bodily intelligence and at investigating the dynamics of this intelligence in relation to participating in a unifying personal development program through dance and movement. In this sense we went through two major stages and objectives at the same time: 1 - conducting a unifying personal development program through dance and 2 - conducting a quantitative statistical study to capture t...

2022, Revista Da Abordagem Gestaltica Phenomenological Studies

2022, PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDIES - Revista da Abordagem Gestáltica

2022, Journal of Experiential Psychotherapy

Introduction: This paper outlines the scientific background behind the mBraining approach (mBIT-multiple brain integration techniques) regarding the recent research in neuroscience revealing the relationship between the cerebral, enteric and cardiac neural systems and its potential as an optimization tool. In addition, a number of case studies have been detailed, to confirm the effectiveness of this approach and a number of extensive references have been included for further study. Moreover, parallels and common principles with experiential therapeutic approaches are being discussed. Objectives: This paper aims to promote the mBIT approach as a complementary diagnosis and optimization tool with applications in coaching, therapy, counseling and overall personal optimization. Methods: mBIT approach methodology and literature review. Results: The five case studies included in this paper clearly indicate the effectiveness of the mBIT approach in managing and resolving issues such as: oc...

2022

Focusing Institute and is a Certifying Coordinator. She is a health psychologist and a