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The two authors intend to underline the continuities and discontinuities that organize the Milan Approach, after the splitting from Selvini Palazzoli and Prata; they intend to tell the teachings of Luigi Boscolo and Gianfranco Cecchin from the beginning of training in 1978 till nowadays. After having spoken of some important stages in the work till the death of the two masters, the article underlines two major new aspects. 1. We speak about the corporeal turn: embodied experience as preconceptual know-how from which concepts are structured. We speak about the connections between bodies and social issues that enact forms of knowledge and understanding. 2. In this period of war, violence, and tyranny, we speak about epistemology and ontology as complementary stances: the need to let others disclose themselves, by allowing them to speak their own terms of engagement. The therapeutic effort is one of deactivating the dangers of one's own presuppositions and prejudices that limit one's capacity to describe and make hypothesis. There are social ontologies, communities with strong moral intensity, historical and social realities that need therapists to take position, since they need to take side and be aware of the categories they utilize. Historical and social ontology deals with the continuous change of symptoms in connection to the continuous change of the social panorama in the context we live in. We live by the bodies we are.

- by Pietro Barbetta
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- Psychology, Family Therapy, Social Psychology, Anthropology
- by Eric Parkins
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- Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Play Therapy
- by Deirdre Barrett
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- Philology, Neuroscience, Psychology, Abnormal Psychology

El trastorno por estrés postraumático (TEPT) se presenta en sujetos que experimentaron, presenciaron o les explicaron algún acontecimiento con alto potencial traumático caracterizado por muerte o amenaza para su integridad física o la de otros. El TEPT consiste fundamentalmente en síntomas de reviviscencia (o reexperimentación), de evitación y de la actividad (arousal). Existe una alta comorbilidad con otros trastornos como son: trastornos afectivos, abuso y dependencia de sustancias, así como con problemas sociales, laborales y económicos. En México se ha estimado que hasta un 3% de la población cumple con los criterios de TEPT. Por ello resulta de gran importancia contar con modelos que permitan comprender el origen, desarrollo y mantenimiento de este trastorno. En este trabajo se revisan los principales modelos explicativos ofrecidos desde una perspectiva cognitivo conductual para este trastorno; El modelo del procesamiento emocional (Foa & Kosaks,1985); La teoría del procesamiento dual de Brewin, Daglesh y Josephs (1996); La teoría cognitiva de Ehlers y Clarck (2000); y La teoría cognitiva social de Resick, Monson y Chard (2008). Finalmente, se discuten las implicaciones clínicas derivadas de ellos.

- by Mario Guzmán Sescosse and +1
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- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Psichotherapy, Psichology
- by Facu Flores
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- Cognitive Neuroscience, Psichotherapy, Embodied and Enactive Cognition

A dizájner-használat, mint pszichológiai öngyógyító törekvés a pszichológiai tér közelség-távolság és a határok problematikája kapcsán. Megközelítések: tartalomelemzés, majd a családstruktúra vonatkozó következtetések, ezt követően pedig az elbeszélések közös jellegzetességeinek megállapítása.
Eredmények: az identitás alakulása nagymértékben függ a családstruktúrától, amely reprezentációk formájában továbbél az elbeszélőben és későbbi kapcsolataiban is megjelenik tér-, jelentés-, és identitásformáló tényezőként.
Kulcsszavak: narratíva, közelség-távolság, családstruktúra, dizájner drog, öngyógyító törekvés.

- by Attila Farkas
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- Family Therapy, Family studies, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Narrative Psychology
- by Deirdre Barrett
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- Neuroscience, Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Applied Psychology
- by Deirdre Barrett
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- Neuroscience, Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Applied Psychology
- by Deirdre Barrett
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- Neuroscience, Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Applied Psychology

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 accepted the new concept, were related to the differentiation from other concepts, more or less accepted by the psychological science: spirituality and religiosity. The main difficulties encountered by researchers were to define spiritual intelligence and to build an instrument that could be able to capture it.
For these reasons, this study aimed to identify a valid instrument for the Romanian population in order to measure spiritual intelligence and to capture its significant correlations. The research was conducted on a sample of 200 subjects, by means of the SISRI-24 questionnaire, that we translated and adapted, and it demonstrated a very good validity as far as both internal and external consistency are concerned. To this end, the investigated dimensions were: transcendence, the meaning of life and creativity.
This paper opens up a new perspective of research in the field, which should involve this new concept: “spiritual intelligence”.

- by Deirdre Barrett
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- Neuroscience, Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Applied Psychology

Die Autorin stellt die gestalttherapeutische Perspektive im Bereich der Psy- choonkologie vor. Dazu wird das Erleben auf körperlicher und Beziehungs- ebene in der Triade Patient-Familienmitglieder-Heilende analysiert. Es wer- den vier Bereiche der klinischen Intervention vorgestellt: ästhetische, funkti- onale, zönästhetische und liminare Zwischenkörperlichkeit. Die Grundzüge der Gestalttherapie werden in dem Prozess der Bewusstwerdung der Krank- heit angewandt. Dabei wird unterstrichen, wie die gestalttherapeutische Sicht die Grenzen des Modells von Kübler-Ross überwindet, damit die letzte Phase der Krankheit nicht das Annehmen des eigenen Todes sei, sondern das Er- reichen von Integrität und Lebenserfüllung.

- by PAOLA ARGENTINO
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- Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy and Counseling
- by Giovanni Salonia
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- Psychology, Psychotherapy, Gestalt Therapy, Postmodernism
- by Zulkarnain AS
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- Architecture, Vernacular Architecture, Energy Healing, Islamic architecture

Creative problem-solving dreams virtually always occur only after the dreamer has done
extensive work on the issue awake. Most typically, a person is stuck at one particular step
of a multiple phase process and the dream solves that step. The dream of Dmitri Mendeleev
about The Periodic Table of the Elements is no exception. All accounts of this event agree
that he’d worked for years on the Table, produced other drafts, but that he attributed the
version he was most satisfied with to a dream. It is less clear whether Kedrov is correct in
his reconstruction that it was the reversal of columns vs. rows which the dream provided.
Accounts of dreams from contemporary scientists and inventors are a richer source for the
detail required to generalize about the role of dreams in problem solving.

- by Deirdre Barrett
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- Neuroscience, Psychology, Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology
- by Deirdre Barrett
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- Neuroscience, Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Applied Psychology

Divorce is one of the most pressing problems of today, which generates a series of conflicts and discomforts during and after the process. Before the various situations that arise in the W.C.A.Sagency, it is determined to carry out a psychotherapeutic intervention strategy with the aim of enhancing feelings of security in a child within his social environment, whohas recently suffered separation from his parents. The method used has been the clinical and qualitative methodology, using the techniques of interviews, wishes, observations, drawing and applying an intervention strategy. The main results were qualitative changes in the child's manifestations, showing an improvement and assimilation of alternative behaviors and a decrease in maladaptive behaviors and the parents showed a relationship of respect, acceptance, harmony; better forms of communication and methods to educate the child

- by Revista Santiago ISSN 2227-6513
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- Psicologia Cognitiva, Psicology, Psichotherapy, Psicoterapia

This paper aims to study the connection between the identity construction and psychic maturity as fundamental elements of personality. In addition to the clarification and description of some important terms like "identity", "maturity", "Self", "Ego", the paper demonstrates the relations between the statuses of identity and the obtained levels of maturity, by means of scientific research. The identity and the psychic maturity describe in their correlation the archetypal phenomena: "Who am I?" and "The Great Journey". "The Great Journey" (individuation, self-becoming, actualization, Self-accomplishment) is still present among human beings, just as it was in ancient times. The research demonstrated the essential connection between the identity construction process and the psychic maturation process. The psychic maturity level reached by an individual depends on the way in which he succeeds in accepting and going through identity crises, eventually assuming a clear, precise and authentic personal identity. We cannot talk about psychic maturity as long as the person in question is not concerned with his/her own identity and either blocks his/her differentiation process in relation to the identities of the parents, or he/she absorbs some of their identity, consciously or less consciously.

- by Florin Vancea
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- Clinical Psychology, Psichotherapy, Psichology

The present paper is a study of the symptomatological triad consisting of anxiety, depression and self-dissatisfaction, which can be linked to the psychological maturation process. At the confluence of psychological health and psychological disorder, we find a field where the individual is confronted with the issue of personal growth. This process has been called either individualization (individuation), actualization, self-realization, or psychological maturation. According to humanistic and transpersonal psychology, this process leads the individual to become a genuine, mature, unified person, capable of expressing its major potentials. The research done with a 180-subject study group shows highly significant positive correlations between the three components of the triad on the one hand and highly significant negative correlations between each of these components and the level of psychological maturity. These results show that we can speak of an integrative three-dimensional anxiety-depression-self-dissatisfaction stricter structure that indirectly reflects the extent to which an individual has reached certain levels of psychological maturity. In this sense, the symptoms expressed through anxiety, depression, self-dissatisfaction, unrelated to disorders corresponding to the other psychological functions, actually express a blockage of the process of psychological maturation. From a psychotherapeutic point of view this conclusion shows the importance of focusing the intervention on the different aspects of the individuation process rather than reducing those symptoms.

- by Florin Vancea
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- Clinical Psychology, Personality Psychology, Psichotherapy

There is general consensus that an important par of success of psychotherapy depends on the relatiponship between patient and therapist. Psychotherapeutic models conceptualize the therapeutic relationship in various ways; in particular, this concept has important differences between the psychoanalytic perspective and the cognitive behavioral one. In this article, we attemp to outline the differences in the relevant literature and update the state of knowledge on this subject. According to these objectives, we discussed the main historical background of the therapeutic relationship and the classic and current lines of research on it. This article is a literature review of the information avaiable on EBSCO and Jstor databases. The Keywords used are: therapeutic relationship, therapeutic aliance, Psychoanalysis, CBT. We used data that was published after 1990

- by Martin Etchevers
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- Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Psychoanalysis
- by Florin Vancea
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- Clinical Psychology, Somatic Psychotherapy, Somatic Psychology, Psichotherapy
- by Florin Vancea
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- Clinical Psychology, Somatic Psychotherapy, Somatic Psychology, Psichotherapy

Abstract: This paper aims to present the first part of a study on body intelligence, a relatively
new concept that comes together with the most consecrated terms in the field such as cognitive
intelligence, emotional intelligence, or spiritual intelligence. The theoretical framework of the
paper is based on well known approaches such as Gardner's multiple intelligence theory, but also
on more recent neurological and psychological studies on the human body. This is a form of
knowledge that, although it is the first one to emerge in human ontogenesis, has not been much
studied and promoted and opposes rational or iconic knowledge.
In the research part, there is presented a first version of a questionnaire that measures the
level of body intelligence. This first variation of the questionnaire was based on the testing of a
group of 52 adult subjects. The item analysis revealed a good internal consistency given by an
alpha coefficient of 0.805.
The paper is a good starting point for continuing the study in order to establish the external
consistency of the questionnaire and to develop possible new variants.

- by Florin Vancea
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- Clinical Psychology, Somatic Psychotherapy, Somatic Psychology, Psichotherapy

Представлено результати емпіричного дослідження, у якому прийняли участь 246 осіб (112 чоловіків та 134 жінки). Серед них: 33 особи (5 осіб молодого віку, 24 особи зрілого віку та 4 особи похилого віку), які проживають в Донецьку (в зоні військового конфлікту); 34 особи (9 осіб молодого віку, 13 осіб зрілого віку та 12 осіб похилого віку), які проживають в місті Маріуполі, по напрямку до якого здійснюються військові дії; 38 осіб (6 осіб молодого віку, 26 осіб зрілого віку та 6 осіб похилого віку), які проживають в місті Києві, – переселенці з зони військового конфлікту; 129 осіб (108 осіб молодого віку, 21 особи зрілого віку) – студенти вищих навчальних закладів міста Києва; 12 осіб (7 осіб молодого віку, 5 осіб зрілого віку) – студенти Української Євангельської Теологічної Семінарії (Пуща Водиця). З метою дослідження особливостей взаємовідношень в родині та відношення до політико-правової сфери в умовах військового конфлікту в Україні нами використовувалися наступні методи: 2 авторські дослідницькі анкети та шкала оцінки впливу травматичних подій (М. J. Horowitz, N. Wilner). Емпірично встановлено, що у переселенців з зони військових дій спостерігається найбільш сильний вплив ситуації військового конфлікту в

- by Viyacheslav Khalanskyy and +1
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- Psychology, War Studies, Psichotherapy, Psychoterapy

Many of us would like to be good leaders. Is it possible? Do leaders are born with these characteristics, or they are being forged through education, environmental surroundings and contingencies? The answer seems to be quite obvious... more

- by Mário De Noronha
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- Leadership, Psichotherapy

Introduction: It has been recently proven in repeated studies and publications that emotional intelligence is responsible for the successes and achievements in different existential dimensions, especially through the qualitative increase of interpersonal relationships. Also, several hypotheses were issued regarding the fact that the level of emotional intelligence may be increased through various creative activities and educational-therapeutic programs. Objectives: The present study aimes to investigate the dynamics of emotional intelligence in relation to the participation in a unifying personal development program through dance and movement. To this end, we covered two major stages and objectives at the same time: 1 – building up and implementing a unifying personal development program through dance and movement (UPDDM) and 2 – conducting a statistically quantitative study in order to capture the effects of the program on emotional intelligence, as well as the correlation between ...

- by Florin Vancea
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- Clinical Psychology, Somatic Psychotherapy, Somatic Psychology, Psichotherapy
- by Florin Vancea
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- Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Personality Psychology, Psichotherapy

ABSTRACT Introduction: It has been recently proven in repeated studies and publications that emotional intelligence is responsible for the successes and achievements in different existential dimensions, especially through the qualitative increase of interpersonal relationships. Also, several hypotheses were issued regarding the fact that the level of emotional intelligence may be increased through various creative activities and educational-therapeutic programs. Objectives: The present study aimes to investigate the dynamics of emotional intelligence in relation to the participation in a unifying personal development program through dance and movement. To this end, we covered two major stages and objectives at the same time: 1 – building up and implementing a unifying personal development program through dance and movement (UPDDM) and 2 – conducting a statistically quantitative study in order to capture the effects of the program on emotional intelligence, as well as the correlation between it and the self-satisfaction regarding the physical body. Method: The experimental-quantitative research was conducted on an experimental sample, composed of 32 persons and a control sample composed of 32 persons as well. The method of applying the instruments was the test-retest type. The initial testing was at the beginning of the program and the retesting took place two months after its finalization. There was a period of six months between the test and retest. The conducted experiment consisted in a program called "Filia Alchemic Dance", composed of 3 modules, 20 hours long each, every two months. "Filia Alchemic Dance" is a complex program, based on UPDDM and, implicitly, on the Experiential Therapy of Unification. Results: The results obtained after the statistical data processing show significant differences between the control group and the experimental one in the two main variables, emotional intelligence and self-satisfaction regarding the physical body. There is a strong positive correlation between these variables, which confirms the hypotheses of the research. Conclusions: The study demonstrated that unifying personal development, with corporal support, in this case through dance and movement, is a valid method of increasing the emotional intelligence by reconnecting with one's own body and through the inner unification between body, emotion, reason and spirit.

Introduction: The psychotherapeutic program "Filia Alchemic Dance", developed ever since 2006 in Braşov, represents a holistic and integrative approach to human personality, having as a main frame the "Unifying Experiential Psychotherapy" method. This program combines the efficiency of dance and movement therapies, as creative-expressive methods, with the effectiveness of body psychotherapies and transpersonal approaches which use the amplified consciousness states.