scholarly journals A Psychospiritual Exploration of the Transpersonal Self as the Ground of Healing

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 725
Author(s):  
Monique M. Verrier
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Spiritual Healing ◽  
The Self ◽  
Addiction Recovery ◽  
Inner Experiences ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Interventions ◽  
Therapeutic Benefits ◽  
Internal Family Systems ◽  
Kashmir Shaivism ◽  
Transpersonal Self

This paper focuses on the transpersonal Self as the psychological and spiritual healing factor in psychotherapy and addiction recovery, and illustrates the importance of bringing awareness of the Self and the energy of wholeness into focus with clients in the therapeutic process. The concept and experience of Self is explored through the psychospiritual therapeutic model of Internal Family Systems and through a spiritual lens of the nondual wisdom traditions derived from Advaita Vedanta and aspects of Kashmir Shaivism. Obstacles to the recognition of Self, approaches to facilitating this recognition, and the therapeutic benefits of knowing the essential Self are examined through the author’s personal experience with these models and their use in overcoming depression, anxiety, eating disorders and addiction. Psychotherapeutic interventions that support making contact with the Self are examined as well as the implications of Self-knowing on personal relationships, behavior and inner experiences, as well as how one relates to others and the world.

AAC Collaboration Using the Self-Anchored Rating Scales (SARS): An Aphasia Case Study

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 136-143
Author(s):  
Lynn E. Fox
Keyword(s):  
Augmentative And Alternative Communication ◽  
Rating Scales ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Family Counseling ◽  
The Self ◽  
Alternative Communication ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Solution Focused

Abstract The self-anchored rating scale (SARS) is a technique that augments collaboration between Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) interventionists, their clients, and their clients' support networks. SARS is a technique used in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, a branch of systemic family counseling. It has been applied to treating speech and language disorders across the life span, and recent case studies show it has promise for promoting adoption and long-term use of high and low tech AAC. I will describe 2 key principles of solution-focused therapy and present 7 steps in the SARS process that illustrate how clinicians can use the SARS to involve a person with aphasia and his or her family in all aspects of the therapeutic process. I will use a case study to illustrate the SARS process and present outcomes for one individual living with aphasia.

scholarly journals An Overview of the Psychodynamics of Addiction

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 363-369
Author(s):  
César A. Alfonso
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
The Self ◽  
Epigenetic Changes ◽  
Novelty Seeking ◽  
Self Medication ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Interventions ◽  
Adverse Childhood ◽  
Abuse And Neglect

The author provides an overview of the psychodynamics of addiction, diverging from outdated conceptualizations such as orality and regression, and emphasizing the clinical relevance of the self-medication hypothesis. Rado and Bion paved the way for Khantzian's self-medication hypothesis by describing the drug user's need to escape unpleasure and seek self- containment. The author reviews research corroborating the relevance of the self-medication hypothesis and other relevant constructs such as self-deceptive attempts at adaptation, inability to prioritize self-care or delay gratification, excessive hedonism and novelty seeking, and impulsivity. Adverse childhood experiences, abuse and neglect are known to cause epigenetic changes altering gene expression, which may endure throughout life and be transmitted intergenerationally. Effective psychotherapeutic interventions have the potential to reverse DNA methylation and other epigenetic changes triggered by trauma and co-morbid psychopathology. Lastly, this editorial also introduces the psychodynamically informed clinical recommendations of Baurer and Gottdiener, further described in separate articles in this issue of Psychodynamic Psychiatry.

scholarly journals An Education for Life: The Process of Learning the Alexander Technique

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 190-198
Author(s):  
Charlotte Woods ◽  
Lesley Glover ◽  
Julia Woodman
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Alexander Technique ◽  
Therapeutic Benefits ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Management Method ◽  
Primary Focus

The Alexander technique is an educational self-development self-management method with therapeutic benefits. The primary focus of the technique is learning about the self, conceptualized as a mind–body unity. Skills in the technique are gained experientially, including through hands-on and spoken guidance from a certified Alexander teacher, often using everyday movement such as walking and standing. In this article the authors summarize key evidence for the effectiveness of learning the Alexander technique and describe how the method was developed. They attempt to convey a sense of the unique all-encompassing and fundamental nature of the technique by exploring the perspectives of those engaged in teaching and learning it and conclude by bringing together elements of this account with relevant strands of qualitative research to view this lived experience in a broader context.

Encounters with Modernity among Received Spiritualities and Traditions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Candy Gunther Brown
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Spiritual Healing ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
The Self ◽  
Divine Healing ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Modern Technologies

This chapter canvasses the various meanings of modernity and secularization, and develops a partial typology of Protestant reactions to these key themes of the twentieth century. Through the author’s expertise in global charismatic and divine healing movements, and shifting interpretations of sacred texts and religious practice, the chapter notes six categories of Protestant responses, which are to: (1) reinterpret the Bible in light of modern scholarship; (2) reaffirm the Bible’s authoritative status; (3) recontextualize the Bible in light of modern society and culture; (4) reinterpret medical materialism through the prism of biblical supernaturalism; (5) reassess the Bible’s compatibility with a plurality of spiritual healing resources; and (6) reappropriate modern technologies for traditional biblical ends. The chapter notes the challenges to the standard secularization theory, and to the self-definition of Protestant dissenting movements, as they move around the world. It illustrates these points with particular reference to the rise of African indigenous charismatic dissenting practice, starting with key figures such as William Wadé Harris.

scholarly journals Modern Neuropsychoanalysis as an Integrative Scientific and Therapeutic Practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-78
Author(s):  
E.G. Eidemiller ◽  
A.E. Tarabanov
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Self ◽  
Incoming Flow ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Therapeutic Practice ◽  
Building Models ◽  
The World ◽  
Neural Interactions ◽  
The Brain

We present the analysis of the main provisions of neuropsychoanalysis — a theory integrating psychoanalysis and neurosciences. The main prerequisites for the emergence of neuropsychoanalysis are described. Being developed along the principles of integration and convergence of sciences, neuropsychoanalysis faces complex theoretical and practical challenges, such as explaining the results of neuroscientific studies, building models of brain and psyche relationship and interpreting therapeutic process from the point of view of neural interactions. Neuropsychoanalysis as an integrative psychotherapeutic paradigm has been proven clinically usable; it helps form a new neurobiological perspective of psychotherapeutic relations. We emphasize the phenomenon of interpretation, which is essential both for understanding the functioning of the brain, building the models of the self and the world on the basis of interpreting the incoming flow of signals, and for effective therapeutic practice, where the client reinterprets and integrates traumatic narratives by incorporating repressed content of the unconscious contents.

‘Gestures that do’: Spiritist manifestations and the technologies of religious subjectivation and affect

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 385-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raquel Romberg
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Moral Economy ◽  
Spiritual Healing ◽  
The Self ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
The Past ◽  
Religious Significance ◽  
Religious Subject

This article explores theoretically and ethnographically how gestures ‘do’ within Spiritist religious practices. According to the emic Spiritist notion of ‘manifestations’, certain gestures can bridge between material and spiritual realms and the various dimensions of the self. Embodying the moral economy and dispositions of Spiritism, such gestures are thereby investigated as affective and practical technologies for constituting the religious subject within Spiritism without passing by belief and cognition. Based on close ethnographic accounts and visual documentation of the work of Puerto Rican healers, the author traces the performative illocutionary power of gestures during cleansing, divination, healing and possession rituals. Finally, she proposes ‘inter-gesturality’ as a way to address the power relations behind gestural ‘quotations’ and to trace the embodied interrelationships that have shaped in the past and are shaping in the present the religious significance of gestures, the emotions they elicit, the religious subjectification processes they constitute and the spiritual healing they can promote.

scholarly journals Person centered psychotherapy: an encounter with oneself or a confrontation with the other?

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuel Meireles Vieira ◽  
Francisco Pablo Huascar Aragão Pinheiro
Keyword(s):  
Change Process ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Clinical Case ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Therapeutic Change ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Person Centered Approach ◽  
The Relationship

The paper discusses the possibilities of host of alterity in the therapeutic process of the Person Centered Approach. The debate is based on the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas, for whom subjectivity would be formed from the relationship with the absolute other. The therapeutic change process that aims to further integrate the experience by the self is questioned. On the other hand, from a reading of a Rogerian clinical case, it is pointed out the externality of experience as an estrangement that allows one to recreate themselves. This research shows the interiority eroded by the organism that arises as other-of-self, sieve for the experience. It is conclude that the person-centered psychotherapy, beyond an encounter with oneself, seems to point as one of its purposes the clash with the radically different. Such discussion alludes to a political repositioning of the Person Centered Approach in its ways to deal with the difference.

scholarly journals The Orem theory and its applicability in chronic renal patient care/A Teoria de Orem e sua aplicabilidade na assistência ao paciente renal crônico/La Teoría de Orem y su aplicabilidad en la atención al paciente crónico renal

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Jaira Santos Silva
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Kidney Disease ◽  
Kidney Disease ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Nursing Care ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Self Care ◽  
The Self ◽  
Nursing Theory ◽  
Treatment And Prevention ◽  
Renal Patient

ABSTRACT Objective: To reflect on the applicability of Orem Theory in chronic renal patient care. Methodology: reflective, based on the analysis and interpretation of articles and books, to enable understanding of the possibilities of application of the Theory of Self-care to patients with chronic kidney disease, with a view to deepening the theme. Results: The Theory of Self-care is an essential tool in the focus of care for this patient, since it allows to a better understanding of the pathology and the therapeutic process, better acceptance of their treatment and prevention of  complications. Conclusion: The nursing care associated with the theory allows to emphasize the commitment of the professional and the client, engaging in the self-care. Keywords: Chronic Renal Patient. Nursing Theory. Self Care. RESUMO Objetivo: Refletir sobre a aplicabilidade da Teoria de Orem na assistência ao paciente renal crônico. Metodologia: Estudo reflexivo, com base na análise e interpretação de artigos e livros, para possibilitar a compreensão acerca das possibilidades de aplicação da Teoria do Autocuidado ao paciente renal crônico, numa perspectiva de aprofundamento da temática. Resultados: A teoria do Autocuidado constitui ferramenta essencial no foco da assistência a esse paciente, uma vez que possibilita ao mesmo um melhor conhecimento sobre a patologia e o processo terapêutico, melhor aceitação de seu tratamento e prevenção de complicações. Conclusão: A assistência de enfermagem associada à teoria permite enfatizar o compromisso do profissional com o cliente, engajando- o no autocuidado. Descritores: Paciente Renal Crônico. Teoria de Enfermagem. Autocuidado. RESUMEN Objetivo: Reflexionar sobre la aplicabilidad de la teoría de Orem en el cuidado del paciente renal crónico. Metodología: reflexiva, basada en el análisis e interpretación de los artículos y libros, para permitir la comprensión de las posibilidades de aplicación de la Teoría de la Auto-atención a los pacientes con enfermedad renal crónica, con el fin de profundizar en el tema. Resultados: La teoría de autocuidado es una herramienta esencial en el foco de atención de este paciente, ya que permite una mejor comprensión de la patología y el proceso terapéutico, una mejor aceptación de su tratamiento y la prevención de las complicaciones. Conclusión: La atención de enfermería asociado con la teoría permite destacar el compromiso de los profesionales y el cliente, con la participación en el autocuidado. Descriptors: Paciente Renal Crónico. Teoría de Enfermería. Autocuidado. 

scholarly journals Fighter, Corpsman, Partisan an Attempt to Typify Former Soldiers Based on their Coping and Defense Mechanisms

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 370-391
Author(s):  
Loni Brants ◽  
Katrin Schuy ◽  
Simone Dors ◽  
Marie Horzetzky ◽  
Heinrich Rau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Defense Mechanisms ◽  
Coping Mechanisms ◽  
The Self ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Interventions ◽  
Qualitative Survey ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Typological Classification

AbstractThis work strives to develop a typological classification of the use of conscious and unconscious defense and coping mechanisms based on methodically and structurally collected data from a qualitative survey of 43 former soldiers in Germany. Seven coping and defense types were identified: the Fighter, the Comrade, the Corpsman, the Strategist, the Partisan, the Self-Protector and the Infantryman. The types identified differed with regard to the accumulation, combination, and use of their conscious and unconscious defense and coping mechanisms in the superordinate areas of behaviour, relationships, emotions, reflexivity and time focus. The typological classification could offer psychotherapeutic interventions tailored to individuals and their defense and coping mechanisms, which could lead to improved therapy use and compliance.

scholarly journals Expressive Flamenco ©: An Emerging Expressive Arts-Based Practice

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Sánchez García ◽  
Angelica Pinna-Perez
Keyword(s):  
Expressive Arts ◽  
The Self ◽  
Dance Movement ◽  
Main Hypothesis ◽  
Authentic Self ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Emotional Process ◽  
Therapeutic Benefits ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Art Form

AbstractExpressive Flamenco© theory and praxis is presented by Sánchez through this art-based personal reflection paper, which explores the applications of flamenco for its inherent psycho-somatic therapeutic capacities. She asserts the applied practice of flamenco (in its broadest definition), when combined with other expressive arts practices, can have therapeutic benefits; including (but not limited to) psycho-social, spiritual, and aesthetic connection to the individual's unconscious. During these experiences of arts based emotional expression, one can transcend the self into divine connection with their authentic self, what the author understands as the “duende”. By allowing one’s authentic truth to be expressed through Expressive Flamenco©, a spirit of evocation, born from within the self, appears when the self-connects with and is in creative conversation with its unconscious. The main hypothesis asserts the emergence of the “duende” facilitates an epistemological process of self-knowledge and an emotional process of catharsis, suggesting that when this art form is utilized as ‘Expressive Flamenco’ it helps facilitate holistic healing. This paper aims to stretch flamenco into new applied therapeutic practice territories, specifically in the arts therapies. Practical applications of Expressive Flamenco in the expressive therapies, including expressive arts therapy and dance/movement therapy, is presented along with the preliminary results of a virtual telehealth group facilitated during Covid-19. Professor Pinna-Perez′s critical reflections on Expressive Flamenco© and its importance to the field is presented in response to this emerging expressive arts practice.

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