Publications by authors named "Michela Gecele"
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- This paper talks about how therapists can help people change their thoughts and feelings by surprising them in a good way.
- It says that when these surprises happen, people can start to think and feel differently, which helps them break old habits.
- The researchers believe that understanding and being open to new experiences can make therapy work better in the future.
Drawing from field theory, Gestalt therapy conceives psychological suffering and psychotherapy as two intentional field phenomena, where unprocessed and chaotic experiences seek the opportunity to emerge and be assimilated through the contact between the patient and the therapist (i.e., the intentionality of contacting).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe diagnostic process in psychotherapy using the aesthetic evaluation is described in this article. Unlike the classical diagnostic process, which presents a result of comparing clinicians´ observations with a diagnostic system (DSM, ICD, etc.), the aesthetic evaluation is a pre-reflexive, embodied, and preverbal process.
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