The Dynamics of the Personal and Familial Change in the Anxious Patient Through the Experiential Psychotherapeutic Aapproach. A Case Study.
Journal Title: Journal of Experiential Psychotherapy - Year 2014, Vol 17, Issue 2
Abstract
Introduction: With a view on understanding the general framework of the anxiety issue within which change must be operated, one must investigate both the therapist’s and the client’s perspective from the very beginning. The challenge of finding out what lies under the so complex symptoms of anxiety, of discovering what mechanisms cause, facilitate and fuel them, by retracing, understanding and giving new significance to every client’s life story thread, constitutes the most laborious and, at the same time, the most exciting aspect both for the therapist and for the client. Objectives: The general objective of the paper consists in identifying the mechanism of individual change within the integrative-unifying psychotherapeutic labour, while the practical-applicative one refers to offering a possible methodological register in order for practitioners to be capable of monitoring the dynamics. Method: The present paper represents „an excerpt” from an ampler study that analysed, using qualitative methodology, the effects of the integrative-unifying therapeutic endeavour of experiential type on anxious-depressive disorders. Results: The effects resulting from an integrative psychotherapeutic endeavour of experiential type on people suffering from subclinical anxious-depressive disorder, who were monitored dynamically and during follow-up, were the following: the remission of the anxious-depressive disorder symptoms, assuming anxiety as an emotional state signalling misbalance that can be solved by discovering the mechanism causing it and by connecting to one’s own resources, by identifying blocking and neurotic repetitive individual behavioural patterns with similar finality and individual psychological mechanisms of anxiety. Conclusions: The structuring on three dimensions (symptoms, the existential dimension and the dimension across generations) of working methods and techniques used within the integrative-unifying psychotherapeutic endeavour highlights the importance of monitoring the client’s individual dynamics.
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Sandrina Mindu
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