The Patient S Change Understanding The Complexity Of The Dynamics Of Change And Its Precursors In Psychotherapy

The Patient’s Change: Understanding the Complexity of the Dynamics of Change and its Precursors in Psychotherapy

Introducción a las psicoterapias psicodinámicas, experienciales, sistémicas, constructivistas e integradoras

Introducción a las Psicoterapias Psicodinámicas, Experienciales, Sistémicas, Constructivistas e Integradoras recoge los contenidos teóricos del segundo cuatrimestre de la asignatura Introducción a los Tratamientos Psicodinámicos, Experienciales, Sistémicos, Constructivistas e Integradores, materia opcional de la especialidad de Psicología Clínica del grado en Psicología ofrecido por la UNED. En consecuencia, el libro ha sido elaborado con las pautas metodológicas habituales en los textos básicos de esta universidad, ya que su objetivo no es otro que proporcionar a sus alumnos una formación significativa y rigurosa en los temas que aborda. Por ello, este libro constituye un expositor, contextualizado y crítico, de contenidos que la producción editorial presenta habitualmente de manera desmembrada. En definitiva, este libro constituye un manual para obtener una visión de conjunto de los ámbitos psicoterapéuticos ajenos a la intervención cognitivo-conductual.VÁLIDO A PARTIR CURSO 23/24.

Dynamic systems theory and embodiment in psychotherapy research. A new look at process and outcome

In an attempt to cease from reducing the world and its (emergent) phenomena to linear modeling and analytic dissection, Dynamic Systems Theories (DST) and Embodiment theories and methods aim at accounting for the complex, dynamic, and non-linear phenomena that we constantly deal with in psychology. For instance, DST and Embodiment can enrich psychology’s understanding of the communicative process both in clinical and non-clinical settings. In psychotherapy, an important amount of research has shown that – next to other ingredients – the therapeutic relationship is the most important active factor contributing to psychotherapy outcome. These findings give communication a central role in the psychotherapy process. In the traditional view, the underlying model of understanding psychotherapy processes is that of a number of components summatively coming together enabling us to make a linear causal prediction. Yet, communication is inherently dynamic. A shift to viewing the communication process in psychotherapy as a field dynamic phenomenon helps us to take into account nonlinear phenomena, such as feedback processes within and between persons. We thus propose an embodied enactive dynamic systems view as a new theoretical and methodological perspective that can more realistically capture what happens among and between two persons in psychotherapy. This view reaches beyond the current narrow model of psychotherapy research. DST and Embodied Enactive Approaches can offer solutions to the loss of non-linear phenomena, the complex dynamics of reality, and the holistic level of analysis. DST and Embodied Enactive Approaches have developed not in a single discipline but in a joined movement based on various fields such as physics, biology, robotics, anthropology, philosophy, linguistics, neuroscience, and psychology, and have only recently entered clinical theorizing. The two new paradigms have already triggered a rethinking of the therapeutic exchange by recognizing the embodied nature of psychological and communicative phenomena. Their integration opens up a promising scenario in the field of psychotherapy research, developing new, profoundly transdisciplinary, theoretical concepts, methodologies, and standards of knowledge. The notion of field dynamics enables us to account for the role of the communicational context in the regulation of intra-psychological processes, while at the same time avoiding the pitfalls of an ontologization of the hierarchy of systemic organization. Moreover, the new approach implements methodological strategies that can transcend the conventional opposition between idiographic and nomothetic sciences.