Psychotherapy: A World of Meanings
| Autor: | Sibylle Meier, Jens Gaab, Cosima Locher |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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narrative
Psychotherapist media_common.quotation_subject lcsh:BF1-990 Psychological intervention Context (language use) 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Empirical research Intervention (counseling) Psychology Conceptual Analysis 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Narrative Meaning (existential) Function (engineering) General Psychology media_common Modalities 05 social sciences meaning psychotherapy lcsh:Psychology plausibility placebo 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 10 (2019) Frontiers in Psychology |
| ISSN: | 1664-1078 |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00460/full |
| Popis: | Despite a wealth of findings that psychotherapy is an effective psychological intervention the principal mechanisms of psychotherapy change are still in debate. It has been suggested that all forms of psychotherapy provide a context which enables clients to transform the meaning of their experiences and symptoms in such a way as to help clients to feel better, and function more adaptively. However, psychotherapy is not the only healthcare intervention that has been associated with ‘meaning’: the reason why placebo have effects has also been proposed to be a ‘meaning response’. Thus, it has been argued that the meaning of treatments has a central impact on beneficial (and by extension, negative) health-related responses. In light of the strong empirical support of a contextual understanding of psychotherapy and its effects, the aim of this conceptual analysis is to examine the role of meaning and its transformation in psychotherapy – in general – and within three different, commonly-used psychotherapy modalities. |
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