How to Bring about Some Very Good Moments in Psychotherapy Sessions

The Promotion and Use of Strong Feelings in Psychotherapy

Judges examined audiotapes of 15 sessions conducted by experienced therapists representative of psychodynamic-psychoanalytic, humanistic-experiential, behavioral-cognitive, and integrative-eclectic approaches. Each session contained multiple instances of clients’ strong feelings. The findings yielded (a) five explicit methods for promoting strong feelings, each with its own contributing client condition; (b) five ways of using the occurrence of strong feelings; and (c) an overall patterned sequence of uses during a session.

Studying Distinguished Practitioners: a Humanistic Approach to Discovering How to Do Psychotherapy

One laborious, although not especially common, way to learn how to do psychotherapy is to spend nearly four decades studying taped sessions of distinguished psychotherapists. This article explains how one humanistic psychotherapist came to do this, and reports the findings of a long-term series of studies growing out of years of personal tape listening. The findings include a series of steps that occur in therapy sessions to form the cornerstone of an experiential psychotherapy.

The Anatomy of Emotions in Family Therapy with Adolescents

Emotions in adolescence can be consideredfrom a variety of viewpoints. Although it is not uncommon to address this topic within nonclinical and clinical populations, examination of emotions in adolescence from a treatment or intervention perspective is more unusual. This article discusses the emotions in adolescence literature from the vantage point of a particular, empirically-testedfamily-based intervention model, multidimensionalfamily therapy. Addressing the contemporary challenge to specify how research can influence practice, the article shows how research-based concepts guideformulation of therapeutic strategy, as well as a therapist's in-session behavior. Transcripts with commentaryfrom afamily therapy sessionfocus on a core emotion-relatedproblem with clinical and mtany nonclinical adolescents and their parents-chronic, stable, quick-to-escalate negative emotional exchanges between an adolescent and parent.

Momentos de comunicação intensa entre terapeuta e cliente: análise fenomenológica de depoimentos

Descreve a estrutura da experiência de comunicação intensa entre terapeuta e cliente, vivida durante sessões de psicoterapia, através da análise fenomenológica de depoimentos de psicoterapeutas. Fundamenta-se na Abordagem Centrada na Pessoa (ACP), com enfoque experiencial, tendo uma ênfase existencial-fenomenológica, Utiliza o método fenomenológico aplicado à pesquisa em psicologia clínica. Os colaboradores são sete psicoterapeutas experientes, de orientação humanística, provenientes de diversas regiões do país, aos quais se fez o pedido: "conte-me um momento de comunicação intensa entre terapeuta e cliente, vivido por você enquanto psicoterapeuta". Conclui que os momentos de comunicação intensa referem-se à mudança terapêutica, e dão-se através de uma experiência compartilhada na relação interpessoal estabelecida entre terapeuta e cliente, onde ocorre uma co-experienciação. As condições facilitadoras para a ocorrência destes momentos são a empatia, enquanto atitude tanto do terapeuta como do cliente, indissociável da autenticidade e da aceitação positiva incondicional; os sentimentos e a expressividade, tanto do terapeuta como do cliente, assim como a sensibilidade e capacidade de compreender o que está experienciando do terapeuta.