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A diagram of the Expressive Therapies Continuum, depicting three horizontal levels of information processing and their potential for integration through creative mental activity, represented by the vertical “CR” level or dimension. The diagram first appeared in Imagery and Visual Expression in Therapy by Vija B. Lusebrink (1990). [1]
The conversational model of psychotherapy was devised by the English psychiatrist Robert Hobson, and developed by the Australian psychiatrist Russell Meares. Hobson listened to recordings of his own psychotherapeutic practice with more disturbed clients, and became aware of the ways in which a patient's self—their unique sense of personal being—can come alive and develop, or be destroyed ...
The Method of Levels originated in Bill Powers' phenomenological investigations into the mobility of awareness relative to the perceptual hierarchy. [3] He prepared a description of it for his 1973 book, Behavior: The Control of Perception, but the editor persuaded him to remove that chapter and the chapter on emotion. [4]
This is an alphabetical list of psychotherapies. This list contains some approaches that may not call themselves a psychotherapy but have a similar aim of improving mental health and well-being through talk and other means of communication.
Conversation theory is a cybernetic approach to the study of conversation, cognition and learning that may occur between two participants who are engaged in conversation with each other. [1] [2] [3] It presents an experimental framework heavily utilizing human-computer interactions and computer theoretic models as a means to present a ...
Dyadic joint attention is a conversation-like behavior that individuals engage in. This is especially true for human adults and infants, who engage in this behavior starting at two months of age. [2] Adults and infants take turns exchanging facial expressions, noises, and in the case of the adult, speech.
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Interpersonal therapy is intended to be completed within 12–16 weeks. IPT is based on the principle that relationships and life events impact mood and vice versa. [1] [2] The treatment was developed by Gerald Klerman and Myrna Weissman in order to treat major depression in the 1970s and has since been adapted for other mental disorders. [3]