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Mindfulness-Based IARA Model® Proves Effective to Reduce Stress and Anxiety in Health Care Professionals. A Six-Month Follow-Up Study
Changes in the health care environment, together with specific work-related stressors and the consequences on workers’ health and performance, have led to the implementation of prevention strategies. Among the different approaches, those which are mindfulness-based have been institutionally recommended with an indication provided as to their effectiveness in the management of stress. The aim of the present study was to analyze the efficacy of the mindfulness-based IARA Model® (an Italian acronym translatable into meeting, compliance, responsibility, autonomy) in order to ameliorate perceived stress, anxiety and enhance emotional regulation among health care professionals (HCPs; i.e., doctors, nurses, and healthcare assistants). Four hundred and ninety-seven HCPs, 215 (57.2%) of which were women, were randomly assigned to a mindfulness-based training or control group and agreed to complete questionnaires on emotion regulation difficulties (DERS), anxiety, and perceived stress. Results showed that HCPs who attended the IARA training, compared to the control group, had better emotional regulation, anxiety and stress indices after 6 months from the end of the intervention. Furthermore, the results confirmed the positive relationship between emotional regulation, perceived stress and anxiety. The present study contributes to literature by extending the effectiveness of IARA in improving emotional regulation and well-being in non-clinical samples. Moreover, the study provides support for the idea that some specific emotional regulation processes can be implicated in perceived stress and anxiety. From the application point of view, companies should invest more in stress management intervention, monitoring and training, in order to develop worker skills, emotional self-awareness, and relational resources.
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The erotic operator’s drive (EOD): A regulated symbolic model for persistent affective material in psychotherapy
This article presents the Erotic Operator’s Drive (EOD) as a conceptual and clinically generative symbolic framework for understanding persistent affective material in psychotherapy. Psychotherapeutic practice frequently encounters persistent internal material — images, fantasies, bodily sensations, affective states, or ideational loops — that resists attenuation through cognitive insight, emotional expression, or behavioral regulation. While such material is often categorized as trauma residue, maladaptive fantasy, or compulsive ideation, these explanations insufficiently account for cases in which the material remains energetically active, symbolically charged, and clinically productive only when approached indirectly. This paper introduces the Erotic Operator’s Drive (EOD) as a regulated symbolic – energetic framework for assessing, containing, and transforming such material. Building on Ow’s earlier formulation of precanonical symbolic rituals and the erotic archive, EOD formalizes a decision-gated model that distinguishes signal from noise, regulates engagement through operator selection, and resolves high-intensity affective material through a five-phase symbolic protocol. Central to the model is Ve (Erotic Voltage), a construct denoting the intensity of symbolic – affective charge carried by internal experience. EOD reframes erotic material not as sexual behavior or expressive permission, but as life-force energy requiring containment, orientation, and closure. The model integrates psychosynthesis, imaginal psychology, depth-oriented sexological theory, and trauma-informed clinical ethics to offer a method for working with eroticized affect without enactment, boundary violation, or interpretive reduction. The article does not report outcome data, but develops a theory-informed protocol and proposes directions for case-based and pilot evaluation.
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Internal family systems skills training manual : trauma-informed treatment for anxiety, depression, PTSD & substance abuse
Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) provides a revolutionary treatment plan for PTSD, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, eating disorders and more.
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A Psychotherapy of Love
This book shows what psychosynthesis looks like in the empirical practice of psychotherapy. Originally conceived by Italian psychiatrist Robert Assagioli, psychosynthesis is one of the first Western psychologies that addresses both spiritual and psychological healing and growth through self-realization. In effect, it offers an approach to psychotherapy founded in altruistic love, and the nurturing that supports the innate drive within human beings to embrace and actualize the whole of who they are. Authors John Firman and Ann Gila include experientially based models and theory, case studies from both the client and therapist perspectives, and an invitation for both the professional and the layperson to the self-reflection, inner work, and commitment necessary to love and work at this depth. After an overview of the fundamentals of psychosynthesis theory, the authors explore how a therapist's own embrace of these ideas can foster an altruistic, empathetic love that supports and improves therapist-client rapport and progress.
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Psychosynthesis: A Foundational Bridge Between Psychology and Spirituality
Pastoral psychologists have long tried to establish a working model that encompasses the seemingly conflicting disciplines of science and religion. Psychosynthesis, a transpersonal psychology and therapeutic approach, offers such a model of the human personality, in which the psychological and spiritual perspectives can converge. This article explores psychosynthesis psychology and therapy as a theoretical framework for pastoral psychology. Although psychosynthesis psychotherapy relies on an array of techniques, it fundamentally works with the clients’ will while emphasizing, exploring, and cultivating their relationships on all levels—intrapersonal, interpersonal, and with the Higher Self. In addition to the subconscious, psychosynthesis includes a higher psychological plane, called the superconscious, from which our higher ethical, aesthetic, scientific, and spiritual values are derived. This article begins by introducing psychosynthesis concepts and techniques. It then provides qualitative findings showing that psychosynthesis counseling helped to awaken spirituality in three out of eleven clients who had formerly identified themselves as atheists. In addition, testimonies are included that show that psychosynthesis counseling also helped all eleven clients to attain personal growth. Finally, the counselor describes her experience of psychosynthesis as a Christian in the therapeutic setting. The framework of psychosynthesis psychology and its techniques are viable methodologies for anyone searching to incorporate spiritual growth into a psychological working model.
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Internal Family Systems Therapy
Internal family systems therapy, or IFS, is one of the fastest growing models of psychotherapy today. Focused on psychic multiplicity and the healing effects of compassion, this non-pathologizing therapy has been adopted by clinicians around the world. Internal Family Systems Therapy builds on Richard Schwartz's foundational introductory texts, illustrating how the IFS protocol can be applied to a variety of therapy modalities and patient populations.Each chapter provides clear, practical guidance and clinical illustrations. While addressing questions from therapists who are exploring the model or wonder about its applicability, Internal Family Systems Therapy is also essential reading for knowledgeable IFS clinicians.
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Theory and Practice of Sensorimotor Psychosynthesis
AbstractThis article presents the theory and practical application of a promising technique called sensorimotor psychosynthesis, which permits the induction of an altered state of consciousness in a patient. A state termed the “entangled state” in quantum physics and an empathy state in psychology emerges as the therapist (suggester) and the patient interact. The active dialogue between the suggester and the patient is the major distinctive feature of the sensorimotor psychosynthesis method and the major difference between this method and directive hypnosis. The authors describe a dynamic transformation of the worldviews (or mentality) in a number of patients during psychotherapy. This transformation occurred due to the construction of semantic spaces, a major psychosemantic approach to personality analysis, which involves the construction of a unique reality by the patient in an altered state of consciousness and the patient’s existence in this reality, which conforms to the patient’s desires and motives. Applications of the method in psychotherapy, sports, and criminal investigations are discussed.
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