Nature heals: An informational entropy account of self-organization and change in field psychotherapy

P Sarasso, W Tschacher, F Schoeller… - Physics of Life …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper reviews biophysical models of psychotherapeutic change based on synergetics
and the free energy principle. These models suggest that introducing sensory surprise into …

How do adolescents use social networks and what are their potential dangers? A qualitative study of gender differences

G de Felice, J Burrai, E Mari, F Paloni, G Lausi… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The rapid development of software applications and the increasing use of the Internet have
raised many questions about the impact of this technology on the lives of adolescents …

The misleading Dodo Bird verdict. How much of the outcome variance is explained by common and specific factors?

G De Felice, A Giuliani, S Halfon, S Andreassi… - New Ideas in …, 2019 - Elsevier
The literature on psychotherapy research makes use of the so-called" Dodo Bird Verdict" to
show that therapeutic change owes more to common factors than to specific techniques …

Mentalization and the growth of symbolic play and affect regulation in psychodynamic therapy for children with behavioral problems

S Halfon, P Bulut - Psychotherapy Research, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: Children with behavioral problems often have problems with symbolic play
organization, specifically with the regulation of negative affect and its representation. One of …

Measuring intimate partner violence and traumatic affect: Development of VITA, an Italian scale

G Troisi - Frontiers in psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
In a global context where the percentage of women who are victim of violence is still high,
intimate partner violence (IPV) can be considered the most widespread form of violence …

Complex individual pathways or standard tracks? A data‐based discussion on the trajectories of change in psychotherapy

G Schiepek, O Gelo, K Viol, L Kratzer… - Counselling and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Current approaches of routine outcome monitoring (session‐by‐session
measures) expect that trajectories of change should move on a standard track. Patients …

[PDF][PDF] Monitoring change dynamics-a nonlinear approach to psychotherapy feedback.

G Schiepek, W Aichhorn, H Schöller - Chaos & Complexity Letters, 2017 - ccsys.de
Innovations in information technology opened the way to monitor the nonlinear features of
human change dynamics in real time. Especially the internet-based Synergetic Navigation …

A mixed methods framework for psychoanalytic group therapy: from qualitative records to a quantitative approach using t-pattern, lag sequential, and polar coordinate …

E Arias-Pujol, MT Anguera - Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Conducted within a mixed methods framework, this study focuses on the conversation-
facilitation role of a lead therapist during group psychotherapy with adolescents …

A phase transition of the unconscious: automated text analysis of dreams in psychoanalytic psychotherapy

A Gennaro, S Kipp, K Viol, G de Felice… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Aim Psychotherapy could be interpreted as a self-organizing process which reveals
discontinuous pattern transitions (so-called phase transitions). Whereas this was shown in …

[HTML][HTML] Stability and flexibility in psychotherapy process predict outcome

G de Felice, A Giuliani, D Pincus, A Scozzari, V Berardi… - Acta Psychologica, 2022 - Elsevier
Ten good outcome and ten poor outcome psychotherapy cases were compared to
investigate whether or not the temporal stability and flexibility of their process variables can …