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THE PLAN FORMULATION METHOD FOR COUPLES: UMBERTO AND DANIELA, A CLINICAL EXAMPLIFICATION OF A PFMC BASED PSYCHOTHERAPY INTERVENTION.
No full textControl Mastery Theory (CMT) is a cognitive-dynamic relational theory of psychological functioning and psychopathology (Weiss, 1993; Gazzillo, 2016). A central tenet of CMT is that human beings are guided by an unconscious plan to achieve adaptive goals, disprove their pathogenic beliefs by testing them with the therapist and master their traumas. Also couples try to pursue healthy goals, and the partners test each other to disconfirm the pathogenic beliefs that obstruct them (Zeitlin, 1991). If partners don’t pass their reciprocal tests, couples may develop relational vicious cycles impairing their adaptation and well-being.
The Plan Formulation Method for Couples (Rodomonti M., Crisafulli V., Mazzoni S., Curtis, J., Gazzillo F., 2019), is a case-specific assessment procedure aimed at reliably formulating the couples’ plan.
This contribution presents the case of Umberto and Daniela, a couple treated according to their PFMC. They looked for a couple psychotherapy because they often argued and were very frustrated and worried about the healthy development of their two years old child. Their therapy lasted 16 sessions. During the therapy, Umberto and Daniela, worked to understand the feelings and pathogenic beliefs that gave rise to their principal vicious relational circles. Daniela proposed mainly transference tests by non-compliance of her-self-hate and burdening guilty, expressed by her complaining, and Umberto’s reaction via angry outbursts or absolute compliance with all of Daniela’s requests, which was expression of his omnipotence and burdening guilty tested with transference tests both by compliance and by non-compliance. The therapist helped the couple also remain aware of the virtuous relational circles (resources) that enable them to feel safe in their relationship.
At the end of the psychotherapy, Daniela and Umberto were arguing less, enjoyed more their ability to take care of their daughter and had new projects for the future of their family
Couple therapy with conflictual and distressed couples. therapeutic alliance, ruptures and repairs
No full textWhen the intimate relationship is stressed and conflictual, great loneliness, angst and suffering emerge and represent a risk factor to partners mental and physical health (Whisman, 2007; Snyder, 2012), as well as parenting skills (Krishnakumar, 2000). There are consistent claims of the effectiveness of Couples Therapy (CT) in reduction of relationship distress and in mental and physical wellbeing of adults and children (Carr, 2009; Fivaz Depeursinge, 2015). However, in CT there is a high risk of drop-out (Allgood, 1991; Bischoff, 1993). Therapeutic Alliance (TA) in CT is one of the most important factors of maintaining the therapeutic process (Escudero, 2015). This study explores the TA in therapies with couples engaged in high levels of distress and conflict. The aim is to investigate: 1) TA in three groups of termination status of CT (Conclusion with Agreement, Without Agreement, No-Show. Bartle-Haring et al., 2012): differences between groups and intragroups (men vs women); 2) differences in therapists between groups; 3) interactive processes of Rupture and Repair of TA. The TA has been measured with SOFTA-o (Italian Validation, Mazzoni, Ciocca, Porcedda, 2015), Ruptures and Reparations have been identified with CIS-r (Colli, Lingiardi et al. 2014) and a qualitative scale specifically developed for the CT. Preliminary results are based on 239 sessions (110 agreement, 63 disagreement, 66 no-show) and show significant differences between groups in intrafamily alliance (F: 15.0, α.000), engagement and security of men (F: 5.6; α:.004; F: 4.8; α:.009), emotional connection of men (F: 6.9; α:.001) and women (F: 7.9; α:.000). There aren’t intra-groups differences. The groups of Without Agreement and No-Show have a statistically significant difference only for the Therapist's contributions in the dimensions of emotional connection (F: 19.9; α:.000). Learn more about TA is important because it can identify crucial clues for clinicians to prevent premature termination on CT
L’Alleanza terapeutica nelle diverse tipologie di conclusione in terapia di coppia: un confronto tra gruppi, terapeuti e partner
No full textThe adaptive function of fantasy: a proposal from the perspective of control-mastery theory
No full textThe aim of this paper is to show the evolution of the psychoanalytic conception of fantasy/phantasy from a
psychic activity aimed at denying reality and/or fulfilling frustrated wishes to a tool useful for adapting to
reality. We will then review some recent findings of empirical research on imagination and mental simulation
showing how these activities, and mind wandering in general, is expression of the constant effort of the psyche
to set and pursue adaptive goals, to elaborate and test plans, and to master and solve problems and traumas.
Finally, we will show how these empirical data are consistent with the conception of fantasy proposed by the
control-mastery theory (CMT; Gazzillo, 2016; Silberschatz, 2005; Weiss, 1993), an integrated cognitivedynamic
relational theory of psychic functioning, psychopathology, and psychotherapy developed and tested
in the last 40 years by the San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group
Attachment disorganization and severe psychopathology: a possible dialogue between attachment theory and control-mastery theory
No full textA good enough theory of psychological functioning and development, and of how psychotherapy works, should take into account recent scientific developments about emotional, motivational, and cognitive functioning. They show how human beings are "wired" to adapt to reality and share a set of evolutionarybased emotions, motivations and skills that are shaped by the cognitive-affective structures (schemas) developed on the basis of the emotionally relevant experiences, in particular of the first years of life. Attachment theory (Bowlby, 1969, 1973, 1980) represents the first real attempt in this direction, although the clinical implications of this theory are still fragmented and not specific enough. We think that control mastery theory (CMT; Weiss, 1993) could be useful for integrating attachment, psychodynamic, and cognitive-evolutionary thinking. Such an integrated model is based on the centrality of adaptation, sense of safety, and real experiences; on the central role of inner representations/beliefs/schemas in linking adverse developmental experiences and attentional strategies, perception organization, emotional reactions, behavior, and psychopathology; and on the necessity to modify this relational knowledge in order to help patients get better. To explore the possible integration between attachment theory and CMT, we will focus on a specific topic, the disorganization of attachment and its psychopathological consequences, and we will illustrate the implications of this integration with a brief clinical example. We chose to focus on attachment disorganization because it is the attachment category more consistently related to psychopathology
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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