Maintenance of psychophysiological changes in feeling therapy

Avaliação do processo de aconselhamento vocacional: revisão da literatura

As questões acerca do processo de intervenção têm sido cada vez mais alvo de atenção e estudo na Psicologia. Este artigo apresenta uma revisão da literatura acerca da panorâmica atual do processo de aconselhamento vocacional. Deste modo, são abordados, uma descrição do processo de aconselhamento vocacional e das variáveis comuns ao aconselhamento psicológico pessoal e vocacional, seguindo-se uma breve caracterização das investigações sobre o processo da intervenção psicológica vocacional. Por último, apresenta-se um conjunto de sugestões para futuras pesquisas.

Preliminary study of psychological changes in feeling therapy

10 early, 10 middle, and 10 late participants in an intense, community-oriented psychotherapy (feeling therapy) were measured for differences on two standardized psychological tests (Personal Orientation Inventory and Eysenck Personality Inventory) and on responses to individual and group post-session report questionnaires. Two earlier studies had found measurable physiological changes associated with this form of therapeutic intervention and it was hypothesized that associated psychological changes might be observed. Results partially bore out this prediction; the three groups evidenced some significant differences on the Personal Orientation Inventory and Post-session Report Forms. Eysenck Personality Inventory data did not distinguish between the groups.

A reapplication of the process scoring system for dreams

The first application of the new Process Scoring System for dreams was made in an intensive longitudinal case study of 1 S over a 5 1/2 year period. In this second application, the dreams of a sample of 5 experienced Feeling Therapy patients were compared to those of 5 control Ss. As in the first study, considerable support was found for both the transformation hypothesis, which holds that it is possible to shift from a symbolic mode of dream behavior to a directly expressive one, and the parallelism hypothesis, which holds that the expression of affect in dreams parallels the expression of affect in waking and vice versa.