International CIANS Conference 2007, Oct.
10–13, Brno, Rep. Ceca
PSYCHO-ACOUSTICAL
TRANSITIONAL (PAT) SESSIONS AND WELL BEING. CLINICAL APPLICATIONS AND THEORETICAL
HYPOTHESIS CONCERNING THE ROLE OF AUTOPOIETIC PHENOMENA UNFOLDING DURING PAT
SESSIONS.
Authors:
Gubert
Finsterle, EAP Psychotherapist
Affiliation: Societą Italiana di Psicologia Positiva, AVS
Research – Research and experimental development in the field of
Psychology
Roberta Cacioppo, Clinical Psychologist
Affiliation: Universitą Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Dynamic Psychology University Chair
Background.
The PAT
session is a completely defined setting from a mathematical-physical point of
view and doesn’t need an interaction with an other subject to produce an
evident modulation of the consciousness’ state. The utilization of
an “informal” sound-stimulus
bypasses the problems related to the subject’s mother tongue and his
musical culture (Finsterle, 2006). Therefore PAT Session can be defined as a
“primary”, scientific
intervention’s methodology on the mind-body system, of possible
universal application (Finsterle, 2007).
Methods.
The effects
of increase of intra psychical communication, plasticity and efficiency of the
brain-system (Aiello, Finsterle, 2005), have been utilized in
conjunction with a psychoanalytical oriented dialogue to improve the
quality of life, because of the increased subject’s conscious acceptance
of the spontaneously emerging new ways to give sense to internal unconscious
fantasies and external events.
Results.
A relation
seems to appear - on one hand - between the kind (coenaesthesic, sonorous,
visual) and the unfolding’s frequency of autopoietic phenomena and - on
the other hand - the subject’s
level of anxiety and his psychical structure.
Conclusions.
Observing
the relation between conscious and unconscious signification process, it seems plausible to hypothesize that the
subjective perceived well being and the resilience capability (effective
interaction with the “world’s” problems) are related with the
degree of consonance between conscious and unconscious way to give sense to the
events, consonance that tends to reduce the level of anxiety, positively
influencing also the domain of external stimuli perception.
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struttura casuale in un campo olofonico: fenomenologia dell’esperienza,
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4-5), Milano.
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G. (2006), “The “mirror effect” in sound’s fusion time:
the integration of two specular sound fields in one mental-virtual holophonic
sound field. Phenomenology and applications”, in Abstracts of the
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and interventions from an
interdisciplinary point of view (pp. 28-29), Milano.
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