Psychotherapy: A World of Meanings.

摘要: Despite a wealth of findings that psychotherapy is an effective psychological intervention the principal mechanisms change are still in debate. It has been suggested all forms provide context which enables clients to transform meaning their experiences and symptoms such way as help feel better, function more adaptively. However, not only healthcare associated with ‘meaning’: reason why placebo have effects also proposed be ‘meaning response’. Thus, it argued treatments central impact on beneficial (and by extension, negative) health-related responses. In light strong empirical support contextual understanding its effects, aim this conceptual analysis examine role transformation – general within three different, commonly-used modalities.