2022
Beauty and Uncertainty as Transformative Factors : A Free Energy Principle Account of Aesthetic Diagnosis and Intervention in Gestalt Psychotherapy
SARASSO, Pietro, Gianni FRANCESETTI, Jan ROUBAL, Michela GECELE, Irene RONGA et. al.Základní údaje
Originální název
Beauty and Uncertainty as Transformative Factors : A Free Energy Principle Account of Aesthetic Diagnosis and Intervention in Gestalt Psychotherapy
Autoři
SARASSO, Pietro (380 Itálie), Gianni FRANCESETTI (380 Itálie), Jan ROUBAL (203 Česká republika, domácí), Michela GECELE (380 Itálie), Irene RONGA (380 Itálie), Marco NEPPI-MODONA (380 Itálie) a Katiuscia SACCO (380 Itálie)
Vydání
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Lausanne, Frontiers Media, 2022, 1662-5161
Další údaje
Jazyk
angličtina
Typ výsledku
Článek v odborném periodiku
Obor
50100 5.1 Psychology and cognitive sciences
Stát vydavatele
Švýcarsko
Utajení
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Odkazy
Impakt faktor
Impact factor: 2.900
Kód RIV
RIV/00216224:14230/22:00126287
Organizační jednotka
Fakulta sociálních studií
UT WoS
000885755000001
Klíčová slova anglicky
neuroaesthetics; gestalt therapy; predictive coding; field theory; psychopathology
Štítky
Příznaky
Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 6. 2. 2023 13:22, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová
Anotace
V originále
Drawing from field theory, Gestalt therapy conceives psychological suffering and psychotherapy as two intentional field phenomena, where unprocessed and chaotic experiences seek the opportunity to emerge and be assimilated through the contact between the patient and the therapist (i.e., the intentionality of contacting). This therapeutic approach is based on the therapist’s aesthetic experience of his/her embodied presence in the flow of the healing process because (1) the perception of beauty can provide the therapist with feedback on the assimilation of unprocessed experiences; (2) the therapist’s attentional focus on intrinsic aesthetic diagnostic criteria can facilitate the modification of rigid psychopathological fields by supporting the openness to novel experiences. The aim of the present manuscript is to review recent evidence from psychophysiology, neuroaesthetic research, and neurocomputational models of cognition, such as the free energy principle (FEP), which support the notion of the therapeutic potential of aesthetic sensibility in Gestalt psychotherapy. Drawing from neuroimaging data, psychophysiology and recent neurocognitive accounts of aesthetic perception, we propose a novel interpretation of the sense of beauty as a self-generated reward motivating us to assimilate an ever-greater spectrum of sensory and affective states in our predictive representation of ourselves and the world and supporting the intentionality of contact. Expecting beauty, in the psychotherapeutic encounter, can help therapists tolerate uncertainty avoiding impulsive behaviours and to stay tuned to the process of change.