Conferences

Psychotherapy has not escaped the widely used scheme in the psychology of dividing human activity into behaviors, thoughts, and emotions. Therefore, therapies place more emphasis on some of these components. However, this division distances us from a holistic vision, in...

In the framework of considering the person as unique and unrepeatable, the aim is to study and delve into the personal style of approaching experience from different realities. From the most primary, which bring us closer to the beginning of...

In a book from the 1980s, Psychotherapy: Grammar and Syntax, published in Spanish by Paidós, I discussed the possibility and the need to consider the knowledge and practice of psychotherapy from a holistic perspective. In this Congress, it is beautiful...

For many years, most professionals in psychotherapy and clinical psychology have been engaged in an integrating movement of the different schools, moods, models, and techniques. It is about giving consistency to our theoretical body and expanding our arsenal of intervention...

In Humanist therapies it seems that what is important is physical contact, hugs, feeling the materials with which we work, the physical closeness between therapist and patient. The moment we are living in confinement, it is a challenge to be...

Dreams are the art we make every night when we plunge back into the nurturing ocean of the unconscious. Dreaming is physiological and contains deep wisdom that encourages self-regulation and learning. They serve not only to cement the memory of...

Psychotherapy is a co-created enquiry seeking to bridge dissociative gaps. This enquiry is inevitably both bodied and intersubjective. The art and science of using the therapist’s self as a guiding instrument, like a kind of ‘compass’, may help us orient...

This presentation is about our human potential – our spiritual, psychological, and social growth, as well as transformation of consciousness, of the inner feeling of our own existence, and the release of conditioning imposed upon us by society. The unfolding...

Currently the body psychotherapist needs to know how to bridge with the latest research in neuroscience. The importance of the psychodynamic understanding of the human being as well as of the choreography between the three brains; reptilian, limbic and neocortex...

An approach from body psychotherapy in Biosynthesis and andean cosmology. The purpose of this work is to be able to look at the importance of the metaphor of the path of the heart from the approaches of Biosynthesis and Andean...

Change-processes are an essential element in psychotherapy – we reach for the possibility for changing patterns founded in our past and with that gaining access to more of our life-energy. One aspect is to open up new possibilities – another...

In this presentation I am going to present the skin as a work space in psychotherapy, as a storyteller, of the body-mind of which it is the habitus. Therefore, full of cryptic graphics, interwoven between tissue tensions, spasms of fear...

El Movimiento de la Psicología Humanista nació con una clara voluntad integradora, tanto en lo que se refiere a los modelos teóricos que compartían una visión holista del ser humano,  en relación con los diferentes subsistemas de la personalidad.  Así,...

The future is more than ever uncertain, we live in times of uncertainty, the consequences of COVID-19 and the consequences of extremist policies that currently prevail in several countries. Uncertainty and the unknown have always “messed with our neurons”. The...

Humanistic Integrative Psychotherapy is the first original model of psychotherapy created in our country, within the framework of the Humanistic Psychology Movement. A model of psychotherapy cannot be limited to being a mere collection of intervention procedures or therapeutic techniques....

Boundaries are one of the primary elements that enable life as we know it.  Boundaries function first to build an inner world separate from the outer, and then to allow exchange between them, as in the cell membrane.  They allow...

Therapy based on Emotional Intelligence (TIE; Lizeretti, 2012) is a humanistic therapy that arises from the motivation to contribute, demonstrate, and spread the efficacy of the interventions that are developed under this perspective. Its main objective is the development of...

The objective of this communication is to present the latest scientific advances on the effectiveness of meditation and other contemplative practices to increase well-being in different areas. The EBC Program and the model proposed by Positive Contemplative Psychology will be...