Umwelt-A New Strategy for Mentalizing Patient Experience.

IF 2.3 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL
Jonathan Hunter
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Abstract

There is an inevitable limit to understanding the internal experience of patients with whom therapists work in psychotherapy. The farther their experience is from that of their therapist, the more challenging this endeavor can be. Accepting that therapists cannot exactly know a patient's internal experience invites them to explore novel ways of appreciating another person's way of perceiving relationships, deriving meaning from them, and using their experience to motivate behavior. The concept of umwelt can be used as a metaphor to help therapists imagine the internal world of their patients, as shaped by patients' developmental, interpersonal, and traumatic experiences. Umwelt refers to the unique worldview created by a species' idiosyncratic perceptual organs and survival strategies. This first Psychotherapy Musings describes the concept of umwelt, applies it to the case of a patient with difficult-to-treat mental health problems, and explicates the benefit of this novel perspective.

Umwelt--患者体验心理化的新战略。
在心理治疗过程中,治疗师对患者内心体验的理解不可避免地会受到限制。病人的经验与治疗师的经验相差越远,这项工作就越具有挑战性。治疗师不可能完全了解患者的内心体验,这就需要他们探索新的方法,以欣赏他人感知人际关系的方式,从中获得意义,并利用他们的体验来激励自己的行为。Umwelt(内心世界)这一概念可以作为一种隐喻,帮助治疗师想象病人的内心世界,它是由病人的成长、人际交往和创伤经历所塑造的。Umwelt指的是一个物种特异的感知器官和生存策略所创造的独特世界观。本期《心理治疗随想录》介绍了 "Umwelt "的概念,并将其应用于一位有难以治疗的心理健康问题的患者身上,阐述了这一新视角的益处。
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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL-
CiteScore
2.90
自引率
4.00%
发文量
39
期刊介绍: Founded in 1939, the American Journal of Psychotherapy (AJP) has long been a leader in the publication of eclectic articles for all psychotherapists. Transtheoretic in reach (offering information for psychotherapists across all theoretical foundations), the goal of AJP is to present an overview of the psychotherapies, subsuming a host of schools, techniques, and psychological modalities within the larger domain of clinical practice under broad themes including dynamic, behavioral, spiritual, and experiential.
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