A Psychotherapy Perspective: what about on the Process and on the Outcome in a Functional Approach for Clinical and Personality Disorders?

Raffaella Perrella

Abstract


The psychotherapy perspective deals with the points of connections between body and mind in a modern functional approach. Through the study of Metacognition, which is intended to be a connection that verifies the integration of different emotional and cognitive, and sensory and motor systems, we evaluated if is possible identify a overlapping between bodily change and metacognitive functions change.

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Research in Psychotherapy; Functional Psychotherapy; Metacognition; Process; Outcome

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.6092/2282-1619/2017.5.1662

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