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Sparks of psychotherapeutic change: How therapists understand moments of meetings’ contribution to change in psychotherapy

Psychotherapy Research

Año: 2021

Autor UDP: Claudio Martínez Guzmán

Autor UDP: Alemka Tomicic Suñer

Autor UDP: Javiera Duarte

Moments of Meeting (MoM) in psychotherapy are understood as shared moments between patients and therapists that allow a mutual implicit understanding about their relationship and create a new state of intersubjectivity that reconfigures the patient’s procedural knowledge of “being with others.” Despite ample theoretical and clinical descriptions of this phenomenon, little is known, from an empirical standpoint, about these kinds of moments in therapy.Objective : This study describes therapists’ experience of moments of meeting with their patients in psychotherapy, and how these moments relate to the patient’s change process.
Method : 13 in-depth interviews conducted with therapists from different theoretical backgrounds were analyzed using Grounded Theory.
Results: Four categories were established: (1) Characteristics of moments of meeting, (2) Triggers of moments of meeting
(3) Enabling conditions, and (4) Main effects of moments of meeting. A conceptual model was developed around an axial phenomenon that provides understanding on how moments of meeting contribute to the change process in psychotherapy, through the construction of shared relational knowing.
Discussion : The value of moments of meeting for the therapeutic process is discussed and reflected upon, as well as their effect on changes regarding implicit relational knowing.

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