The applications of notion of countertransference as analyst’s critical instrument were extended to social research. In this paper, the author discusses the views of George Devereux, one of the first authors who indicate the existence, effects and uses of countertransference in social sciences...

The study is approaching the development of a concept for a Romanian Curriculum for the Personal Development of trainees in cognitive-behavioral therapy. The structuring is based upon a design developed in the German speaking countries, emerged from differentiated approaches, that all kept up...

Statistic procedures are used for creating and verifying work hypotheses useful for decision grounding. Each aspect of human activity is measured and interpreted in statistic terms, which means it is measured in a numeric manner and interpreted as a means. Absorbed by the power of numbers, we...

This essay presents new perspectives and approach of the therapeutic interventions. Animal assisted therapy developed an original dimension of the techniques used in other types of therapy. The animal therapist involved facilitates the relationship that evolves between the client and the...

The article gives an account on the progress made in the study and modeling of the adaptive and learning processes and opens new outlooks for future research. The psychological approach is a synthetic and critical one, the emphasis being laid on the specific mechanisms of each level of...

Ashby’s Design for a Brain [Ashby 1952] comprises a formal description of the necessary and sufficient conditions for a system to act ‘like a brain,’ that is, to learn in order to remain viable in a changing environment, and to ‘get what it wants’. Remarkably, Ashby gives a complete,...

In this article we address some fundamental questions concerning information: Can the existing laws of physics adequately deal with the most striking property of information, namely to cause specific changes in the structure and energy flows of a complex system, without the information in itself...

In the present paper the main principles of the ericksonian hypnotherapy are disscused: the comunication in client s system of references, symptoms conceptualization and utilization, indirect sugestions and therapeutic mataphores. The authors considers that some hypnotic phenomena specific to...

Reichenbach (1938) distinguishes between ―JUSTIFICATION LOGIC‖ and ―DISCOVERY LOGIC.‖ Weick (1989) sees theorizing as ―disciplined imagination.‖ Weick appropriately captures the essence of theory discovery/creation as ―imagination.‖ Indeed, after centuries of scientific...

In the present paper a psychotherapy model for cancer patients is described. The model, based on clinical hypnosis and cognitive behavior therapy, includes the following strategies: basic relaxation abilities, mintal trening for imunology mechanism improvement, direct and indirect sugestions,...