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Atenção a Si e Psicoterapia Corporal:efeitos da auto estimulação somatossensorial sobre a atenção e suas implicações para o corpo, as emoções e a cognição.

Tese de doutorado - UFRJ/2008 Link para tese: http://teses.ufrj.br/ip_d/joseignaciotavaresxavier.pdf ABSTRACT XAVIER, José Ignacio Tavares. Attention to self and body oriented psychotherapy: effects of somato-sensory self stimulation on attention and the implications for body, emotions, and cognition. Rio de Janeiro, 2004. Thesis (Doctorate in Psychology) – Institute of Psychology, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 2004. Body oriented psychotherapy originates in the clinical work of Wilhelm Reich, in turn founded in psychoanalysis. Reich defended a natural-scientific perspective in the development of Freud’s libido theory, postulating that the clinical focus should be on character structure more than on symptoms, and developing specific methods for this: character analysis, and later character-analytic vegetotherapy. After an analysis of the political smokescreen that covered the real motives for Reich’s expulsion from the International Psychoanalytic Association, this thesis compares the positions of Reich and Freud in the development of the theory of clinical psychoanalysis in the 1920s and 1930s, emphasising their approach to the problem of attention and its implications for their respective positions with regard to the relationship between the conscious and the unconscious. There follows a description of the evolution of the clinical use of body-oriented psychotherapy as initiated by Reich , the contributions of Navarro, and the new paradigm of neurodynamic psychotherapy (NP) whose clinical and theoretical principles, being developed by Xavier and Haldane, are presented by the author. The present state of the neurobiology of consciousness suggests an important role for bodily experience in the production of the sense of Self, its implications in the experience of emotions and feelings, revealing how these affect higher cognitive activities, attention, and the global field of operation of consciousness. Higher cognitive processes, in turn, affect emotional and somatic activity, forming a process of circular, although asymmetrical, causality. The study of neural plasticity linked to the formation of autobiographical memories and their repercussions on working memory suggests that the neurodynamics of attention, emotions, the sense of Self and higher cognitive processes allow the critical re-evaluation of the Reichian theory of character formation in neurodynamic terms, as the author proposes that the unconsciousness of subjectivity is formed by a ‘psychic membrane’ provided by character traits and constituting a third level of selectivity in the neural network. Qualitative analysis of several clinical episodes from the perspective of neurodynamic psychotherapy (NP) is used to demonstrate the shaping effect engendered by character structure in relation to various aspects of the neurobiology of consciousness, such as the function of attention, the formation of unconscious memories via neural plasticity and the drawing together of the organisation of subjectivity in terms of the relational neurodynamics between the emotional and cognitive aspects of the neural network. The author demonstrates qualitatively the validity of including bodily experiences in the clinical setting, as a framework of ascending causal agencies which offer a new way of clinical access to subjectivity. It is concluded that the ‘proto’ results of this initial study may contribute to goal-setting in future research, both qualitative and quantitative, that may help bridge the gap of the hard problem.

Link para tese: http://teses.ufrj.br/ip_d/joseignaciotavaresxavier.pdf

 

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