Beauty and Uncertainty as Transformative Factors : A Free Energy Principle Account of Aesthetic Diagnosis and Intervention in Gestalt Psychotherapy

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2022.906188/full" target="_blank" >https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2022.906188/full</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.906188" target="_blank" >10.3389/fnhum.2022.906188</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Beauty and Uncertainty as Transformative Factors : A Free Energy Principle Account of Aesthetic Diagnosis and Intervention in Gestalt Psychotherapy

Original language description

Drawing from field theory, Gestalt therapy conceives psychological suffering and psychotherapy as two intentional field phenomena, where unprocessed and chaotic experiences seek the opportunity to emerge and be assimilated through the contact between the patient and the therapist (i.e., the intentionality of contacting). This therapeutic approach is based on the therapist’s aesthetic experience of his/her embodied presence in the flow of the healing process because (1) the perception of beauty can provide the therapist with feedback on the assimilation of unprocessed experiences; (2) the therapist’s attentional focus on intrinsic aesthetic diagnostic criteria can facilitate the modification of rigid psychopathological fields by supporting the openness to novel experiences. The aim of the present manuscript is to review recent evidence from psychophysiology, neuroaesthetic research, and neurocomputational models of cognition, such as the free energy principle (FEP), which support the notion of the therapeutic potential of aesthetic sensibility in Gestalt psychotherapy. Drawing from neuroimaging data, psychophysiology and recent neurocognitive accounts of aesthetic perception, we propose a novel interpretation of the sense of beauty as a self-generated reward motivating us to assimilate an ever-greater spectrum of sensory and affective states in our predictive representation of ourselves and the world and supporting the intentionality of contact. Expecting beauty, in the psychotherapeutic encounter, can help therapists tolerate uncertainty avoiding impulsive behaviours and to stay tuned to the process of change.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50100 - Psychology and cognitive sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

ISSN

1662-5161

e-ISSN

1662-5161

Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

July

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

26

Pages from-to

1-26

UT code for WoS article

000885755000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85135171618