Already a problematic age in itself, adolescence today goes through a period particularly full of challenges. Young people, who often lack the reassuring models that once accompanied their growth, have to deal with a world where the virtual replaces the real, undermining their security and taking away their possibilities [...]

The contributions of the famous biologist Humberto Maturana to various disciplines, including philosophy, linguistics, cognitive science, sociology, psychology, and others, have allowed the development of science in general. Mental health and psychotherapy have not been immune to this influence. This article tries to analyze Humberto Maturana's epistemology […]

The contributions of the famous biologist Humberto Maturana to different disciplines, from philosophy, linguistics, cognitive sciences, sociology, psychology, among others, have allowed the development of science in general. Mental health and psychotherapy have not been immune to this influence. This article seeks to analyze Humberto Maturana's epistemology referring to objectivity in parentheses, autopoiesis, cognition and […]

The contributions of the famous biologist Humberto Maturana to distinct disciplines, from philosophy, linguistics, cognitive sciences, sociology, psychology, among others, have allowed the development of science in general. Mental health and psychotherapy are not affected by this influence. This article seeks to analyze Humberto's epistemology […]

Description: Fear, a primary emotion, directly connected to survival, is a natural endowment that we must perceive as a friend. Without fear there is only unconsciousness, and those who know how to train it can only benefit from it. But what happens when fear, from a healthy reaction, becomes pathological, in an escalation that sees it transform into anxiety, panic, phobia, making a […]

The psychiatrist must have herramientas de intervención psychoterapeutica. The activity of psychiatrists in institutions, the volume of patients they handle, the estimated time of attention and the difficulties in dealing with regular citations mean that traditional psychotherapeutic interventions cannot be applied. Brief Strategic Therapy can be constituted as a […]

Giorgio Nardone's evolved model of brief strategic therapy is a psychotherapy that is currently considered to demonstrate high efficacy and efficiency for a variety of emotional disorders. This article presents the history and epistemological foundations of brief strategic therapy, based on systems thinking, cybernetics, general systems theory, and constructivism. The evolution and historical development are […]

Giorgio Nardone's evolved model of brief strategic therapy is a psychotherapy that is currently considered to demonstrate high efficacy and efficiency for a variety of emotional disorders. This article presents the history and epistemological foundations of brief strategic therapy, based on systems thinking, cybernetics, general systems theory, and constructivism. The evolution and historical development are […]

During the American Civil War military doctors, observing the combat stress of soldiers, described for the first time the phenomenon of acute hyperventilation and its symptoms. Subsequently, starting from the 50s, air hunger, dyspnea and the sense of suffocation were the subject of research which confirmed […]

Background and aim: International guidelines indicate pharmacological therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) as gold standard treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). However, up to 40% patients do not fully respond to CBT, thus manifesting persistent symptomatology. Empirical research reported brief strategic therapy (BST) as a potential treatment for OCD. The aim of the present study is […]

What would life be like without love? Fortunately, we are not able to give an answer because love sooner or later appears and is usually embodied in the life of a couple. All love affairs are by their nature unstable, capricious, elusive and it can happen that this magnificent spell of loving and sharing is transformed, [...]

"Create from a" is the seventh of the Thirty-six stratagems, the most famous and ancient treaty of military strategy in China, which involves inventing something non-existent to bring about a concrete change in the situation, a perception of reality from non-ordinary perspectives, which it makes us discover alternatives not contemplated by reasoning alone. Giorgio Nardone takes his cue [...]