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Unspoken bodily memory, catastrophe survival, and subconscious trauma integration.
Latent dream architecture, nocturnal terror, and symbolic psychotic imagery.
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Psychotherapeutic interventions are becoming increasingly important in India. Indian literature is full of information related to existence of knowledge about psychotherapy. The current study reviews the literature related to psychotherapy in Indian cultural context. The training...
The present case study was an attempt to apply PIPATIC [(ProgramaIndividualizadoPsicoterapéutico para la Adicción a las Tecnologías de la información y la comunicación) having English translation as Individualized Psychotherapeutic Program for Addiction to the Technologies o...
A traumatic event is one that threatens injury or the physical integrity of self or others and causes horror, terror or helplessness at the time it occurs. A variety of personal and environmental factors may lead to enduring post traumatic difficulties. The aim of the present stu...
Based on findings from prior research studies, trauma histories have been found to be ubiquitous in psychopathic women. In this study, the Rorschach Trauma Content Index (TCI) was used to better understand the trauma histories of incarcerated women (N = 180). The TCI was signific...
Over the past 2 decades, clinicians have expressed extensive research interest in the study of 2 prominent afflictions (Suicide/Suicide Potential; PTSD) affecting veterans in the USA (Bisson et al., 2019; Bohnert et al., 2017; Bush 2012, 2014; Jackson, 2017; Kessler et al., 2017;...
Somatic Inkblot Series (SIS) has emerged as a powerful procedure in projective psychology. It is based on the principles of projection and uses inkblots to interpret the responses given by an individual. The interpretation is further used to map the personality and psychodynamics...
Cognitive Drill Therapy (CDT) relies on verbal exposure to feared disastrous consequences. The cognition of feared outcomes are generated and then time perspective of feared cognition is changed into the present or past which is required to be repeated many times until there is s...
Psychological assessment and projective/performance-based assessment in particular, has seen a decline in recent years, both in training and clinical use. This trend is alarming and raises concerns about the loss of important clinical tools and its effect on the field of psycholo...
The case study involves a technician (welder)who works on the North Slope in Alaska on the oil field. He was in the tank to repair it. He lit the torch, and there was an explosion? He has been in treatment a few weeks, for the major trauma he had just over a year ago. The Somatic...
Children have variety of problems and are highly vulnerable to physical and verbal abuse, sexual victimization, critical traumatic experiences, and accidents. They are exposed to unhealthy habits like smoking, drug usages, theft, robbery and other illegal activities. They don...
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is one of the most practised forms of psychotherapies for the treatment of patients suffering from social phobia. The present case study is an attempt to provide therapeutic intervention programme to a 21 years old, unmarried female client suffer...
The Somatic Inkblot Series-II (Cassell and Dubey, 2003) was administered to an 18 years old girl, studying in 12th class with complaints of fits (fainting attacks), headache and nausea. She was diagnosed as a case of “Dissociative Convulsion Disorder” as per ICD-10. The SIS r...
The case study involves a near fatal Alaskan Brown bear attack experienced in 2013 by a Vietnam veteran, who had been severely stressed on two separate combat occasions during Vietnam War. These occurred when the helicopter in which he was riding shot down. While he survived two ...
Brief Dynamic Therapy attempts to bring about changes in client’s psychopathology by conceptualising it within the frameworks of psychoanalytic thought and actively working out a focal conflict area. The present paper aims to show the understanding of psychopathology, process o...
The Somatic Inkblot Series Card form was administered to two cases for diagnostic formulation and therapeutic intervention. The test was used first time by the clinician though he has heard about the test in Italy. The test was found valid in assessing personality and diagnostic ...
Projections of varied kinds are part and parcel of daily emotional exchanges with the environment. They give vent to the unconscious realm of the mind that tends to threat the ego-system. Resistance and consequently repression are resultant effects. Projective techniques come at ...
Somatic Inkblot Series-II Video version was administered to a 35 years old female executive. She got married 6 years before with her childhood friend with whom she had love relations for almost 15 years. She feels neglected by her husband who is short tempered, demanding and host...
Driver-violence has been essentially on the rise, taking toll of many innocent lives. The present study probes into the personality profiles of rash driving drivers, from the perspectives of mental health, in a comparative parlance with non-offending counterparts. The sample con...
Soldiers with poly-trauma are reported to suffer serious psychological disorders. However, little is known about psychological distress associated with poly-trauma in Indian security force personnel. The present study aimed to assess psychological distress associated with poly-tr...
Coping strategies and defense mechanisms are an individual’s important personality traits which strongly influence the ease with which people are able to form and maintain healthy relationships. Certain psychological traits including coping strategies and defenses are frequentl...
The Somatic Inkblot Series (Cassell and Dubey, 2003) was administered to a 16 years old girl, studying 10th grade with complaints of fits of unconsciousness, severe headache, low mood and nausea. She was diagnosed as a case of “Dissociative Convulsion Disorder” as per ICD-10....
The Somatic Inkblots Video was administered to a person who has been abusing Alcohol and other drugs for the last 25 years. The SIS images helped in planning therapeutic intervention leading to positive attitude towards life. He shared emotional pain which he has felt during past...
A 21st century scientist, conceptualizing the neuropsychological mechanisms underlying projection, has available more sophisticated scientific studies than in the past. This information is available to those building on SIS body-mind-spirit concepts envisioned in the preceding ce...
The Somatic Inkblot Series- II was administered to OCD patient as an aide in cognitive behavioral psychotherapy. Content analysis of SIS projected symbolic imagery was able to bring to the surface long-forgotten, unresolved stressors. The SIS could stimulate in memory long forgot...
Severe psychological stress in childhood can set the stage for a variety of psychiatric disorders. In this journal a clinical case study entitled “The Mutilated Breast Syndrome” illustrates this phenomenon. It describes the use of the SIS-II in the psychotherapeutic treatment...
The study compared the three drug abuser groups namely, heroin (N=98), brown sugar (n=79) and tidigesic (N=70) and matched normals (N=48) in terms of level of depression, social anxiety and social motive components as well as the differences in pathological contents and indices o...
Most clinicians consider the use of inkblot testing such as the Rorschach, primarily for its diagnostic applications. In recent years, the widespread use of numerical scoring systems such as those developed by Klopfer and Exner, have tended to bypass the therapeutic value of Herm...
The following article introduces an extension of the SIS Method and outlines the development and clinical applications of the video, “Living Images”. This television technique, an animated, colorful presentation of 40 images, prepared by women artist, effectively aides in the...
The Hand Test (HT) was administered to young (n=50, M age=19.94 yrs., SD=4.23) and older Atlantic Canadian adults (n=50 M age=73.16 yrs., SD=7.74), with 25 men and 25 women in each group, for the purposes of: 1) investigating age differences in personality; and, 2) to determine i...
Most readers of this journal are quite familiar with the various forms of the Somatic Inkblot Series (SIS). Previous reports have described how the SIS enables clinicians to release the “inner cry” of suffering individuals. Unlike most other projective tests, the SIS asks the...
Since the original work on the Somatic Inkblot Series (SIS) method of projection begin in 1959, at attempts have been made to incorporate state of the art technology in the evolving forms of the procedure. In May of 1996, one of these was initiated with the assistance of Dr. Gilb...
The Somatic Inkblot Series-II video (SIS-Video) was administered to a 41 years old woman who was suffering from depression. After viewing the SIS-Video she dreamt about an early life sled dog team. At the age of 3 years, she witnessed her 18 months old brother being killed by sle...
SIS-II was administered to a 28 years, graduate, female patient. She had H/O various kinds of traumatic experiences during her childhood. Responses on SIS-II were able to bring out her inner cry.