A convite do Laboratório de Neurociência Psicológica do CIPsi, o Professor Wolfgang Tschacher irá apresentar a lecture "Interpersonal Synchrony in Psychotherapy: State of the Art and Future Challenges", no dia 12 de outubro, quinta-feira, às 14h, no Anfiteatro da EPsi.
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Bio:
Prof Wolfgang Tschacher is Professor emeritus, University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Bern where he founded the department of psychotherapy research, and at the FRIAS (Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies) at the university of Freiburg, Germany. His main interests are in quantitative psychotherapy research, time-series methods and experimental psychopathology, with an emphasis on dynamical systems, complexity science, embodied cognition, and phenomena of cognitive self-organization. Former president of the European chapter of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) he is a member of the board of directors of the Society for Mind-Matter Research. With an impressive scientific production Prof Wolfgang´s work was very influential for the development of time series methods for the modeling of psychotherapeutic processes and generally social systems.
Resumo:
The perennial philosophical problem of the mind-body relationship has become a topic of intense research activity in current cognitive and social science. A variety of empirical studies have resulted, which examined the reciprocity of mind and body in psychology and increasingly also in psychotherapy research. This ‘embodiment approach’ has also changed our understanding of the interaction dynamics of people. Here, the nonverbal and physiological synchrony between therapists and patients is concerned and has been found correlated with their relationship, with positive affect and finally therapy outcome. Psychopathological states such as schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorders are characterized by reduced interpersonal synchronies. A future challenge is introducing synchrony measures for multivariate time series originating from group or family therapy. It remains to be shown how the discrepancies between different synchrony algorithms can be resolved. With the goal of deriving practical implications for psychotherapy, I will also discuss open questions: Is interpersonal synchrony always a prosocial signature and thereby helpful? Is it reasonable for therapists to enhance synchrony intentionally?