title: Resonating minds: a school-independent theoretical conception and its empirical application to psychotherapeutic processes.
abstract: The resonating minds theory will be introduced as a means to describe psychotherapeutic processes and change. It builds on the mind-brain interface with psychotherapeutic interventions causing change in the brain, an altered brain causes changes in the emotional, cognitive, and behavioral regulation, and this again will change the types of subsequent therapeutic interventions. For the empirical assessment of this theory the therapeutic cycles model will be used. It is based on computer assisted analysis of verbatim transcripts using emotional tone, abstraction and narrative style as language measures. Sample applications and studies are shortly presented in order to provide evidence for the applicability and face validity of this approach.
authors.affiliation: Sektion Informatik in der Psychotherapie, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany. erhard.mergenthaler@uni-ulm.de
authors.forename: Erhard
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mergenthaler
mesh_terms: D000339:Affect; D036262:Empirical Research; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity / Q000502:physiology; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011613:Psychotherapy