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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• De Giacomo, Piero
• L'Abate, Luciano
• Pennebaker, James W.
• Rumbaugh, Duane

Titel

Amplifications and applications of Pennebaker's analogic to digital model in health promotion, prevention, and psychotherapy

Ist Teil von

• Clinical psychology and psychotherapy, 2010-09, Vol.17 (5), p.355-362

Ort / Verlag

Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

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Quelle

Wiley Online Library Journals Frontfile Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article expands on James Pennebaker's original model in expressive writing, going from an Analogically unclear and unspecified experiential mass (A) to a Digital specification in words (D). Amplifications of this model are found in philosophy, psychodynamic theory and in Salience learning theory. Applications of this model involve expressive writing, going from ambiguous experiences (A) to using the Dictionary (D), and responding to Sentences with strong psychological impact (S). The undefined and ill‐defined analogical mass is constituted by traumas in Pennebaker's work and hurt feelings in L'Abate's and Vangelisti's works. Implications of these approaches for the practice of health promotion, prevention and psychotherapy are discussed. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Key Practitioner Message: • This article points to the presence of internal feelings that are produced by abusive, painful, hurtful or of negatively perceived events in a person's life at various levels of awareness, from deeply unconscious, semi‐conscious, conscious but not spoken, and conscious and spoken. • Consequently, there are at least four different techniques that can be used by practitioners to elicit and facilitate the emergence of these feelings through.  • Traditional talk‐based face‐to‐face psychotherapy focused mostly on those feelings rather than other distracting or tangential topics.  • Expressive writing, the Pennebaker's paradigm about past traumas for 15 to 20 minutes a day for 4 consecutive days.  • Programmed distance writing with interactive practice exercises or work‐books specifically focused on hurt feelings using a matching Informed Consent Form to be signed by participants before introducing any therapeutic approach to elicit hurt feelings.  • Administration of sentences with strong psychological impact that may be related to hurt feelings.