Active psychodynamic psychotherapy: moments of high receptiveness in working with emotions

Abstract

Moments of High Receptiveness (MoHR) offer support to active dynamic psychotherapy. Without disregarding the value of interpretive interventions, addressing the emotions and the procedural components is central within the therapeutic process: both in situations of great emotional intensity as when it disappears as in ideoaffective dissociation.

The active creation of moments of high receptivity is shown through clinical examples as a technical tool that facilitates access and modification of symptoms resistant before. Regardless of the various forms of intervention on emotions proposed: sequence of emotional states; allow uncritical emotional expression without analysis of the underlying content; use of triggering stimulus; use of self revelation; or experiential coupling among others.