The formalized practice of treating mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders through structured dialogue between a trained practitioner and a patient/client.
An integrative psychotherapy developed by Peter Fonagy (Hungarian-British psychoanalyst, UCL) and Anthony Bateman (British psychiatrist) that makes the enhancement of mentalization — the capacity to understand behavior in terms of…
Perls's Gestalt therapy, Gendlin's focusing and felt sense, Laing's existential psychiatry.
Freud, Jung, Lacan — the discovery of the unconscious.
The 'third force' in psychology (Rogers, Maslow): the person-centred approach, conditions of worth, self-actualisation; later self-determination theory (Deci and Ryan) as its empirical heir.
Research on prenatal hearing, newborn voice preference, cry melody, protoconversation and reciprocal imitation between carer and infant (DeCasper and Fifer, Mampe, Pawlby, Trevarthen and Malloch, Meltzoff, Tronick).
Schore's affect regulation, Porges's polyvagal theory, Hrdy's cooperative breeding: the biology of the caring bond.
Bert Hellinger (1925–2019), German psychotherapist and former Catholic priest, developed Family Constellations (Familienaufstellung) from the 1970s onward — a phenomenological, systemic approach to uncovering hidden loyalties,…
Jung, Hillman, Avens, Durand, Bachelard: archetypes, the imaginal, soul-making, the material imagination.