“The dual-dialectical conceptualization: A case of Crohn’s disease”:Correction to Navon (2016).

This article describes psychotherapy with a young patient with Crohn’s diseases. The presented psychotherapeutic approach demonstrates the psychotherapeutic application of the dual–dialectical concep tualization to physical illness patients. The dual–dialectical conceptualization is grounded in 3 major rules: duality, contradiction, and complementarity. On the basis of the assumption that patients habitually regard their problems as 1-dimensional and thus tend to become 1-dimensional in a comp letely negative attitude, the dual–dialectical conceptualization suggests a psychotherapeutic process in order to help patients expand their negative and 1-dimensional, perhaps “stuck,” problem into an alternative positive mental state. A novel psychotherapeutic tool known as differentiation/i ntegration work is introduced to provide physically ill patients with freedom of choice and help them distinguish between the alternatives suggested in their verbal expressions and psychotherapeutic themes. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - March 6, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: No authorship indicated Source Type: research