Its main objective is to reach the conflicts basic conflicts of the patient In basic conflicts the subject usually has inserted a series of deficiencies in their needs, while a number of emotional schemata distortedof the complex emotion-motivation-cognition type, which prevent a homeostasis both psychic and physical and that are expressed through eight channels of expression of the basic conflict: motivationalorganic, psychosomatic, psychogenic, emotional, cognitive, interpersonal and behavioral relationships.
Reciprocal Interaction Therapy It is usually recommended for its good empirical results in the following disorders and circumstances:
- Anxiety disorders
- affective disorders
- psychosomatic disorders
- Eating Behavior Disorders
- Pain
- Psychological treatment in the intervention in the operating room (surgical intervention with hypnotic anesthesia)
- smoking treatment
Psychotherapeutic use of the IRR
The therapist will receive the patient accompanying him and without putting barriers in data collection, accepting in the first sessions the meaning What does the patient give to his issue or symptom (containment). Subsequently, the therapist will escort the patient trying to participate with the same language and with similar rhythms in both verbal and non-verbal expression.
so that the IRR work, the therapeutic relationship must be based on respect and trust. This relationship establishes a link asymmetricuntil reaching the therapeutic moment of inflection, where the patient inverts the asymmetry (reciprocally asymmetric relationship).
The therapist ends up being an equivalent of the person referential basic of the patient (secondary referential person). Subsequently, the therapist will establish a change plan in the patient. Can you imagine what would have to change the patient in his conduct, cognitionsinterpersonal relationships, representation system of their environmentetc., to achieve a remission of the symptom or problem.
The therapist will then change his conduct and its cognitions in the presence of the patient. This change is one of the most important in Reciprocal Interaction Therapy. The therapist will change his behaviour and his way of thinking in front of the patient. In this way, if the aforementioned points have been reached, the change of the therapist will position subject at a new angle to the problem, such as a launch pad for the last of the parts of the framework therapeutic.
at the end of each intervention and in the same session, the therapist will carry out an analysis with the subject of the changes originated with these interventions both in their emotional schema and in their vision of the problem that is being trying. The therapeutic effect, and therefore the change in the patient, it is not done by the intervention itself, but by the subsequent discussion together with the previous change in behavior and the cognitions of the therapist. After coming into contact with and approaching all levels of the patient through the admiration of the therapist, the patient introjects this learning as well as his own admiration.