In successful cases it turns out that throughout the therapeutic process the problematic voice establishes contact with the community of voices within the self, negotiating an understanding until it is assimilated by the community and become a resource (Stiles, 2001). This process reflects the mutual understanding between the dominant voice and the problematic voice, so the voice initially problematic joins (being assimilated) to the community and becomes an accepted aspect of the experience. Thus, the client will no longer experience the self rigidly and starts to live it as a flexible set of characters (Honos-Webb & Stiles, 2002). Brinegar, Salvi and Stiles (2008) examined the case of Lisa, a patient with a diagnosis of Depression Major, accompanied for 15 sessions of therapy focused on Emotions. Lisa was depressed and willing to understand why he felt that way. Described as isolated, trapped, depressive symptomatology that related to manifesting practice game of the husband and the fact that you feel unable to control their behavior. Despite being considered a success, at the …show more content…
Thus, the depressive symptoms were attributed to his financial insecurity and the fact that you feel slighted by considering working in a lower position. George was chosen at random to integrate a 19 Protocol therapy sessions focused on Emotions. The three themes identified were at level 1 (unwanted thoughts) the scale of APES at the beginning of the intervention. The desire to escape from his wife (theme 1) progressed to near the level 3 (light placement problem/clarification), once George had formulated a statement of the problem but had not managed to acquire new understanding of same. George, through psychotherapy, experienced more deeply your experience, but failed to reach an understanding or control of same (Honos-Webb, Stiles, Greenberg & Goldman,