This study is about using applied psychology to change internal dominant focus to the positive to heal severe depression and create motivation for work.
The four cases cited here were suffering from severe depression when they came for therapy. Individualized Clinical Hypnotherapy was applied along with psychoanalysis, age regression, dialectical behavior therapy and cognitive behavior therapy . About 4 to 20 hours of therapy was required depending on each case. The scores on Beck's Depression Inventory were of severe depression in all the four cases. Three were cases of unipolar depression and one was a case of bipolar depression. Scores of depression came down to normal in all the four cases. While the unipolar depression healed completely, bipolar symptoms reduced considerably but did not go away completely. All the four cases reported inner child healing issues . There were cases of severe trauma in childhood . The clients went through tears and outbursts during therapy . After the healing and therapy was done , they could achieve their ambitions through some minor changes in their thinking patterns. Due to inner child healing , the internal dominant focus changed to positive.
The Introduction
Applied Psychology has become a diversified subject with several branches. In this research
study, different branches of applied psychology were used to address the same problem from
several perspectives, The intention of using more than one method in an integrated manner is
that the target problem can be addressed from varied directions and broken down in components
which can be individually addressed and healed by using different types of therapies together, in
the same session. This approach is called an Eclectic Approach of applied Psychology.
“Eclectic therapy seeks to directly meet the client and their needs by drawing from multiple
therapy approaches in order to select the best treatment for each individual client. It can be
viewed as a combination of different therapy approaches that is tailored to each client depending
on their problems, goals, and expectations. An eclectic therapist seeks to understand each client
in all their complexity in order to be successful in helping clients reach their own goals.1 This
involves learning about the multiple facets of each client including their thoughts, feelings,
behaviors, relationships, and more. The therapist then identifies core ingredients that
various psychotherapy theories share in order to help clients solve the problems that caused them
to seek therapy.” (Peterson, T.2023)
“Applied psychology is the study and ability to solve problems within human behavior such as
health issues, workplace issues, or education. There are various specialty areas within applied
psychology including clinical psychology, counseling services, medicinal psychology, and
forensic psychology.” (Galton.F,2023)
In this paper, we will cover the reasons for using various branches of applied psychology
together in an integrated manner to solve one problem viz. severe depression.
This research is based on therapeutic intervention of four subjects who were suffering from
severe depression when they came for therapy. There were about 8-15 therapies combined in
each 2-5 hours session.
This study aimed at the treatment of severe depression through changing the internal dominant
focus of the person to positive. A severely depressed person is negative pre-dominantly and
hence, the internal dominant focus needs to be uplifted to pre-dominantly positive to rise above
depression .
The Beck’s Depression Inventory(BDI), which is a standardized tool for verifying depression
was used for assessment. It has twenty -one parameters of assessing depression and scores range
from severe depression to normal.
The aim of the therapeutic intervention was to help the subject/person overcome depression .
The objectives of the treatment were that –
1) The person starts focusing on positive aspects of life deliberately.
2) Restarts taking interest in daily living activities like studying , bathing, eating ,working etc.
3) Starts focusing on smaller achievable goals that make him/her feel positive.
The hypothesis was that:
Applied therapies will help in changing internal dominant focus(IDF) to positive.
The sub hypotheses were :
1. Applied Therapies help the person detach from feelings of negativity.
2. Applied therapies make the person realize that focus can be shifted to positive.
3. Applied therapies train the person to shift to an internal dominant focus on positivity.
Each person had to get out of an internal dominant focus on severe feelings of depression (as
assessed by BDI) and shift the internal dominant focus to achievable goals that made him[her
feel positive step by step, so that motivation to work would develop automatically.
The gap in research has been that traditionally applied psychological therapies have not been
combined with energy healing therapies like Hypnosis, NLP and Reiki . This paper gives
evidence of the fact that results are much quicker and can be maintained by the client through
development of automatic self-awareness after therapy is over, if energy healing methods are
used for removing negativity and applied psychology methods are implemented step by step,
subsequently. for generating positivity in the subconscious mind.
As I have been working since seventeen years and am well trained in several types of therapies, I
work with the presumption that the subconscious mind can be accessed and trained to think positive with teaching mindfulness, meditation and positive visualizations along with therapy.
Methods like applied forgiveness ( energy cord cutting therapy), accessing the subconscious mind for understanding deeper feelings(hypnotherapy) and deleting memories(NLP) help to erase stuck negative patterns of thinking. Alongside, methods like CBT, Gestalt Therapy and
Dialectical Behavior Therapy are used to find the root cause of problems from the subconscious mind, understand the figure to ground situation and perspectives of people involved ,
respectively. After removing the focus on negative patterns of thinking with various methods, the therapy aims to install positive patterns of thinking, given the person’s circumstances,perceptions and desires.
The same eclectic , multi modal integrated approach , customized for individual needs, can also be used for other mental/emotional disorders such as anxiety, relationship problems, conflicts, fears, phobia, concentration problems, addictions etc.
The purpose of presenting this paper is to make people aware of the perspective that spirituality can be used as a strong tool of healing along with psychological interventions.
For more , please check the link :
https://www.ijfmr.com/papers/2024/6/32089.pdf
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