Influencia de la práctica de mindfulness en la apertura para conocer y comprender a los consultantes en contextos psicoterapéuticos. Un estudio cualitativo desde la perspectiva del terapeuta

Objectives

The goal was to understand and describe the perception of psychotherapists about the influence that their mindfulness practice would have in their openness with consultants.

Methodology

This is an exploratory and descriptive study, with a qualitative method. The sample was collected by a total of eight clinical psychologists from different theoretical-orientations and one psychiatrist with psychotherapeutic training, all of them had a formal mindfulness training. Data was first collected with semi-structured interviews and then transcribed and analyzed from the perspective of the Grounded Theory.

Results

The results suggest that the constant practice of meditation would lead to a deeper understanding of experience, changing their common way of being-in-the-world by bringing attention back to the present moment with openness to experience. This would be deployed as part of their personality, changing the way they perceive consultants in psychotherapy and their own role as therapists.

Conclusions

Finally, this study proposes an understanding of therapy where the therapist doesn’t sees it in terms of expert-patient, but as part of an encounter between two different ways of being-in-the-world (co-presence).