Master in Relaxation Techniques and Integrated Psychotherapy

This Master is reserved for graduates in psychology (first and / or second level degree), psychologists and psychotherapists, graduates in medicine with psychological training (specialized or specializing in clinical psychology, psychiatry, neurology).

The keywords are: psychophysiological basis of relaxation, ability to practice techniques on oneself, patient and group management, flexibility in the application of techniques and contraindications of relaxation techniques, planning of relaxation courses. Comparison and practice between techniques of psychological modification (relaxation, biofeedback, hypnosis, meditation).

Participating in our master means:

• Acquire applied techniques with excellent results in various areas of psychology (in particular clinical, wellness, sport, work) and used in all the main psychological orientations (for example: cognitive-behavioral approach, systemic-relational, psychoanalysis, humanistic).
• To project towards the professional future: lapsychology is integration between psychological approaches and neurosciences.

To access the master you need to support a free individual orientation interview aimed at analyzing expectations, attitudes, motivations, psychophysical contraindications to participation, any doubts of the participant and clarifications on the master's program.

Testimonies students previous editions

"Relaxation was a great tool for me. It allowed me to discover and learn more about myself, to understand my fundamental values, to focus on my goals, to passionately live my work. It also allowed me to walk in life with greater serenity and self-esteem ... "(Valentina Morizio)

"Honestly I would not recommend the master to everyone, unconditionally. I certainly recommend it to those who, at this moment, feel they have the resources to open themselves to the discovery, or the rediscovery, of aspects of themselves. "(Sara Girotti)

"A professionally stimulating experience, an intense and engaging personal work, a challenging course ..." (Agnese Olivato)

"This course is a real inner journey, to discover an instrument that can give serenity, stability, making you remember that your body is a machine that works very well without the too many humoral alterations to which we daily undergo daily ..." (David D. Swan)

"I want to, now that the exam is over, to thank you for the precision with which the master was carried forward, the attention to the physiological aspects, the obvious competence and especially the extreme willingness to accommodate any doubts and requests for support. I am also happy about the severity of the exam, much more useful than the classic "proforma" tests to give me back the effective effectiveness of my learning. In fact, most of my current happiness is due to the fact that I really think I know something about relaxation and having passed this type of exam helps me to believe a little more "(Matteo Castilletti)

"To say that the lessons have been formative, is to use a euphemism ... both as energy and positivity that you transmit as teachers, both as an enthusiasm to deepen the topics treated once back home ..." (Adele Callegari)

"Teachers have a way of teaching original and adhering to their personalities. They know, beyond the contents, also transmit passion for this work, enthusiasm and thirst for knowledge. One thing I noticed is the total absence of "intellectual egoism" in them. Clinical experiences are often and generously shared ... "(Sabrina Menozzi)

"The possibility of managing the class, organizing and conducting the lesson in first person, having immediate feedback on my way of relating and leading the group, are live tests of what I will have to do with the future groups of patients that I will find to face ...... "(Luca Mazzucchelli)

"Bella was the experience of this master. Beautiful because complete and concrete, beautiful because you gave us cues that intrigued me, beautiful for your openness, availability and flexibility "(Marta del Bono)

Main topics covered:

Basic relaxation techniques:

• RMP Technique (Progressive Muscle Relaxation) according to E. Jacobson.
• JH Schultz Autogenous Training: exercises of the lower cycle (heaviness, heat, breath, heart, solar plexus, fresh forehead, face, eyes and shoulder-nape, reduced exercises).
• Biofeedback. Main parameters used: electromyography, heartbeat, peripheral temperature, skin conductance.

The psychophysiological bases of relaxation:

• The basics of relaxation: skeletal muscles and their functioning. Muscle tension and distension.
• Visceral relaxation: the smooth muscles involved in relaxation.
• Blood vessels: how they work and why they are involved in relaxation.
• Breathing: the lungs, the rib cage and the associated muscles.
• The heart and the cardiocirculatory system.
• The gastrointestinal system.
• The Central Nervous System, Peripheral and Autonomous (Sympathetic and Parasympathetic)
• Anatomo-physiological elements for the comprehension of the exercises of the eyes, of the face, of the shoulders-nape.
• Introduction to psychoneuroendocrinoimmunology (PNEI model).

Assessment centered on relaxation techniques:

• Introduction to the multidimensional cognitive-behavioral model.
• Biofeedback: basic-line (psychophysiological detection) and verification of the results of the practice of relaxation on individual participants during the master.

Conduction of the relaxation group and related psychological dynamics:

Each lesson, with the exception of the first, includes two moments in which the group is dedicated to the practice of relaxation. One of these two moments will be managed by the teachers while the other will be managed, starting from the second lesson, by the students who will follow one at a time during the lessons.

Introduction to imaginative techniques and cognitive restructuring:

The exercises of proponimento of Autogenic Training. introduction to marketing applied to psychology: how to design relaxation courses and how to advertise them:

Introduction to marketing applied to psychology.

• How to structure a relaxation course effectively: structuring goals, contents, costs, identifying the best areas of application of relaxation techniques.
• Examples of successful relaxation course projects.

The application of relaxation in the clinical setting:

• Clinical cases related to the main disorders of the DSM V Diagnostic Manual (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) by the American Psychiatric Association).
• Indications and contraindications of relaxation.

Experiential comparison between relaxation techniques AND MEDITATION:

"An interior path of awareness and meditation"

• The intention arises from the desire to know the nature of being.
• Where to start? What is knowing and how do we know?
• Is the mind the architect of our inner and outer world? If it is how it does it and through which modalities? Experiences through sensory consciousnesses and mental consciousness.
• What can we use to verify?
• First meditative meditation to observe the mind and its functioning.
• Inner practice is proposed as an instrument of investigation, knowledge and transformation.
• How can we compose an investigation path that can try to answer our questions?
• Meditation can be one of the tools. What is meditation? What are the main meditative paths.
• Concentration meditation that helps stabilize the mind. What is and how to practice it. What is useful for?
• Concentration meditation experience.
• What is awareness. The various levels of awareness.
• Awareness meditation helps to investigate the nature of being. What is and how it is practiced. What is useful for?
• Awareness meditation experience.
• The qualities of being at the service of oneself and of humanity.
• Meditation on the inner qualities. What it is and how to practice it.
• The purpose of meditation on inner qualities.

i) Experiential comparison between relaxation techniques and IPNOSI:

Introduction to hypnosis: what is hypnosis? What is not hypnosis? Judgments and prejudices on hypnosis. How is it different from relaxation techniques?

• Definition of trance and suggestion.
• The phenomenology of hypnosis.
• Hints on the history of hypnosis.
• Main applications of hypnosis.
• Examples of induction techniques of directive and non-directive trance.
• Practical experiences of hypnosis.

Introduction to the new Eriksonian hypnosis.

Trance as a natural phenomenon (common everyday trance) and non-directive. The concept of rapport and the role of the therapist. Therapeutic setting: a flexible and creative approach. A new concept of resistance. Reading and storytelling by Milton H. Erickson. The paradoxical technique.

• Maximum number of participants: 20
• Minimum number of participants for the activation of the Master: 8

Note: Master's students will be notified if their start is postponed at least 2 weeks before the scheduled start date if the minimum number is not reached.

Centro Studi Panta Rei

For the integration between Psychology, Medicine and Neuroscience

The Professional Association of the Centro Studi Panta Rei was founded in 1997 in the province of Como (Italy) by the will of Foglia Manzillo Maria Cristina (psychologist, psychotherapist and doctor) enrolled in the Register of Psychologists of Lombardy (No. 03/4845) and Register of the Doctors of the Province of Como (No. 6539) and Nasti Nunzio (psychologist and psychotherapist) enrolled in the Register of Psychologists of Lombardy (No. 03/4998). The Center was created by the will of two psychotherapists (Nasti Nunzio and Foglia Manzillo Maria Cristina) grew up together during the years of the University and the following 4 years of the graduate school and who, in the meantime, got married.

The name of the Study Center was not chosen by chance. The phrase "Panta Rei" immediately refers to the ancient Greek philosophy and to a particular philosopher, Heraclitus. The phrase is commonly translated into Italian as "Everything flows" or "Everything becomes." It was chosen because it suits well both our life choices and our subject matter.

We have made "Everything changes" a point of reference for our lives. In fact, we agreed on this: "If something in our lives does not satisfy us, it is worth trying to change it." We did not want to live regret for not having had the courage.

As young people, not being satisfied with the place where we lived (the former "Campania Felix"), we decided to come to the North, we chose Como, a completely unknown place: we knew that, for that decision, we would have paid or earned In the beginning, we paid a lot, at certain times too much but then, with the passage of time, we were happy both of the decision taken and of having managed to endure the pain and build our Center. after brick, with infinite patience, our small project is growing.Our experience has not been different from a psychotherapy path with the foreseeable difficulties to tear up some roots to plant new ones, with the attempts to demolish and rebuild, to transform and smoothen, broaden and change your horizon.We think, in fact, that we could not introduce ourselves to patients without having the courage to change what we did not like. or could we have guided another person on a journey that we had avoided ourselves?

And so we try to embody what our profession has taught us and to put to good use the instruments it has endowed us with.

The way we look at change is not extreme, like nothing that characterizes us. No extreme perspective belongs to us. We are convinced that changing too much is like not changing.

Our Mission

We like the scientific spirit because it is potentially democratic, has a collective soul, is open to change in the interest of knowledge. We write "potentially" because science is made by scientists who are human beings and introduce our weaknesses in the scientific field.

We love psychology, medicine and neuroscience. We are very attracted by the man's ability to face difficult situations, to be able to get up after a heavy thud. We like resilience (the ability of man to face the inevitable difficulties of life with a constructive spirit). That is why we have studied the subjects mentioned above and are full of admiration for the new discoveries of unimaginable neuroscience for much of the old science that has opposed it and still does not integrate the new discoveries in its daily clinical practice.

We like to take care of others (do not be manipulated or exploited by others, or the lawyers of the causes lost at the start, attention!). We think that good quality social relationships are a beautiful fertile ground for human serenity. This is for us.

Nature is another of our interests. We try to pollute less, to recycle better, to use composting in our home, to buy "zero km" food from local producers, to encourage organic farming methods, to take advantage of a walk to clean up a path (pains in the back allowing).

Our main interests:

Psychology

Although we specialize in cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, which is the foundation of our professional preparation, we are committed to recognizing their worthy place in psychological clinics to many other approaches. This makes our counseling paths "stimulating" and "involving" both for the students and for the teachers but also "challenging".

Medicine

A passion felt by both as much as for psychology.

The studies have been and still are fascinating for Maria Cristina, who is involved in a long journey due to serious health problems that have seen her both as a student and a sick woman hospitalized in various departments.

This makes the reason for suffering if we sometimes observe attitudes in medicine that are not exactly in line with what one would like to be "the elegance and professionalism of the medical profession".

Neuroscience

The love for the functioning of the body and the mind see their highest expression in the interest of neuroscience at the basis of which are modern studies on the formation of brain circuits in the course of life and on the plasticity of the same. There are opening unsuspected and contrasted scenarios for centuries in medicine and "classical" neurology on the brain's ability to reprogram and tackle the adversities that occur even if it is a result of stroke that happened years ago. Prospects are very promising for the future of diseases and neurological conditions considered for centuries unchanging.