Cognitive-interpersonal reflections and insights on SASB for the purpose of case formulation

Journal title MODELLI DELLA MENTE
Author/s Tonino Cantelmi, Emiliano Lambiase
Publishing Year 2021 Issue 2021/1 Language Italian
Pages 43 P. 7-49 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/mdm1-2021oa12638
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As cognitive-interpersonal psychotherapists, one of our main interests is to de-scribe the patient’s dysfunctional interpersonal cycles: those acted out in the pre-sent and how they developed from the first dysfunctional dynamics experienced in childhood. Furthermore, we link these interpersonal dynamics to the person’s in-ner functioning, his mental schemes, coping strategies, metacognitive functioning, attachment style and the more general way in which the patient knows reality and, recursively, organizes the knowledge that he produces. In this process, for almost twenty years now, we have been integrating Lorna Benjamin’s SASB model, as it provides us a tool that allows us, in a coherent and clear way, to build a map of the patient’s interpersonal territory. On this map, then, we are able to draw the rest of the details of his inner world. In these years of work and study, theoretical and clinical, we have carried out some reflections and additions that we have decided to formalize and share, in or-der to help expand the possibility of using the SASB model within the panorama of cognitive interpersonal approaches, helping clinicians to understand not only its complexity but, above all, its potential. Our reflections concern all areas of the model: the subdivision into clusters of the three Surfaces, the principles that connect prototypical behaviors highlighting their relationships, the way in which to connect the relationships of the past with those of the present.

Keywords: SASB, cognitive interpersonal, metacognition, schemas, interpersonal cycles

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Tonino Cantelmi, Emiliano Lambiase, Riflessioni e approfondimenti cognitivo-interpersonali sulla SASB ai fini della concettualizzazione del caso in "MODELLI DELLA MENTE" 1/2021, pp 7-49, DOI: 10.3280/mdm1-2021oa12638