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Catharsis

5 techniques · 4 approaches
AEDP
Completing the Affective Wave
Completing the Affective Wave
Accompanying the client through a full emotional cycle: rising → peak → subsiding → opening, without interrupting and without trying to "res…
Bioenergetics
Mattress Hitting
Mattress Hitting
An expressive technique: hitting a mattress or pillow with the fists or a tennis racquet. Release of suppressed anger, rage, and frustration…
Gestalt
Amplification Technique
Amplification Technique
The client takes a barely noticeable bodily signal, emotion, gesture, or word and amplifies it several times. A barely audible voice becomes…
Gestalt
Exaggeration Experiment
Exaggeration Experiment
The client takes a negative belief, gesture, or emotion and exaggerates it to absurdity. "I am a failure" becomes "I am absolutely, mathemat…
Psychodrama
Catharsis
Catharsis
A Psychodrama technique used to make emotional, relational, or role processes visible and transform them through lived experience.
Materials are informational and educational and summarize publicly available scientific sources. They are not medical or psychological advice, are not intended for self-diagnosis or self-treatment, and do not replace consultation with a qualified professional.