Psychoneuroimmunology research, narrative medicine, positive psychologies, research on the health benefits of traditional values, social networks, and occupation, modern concepts of embodied cognition, and renewed interest in the person-to-person elements of the clinician/patient relationship, all point to a gradual closing of the culturally-assumed gap between mind and body. 

The study reported here investigated links between patient personality factors and patient symptoms, and whether these were associated with patients continuing their therapy to the Clinic's two-year time limit or discontinuing at an earlier stage. 

Gestalt's own uneasy history with individualism has sometimes been reflected in approaches to practice and the training of clinicians that have privileged self-reliance and unintentionally fostered a culture of narcissism and isolation.

The link between trauma and the development of mental health problems has also been well established. However it can be argued that mental health services in Australia have not adequately integrated this knowledge into practice through the provision of trauma-informed care that includes therapeutic approaches. 

The psychoanalytic thinking informing or driving our work in infant-parent psychotherapy may be quietly subversive in a number of ways. This thinking is subversive in that there is a high priority given to working with complexity rather than simplicity, and working with and enacting the immediacy of unconscious fantasy.

Social phenomenology suggests that, within the contest of psychotherapy, full-disclosure is impossible. In this presentation this inter-subjectivity problem is addressed as it relates to psychotherapy and  strategies that psychotherapists may use to facilitate authentic inter-subjective experience with clients are proposed.