Psychology's New Design Science and the Reflective Practitioner by Susan Imholz & Judy Sachter

Author:Susan Imholz & Judy Sachter [Susan Imholz and Judy Sachter]
Language: eng
Format: epub

Figure 9. Representative connections among the limbic-hypothalamic pituitary and adrenal axis, demonstrating that these centers are linked to vascular tone regulation. This pathway suggests how emotional response of music may exert a level of top-down control on vasomotor activity and circulatory tone The illustration is not meant to be all inclusive.

6.4Summary

There have to be more comprehensive mental health therapy programs across all communities, and I believe people from many disciplines need to have a leading role in designing therapeutic settings. Design involves many levels. Everything from the exterior (colors and construction, noise monitoring) and interior structure of the building, to the timing of the therapies should be designed for maximum success or therapeutic benefit. Historically speaking, we know what works, there is a record and history of design experiments we can draw from.

I would like to see an integrated approach to new therapeutic design that focuses on mental health in contrast to mental sickness. An approach that uses sound healing in many forms integrated with cognitive-behavior therapy, creative arts, expressive therapies, yoga, tai chi, and nutrition. Much of mental health involves teaching people about how to take care of themselves physically and emotionally, and how to handle the daily challenges of living. Learning how to cultivate inner states of mental calm can lead to greater levels of success in personal relationships. From a design perspective, a calm inner mental state will naturally seek a resonant quality in outer designed environments, and vice versa. This would be both a supportive and preventative approach to creating therapeutic settings.

Sound mimics the quantum nature of the universe. Sound is both a wave and a geometric design pattern. When we Mindfully Listen and/or mindfully observe a design, we can experience both the wave and design components of sound by becoming aware of the vibrational experience Feeling Tones. Sound is a design and the design is a sound. According to Quantum Theory, human beings are connected to the basic structure of the universe through consciousness. Mind and matter are intrinsically and causally connected. When we Mindfully Listen we go beyond normal rational meanings, beliefs, and psychological defenses into a quantum universe of flowing sensory experience. Therefore our ability to conduct sensory vibrations through our mind and body will ultimately determine our consciousness. Nonverbal sensory-based therapies such as sound, visual design, architectural spaces, and color, when properly used, have the potential to create a sensory wave which is also a design that can by-pass the amygdala and go directly to the core brain. We are now vibrating in wave sensory feeling tones. On a physiological level we are creating anandamide molecules and spiking NO leading to a sense of inner calm and less identification with dysfunctional thought patterns. We are sensory processing our reality in resonance with the design geometries that are a component of tone. We are vibrating from the inside out, and our body becomes the visible geometric design component of vibration.

I am always optimistic. I have worked with patients that one might call hopeless, but I always had hope.

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