Psychotherapists' interoceptive awareness and accuracy.
Objective: This study examined the different dimensions of interoception in psychotherapists to better understand the significance of interoception in therapeutic work. Methods: Data on objectively defined interoceptive accuracy, response confidence and subjectively assessed interoceptive awareness...
| Publicado en: | Counselling & Psychotherapy Research Vol. 25; no. 4; pp. 1 - 13 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2025
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