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Saldanha (1997) describes seven phases that usually unfold

during a therapeutic session resorting to “transpersonal”
techniques:

Les 7 fases de Sandanha de la sessio terapeutica

• Reconeixement
• Identificació
• Desidentificació
• Transmutació
• Transformació
• Elaboració
• Integració

1.1.1. Acknowledgement. The client gets in touch with his

symptoms or troubles with the help of the therapist. This
can happen at any, or several, levels of the client’s
personal or even subtle structure;
1.1.2. Identification. The client focus the symptom or
suffering, gets into it, expresses it with the greatest
possible intensity. The role it has on the full
psychological structure is clarified;
1.1.3. De-identification. The client takes a distance from
the contents of the experiential work, de-identifies after
a previous catarsis, and starts opening for new
possibilities;
1.1.4. Transmutation. The client gets insights, elaborates,
as superconscious levels or energies get more clearly
into the picture and help finding new meanings, creative
solutions, postures;
1.1.5. Transformation. The client feels differently about his
previous conflicts, finds a new perspective, as he feels
that his previous situation has changed;
1.1.6. Elaboration. A global vision of the situation the
clients has been going through emerges and he is now
fully getting into a different mindset;
1.1.7. Integration. The client integrates the therapeutic
gains into his personal life and his worldviews, even
changes his values.