Neuropsychophysiological orientation (N.P.P.)

Neuropsychophysiological approach originates from the integrated Theory of cerebral hemispheres by prof. M. Trimarchi, (1982). Such a theory integrates the contributions coming from neuro-sciences, on the specialization of the two cerebral hemispheres, with the behavioural sciences, connected by the Physics of information.
LEFT HEMISPHERE (L.H.), where language and logic develop, appears to be the dominant one in most of people, it elaborates quickly the information and responds in a schematic way through memories and learnt models which it protects, trying to prevail and aiming at what it considers useful for itself. RIGHT HEMISPHERE (R.H.), elaborates the information in a slower and more impartial way, adding all of new that it detects, without comparing it with memories, but looking for harmony between itself and the environment, respecting the objective truth and looking for flexible and creative solutions through intuition, dreams, emotions, non-verbal language.
For our healthcare it is necessary a cooperation between the two hemispheres, which is often missing because of the processes of ‘lateralization’, which due to the influence of environment and education, create reinforcements which tend to make a hemisphere express more on the other.
What we perceive through R.H. should be translated into a fitting language for the situation and communicated through L.H., this often doesn’t happen as the predominance of L.H. generates automatisms not linked to real perception, but dominated by conditionings** and models.
On the contrary the predominance of R.H., which doesn’t use a logical-rational strategy, but acts through the usage of visual-spatial strategies with a larger competence connected to the elaboration of emotions, can create difficulties of adaptation to social environment and communication with other people (especially if they are L.H. dominant), in management of emotions, with various consequences depending on the case.
NPP oriented psychological consulting allows, with a psycho-educational intervention, to re-establish a balance that provides a good communication and a harmonic action between the two hemispheres for the expression of conscience and consciousness through a self-determination process.
The “word” plays the role of “elective medicine” (Trimarchi M., 1991), as the interchange of information is an energetic interchange (scientific paradigm E/M/I, i.e. Energy=Matter=Information, Trimarchi M., Manzelli P., 1985, concept which enlarges the law of Physics of Einstein, by considering the interchange of information as energetic interchange).
This is to be considered as a base of ‘Physics of information’, a field which applies physics to the processes of interchange of information, even at the level of five senses, being seen as passageways (transduction) of energy from a form to another, giving word, being seen as sound energy, modulated by brain, the dignity of ‘medicine’, if consciously used to generate appropriate cerebral replies.
These competences allow, after an exhaustive medical history, 1) to identify the causes of psychic and neuropsychophysiological processes acting, 2) to find clear connections between traumas and current problems, 3)to perform a psycho-educational intervention which respects cerebral physiology, adapting it to the cultural and evolutional profile of the person. This is how we produce an enhancement of perception of reality, in an objective and impartial sense, therefore we can make more efficient evaluations and decisions.
By activating frontal lobes, where project-making capability has its own site, we restore a balance that transposes into wellbeing, quietness, more communication between cerebral hemispheres then physiological energy, self-confidence and personal development.
By comprehending other people behaviours and society’s dynamics this integrated vision allows to understand the reason of many injustices and torts that the child since birth and then the adult stand, to be able to file past and dedicate to a conscious construction, in present, of one’s future.
By respecting the dignity of the person we stimulate one to let express within those universal and genetic values of the ‘genetic I’ of dignity, as the respect of life within oneself and in the others, inner freedom, sense of justice and love, first towards oneself then gradually towards others, outside stiff and dogmatic models. This is how the ‘conscious I’ of a person is born and develops, the conscience, which, by being based on these universal and physiological values, allows gradually to rule and overcome anxieties and conditionings. This is to be able to evaluate elaborate and decide about the actions to be performed, and not to fall continuously into automatisms and models being not appropriate to objective reality and not suitable to find creative solutions, useful and right to solve specific problems which a specific person, with his story and genetics, must face or manage. All of this without allowing excess of anxiety , of stress and depression, etc., or defences against these conditions to reduce one’s efficiency and confidence in one’s means and possibilities of success.

Notes:

* Conditioning has been studied and applied on humans for long time and it may be extended to all repetitive behaviours.
In practice if we combine two stimulus, an important one and an external one, but at the same time, and if we repeat this several times with pleasing or negative effect, it happens that on the introduction of this second stimulus we have within the brain a similar response to that of physiological stimulus.
For example if a person had anxiety from going to school for a long time, that person will tend to have it every time a similar stimulus (a similar building) comes in contact with the person, and if the person used to eat something to calm the anxiety, afterwards he’ll tend to use this way even when it causes health troubles.

** ‘Brain imaging’ techniques (‘neuromaging’)
The application of neural-radiological recent techniques, continuously more sophisticated ‘brain imaging’, has allowed to know much better the cerebral physiology, the physiology of nervous system, and the cerebral malfunctions which cause several mental diseases. In many cases we could presuppose or highlight the anatomic and functional correlated of mental activity through these methods of computerized visualization of the brain, generating scientifically founded bases for psychological and neuropsychological theories.
Main techniques of ‘brain imaging’:
EEG, computerized electroencephalogram; CAT, computerized axial tomography; NMR, nuclear magnetic resonance; SPECT; PET; etc.

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