Roman Hytych

• PhD
• Professor (Assistant) at Masaryk University

People with medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS) are often referred to psychotherapy, which has been shown to be modestly effective in reducing symptom severity. An investigation of clinical strategies used by experienced psychotherapists in the treatment of clients with MUPS may offer important insights into the treatment process with th...

Treatment specificity and adherence to treatment manuals represent essential components of the medical model in psychotherapy. The model assumes that psychotherapists who work with the same type of clients and who identify with the same theoretical approach work very similarly. This study illustrates the shortcomings of that assumption and explores...

The present case study aims to explore the unfolding of the working alliance in a case that ended with the client dropping out of psychotherapy, unilaterally cutting off her contact with the therapist. However, both quantitative and qualitative outcome assessments strongly suggested that the client achieved good results. An analysis of session tran...

Objective: While demonstrably beneficial, routine outcome monitoring (ROM) introduces a considerable reductionism in the measurement of psychotherapy change. The goal of this study is to illustrate how retrospective client interviewing can capture the breadth and personal meaningfulness of a client's change. Method: Four clinical vignettes are pres...

The talk will look at two different models where psychedelics have been used together with psychotherapy. First, we will take a look at Takiwasi - Center for Drug Addiction Treatment in Peru. Takiwasi's therapeutic model is unique in its field, characterized by the combination of psychotherapy with the traditional medicine of the Amazon where the p...

Future trainees go through difficult decision-making processes when starting their first psychotherapy training. The choice of training in psychotherapy integration is a specific type of this process. In this study, qualitative data were obtained from the motivational letters, in-depth semi-structured interviews and e-mail questionnaires of 26 futu...

Introduction On the neurochemical level, ayahuasca act in similar way across different settings, but its effect are also highly dependent on the context of use. Among others the psychotherapeutic one is often implemented. In Takiwasi, the Center for Rehabilitation of Drug Addicts in Peru, drug addicts are treated by a combination of psychotherapy a...

Presented study is focused on the process of experiencing and coping with anxiety symptoms in emerging adults not willing to seek professional help. Eight semi-structured interviews were conducted and analyzed using grounded theory. A model was created in which central position is occupied by respondents‘ efforts to suppress the symptoms, to hide t...

Nowadays, many European countries have implemented inclusive policy of active ageing. Our study explores interpersonally shared meanings of ageing process that are carried by the specific social group of older women, members of non-governmental organization that encourages the personal development of women after the age of fifty and their active ap...

In my talk I will present the results of qualitative research conducted in Takiwasi - Center for Drug Addiction Treatment and Research on Traditional Medicines in Peru. Takiwasi's therapeutic model is unique in its field, characterized by the combination of psychotherapy with the traditional medicine of the Amazon where psychedelic brew known as ay...

Nowadays, many European countries have implemented inclusive policy of active ageing. The study explores interpersonally shared meanings of ageing process that are carried by the specific social group of older women, members of nongovernmental organization that encourages the personal development of women after the age of fifty and their active app...

Formulace případu je využívána nejen jako nástroj klinické praxe, ale také vzdělávání. Předložený text se zabývá možnostmi využití formulace případu jako součásti psychoterapeutických výcviků a univerzitní výuky psychologie a psychoterapie. Jsou zde popsány vzdělávací přínosy formulace případu a vzdělávací postupy navrhované autory odborné literatu...

Účelem textu je představení různých modelů psychoterapeutické formulace případu. Koncept formulace případu je nejprve definován, jsou uvedeny jeho základní vlastnosti a účel. Následně jsou představeny specifické aspekty formulace případu z pohledu odlišných psychoterapeutických přístupů a modely aspirující na využitelnost různými přístupy. Zmiňovan...

The aim of our paper is to outline possibilities of the group psychotherapy with adolescent population. In theoretical part, the paper deals with relevant characteristics of the adolescence stage along with applicability of group therapeutic interventions and specifics in the work with this population. Then it describes a particular example of inte...

Mechanismus změny se dnes stává centrální výzkumnou otázkou společně s širším pochopením fenoménu všímavosti. Ačkoli zájem o něj projevují především nové směry v KBT (Baer, 2005; Didonna, 2008; Germer, Siegel, Fulton, 2005), je blízký i dynamicky orientovaným psychoterapeutům (French, 2006; Horowitz, 2002). Konceptu všímavosti se rovněž blíží parad...

V této kapitole poukazujeme na důležitost kulturně historického pohledu na téma identity a sebepojetí v období dospívání. Nejprve velmi stručně ukážeme, jak se vědomá sebereflexe a reprezentace vlastního já (self) začala postupně prosazovat jako důležitý motivační a regulační činitel života jednotlivce. Při tomto historickém exkursu zůstaneme zakot...

V pojetí kulturně specifického eticko-psychologického systému abhidhamma, ze kterého vychází psychoterapeutický směr satiterapie, je důvěra jednou z klíčových schopností mysli. Text kazuistiky ukazuje, jak je v terapeutickém procesu na podkladě kultivace všímavosti rozvíjena klientova schopnost zdravě podložené důvěry a jak směřuje k růstu kompeten...

Every day we are confronted with transitions between different domains of experiencing. These transitions can be done either mindfully with clear comprehension, which opens the opportunity for drawing of energy and wisdom, or we can ignore their existence and we can get lost there. According to psychology of abhidhamma, the key for skilful transiti...

Aesthetic experiencing of colours and elements research has been proceeding for two years in the course Dibba–vihara, tranquility and concentration meditation based on psychology of Abhidhamma. One of the research goals is to find out, whether the training of concentration can affect changes in aesthetic experiencing. Grounded theory methods have b...

Vyd.1. „Skilful living in the present brings a pleasant life in the future.” This sentence expresses in short the results of the research that was focused on the social representations of death in the populations of theravada monks and their lay supporters in Sri Lanka. It is a unique example of etnopsychological research in the history of Czech an...

The contribution presents the results of the first two stages of the research that is focused on the inquiry of aesthetic perceiving and experiencing change caused by an application of tranquility meditation techniques (samatha). Buddhist psychology of Abhidhamma is their source. In the first stage the field research of meditation techniques was ex...

Skillfully mastered presence produce pleasant future: Social representations of death in Sri Lanka in the populations of theravada monks and their supporters Title of the article pointed in one hand to the subject of research, social representations of death in examined populations, in other hand to the final research results. Stress is put on met...

The article concentrates upon the issue of death and its social representations in Sri Lanka. First, the article briefly introduces grounded theory and theory of social representations of Serge Moscovici and Wolfgang Wagner as they constitute the theoretical framework of the presented research. The articles depicts the social representations of dea...

Pozice vědce, z níž zkoumá svůj předmět zájmu, rozlišení jednotlivých typů zdrojů dat a především využití principů budování zakotvené teorie v procesu etnopsychologického výzkumu jsou hlavními tématy tohoto příspěvku. Proces výzkumu je analyzován jak z pohledu jednotlivých typů kódování, tak i z pohledu neustále se opakujících fází výzkumného proce...

The purpose of the submitted article was to contribute to the grounded theory of social representations of death. Pre-research design, in the context of oncology department, was based on the theory of social representations (Moscovici, 1961, 1984; Wagner, 1994, 1995) and on the methodological approach of grounded theory (Glaser, Strauss, 1967; Stra...