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Quaderni di Psicoterapia Cognitiva - Open Access

Studies and researches

No. 56 (2025)

Integrated Sequentializing Reconstruction (ISR): Sequencing as a self-observation method in psychotherapy for an effective application of techniques

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3280/qpc56-2025oa21774
Submitted
dicembre 23, 2025
Published
2026-01-12

Abstract

Increasing self-observation skills plays a central role in various models of psychotherapy.
The purpose of the present paper is to propose the procedure we have defined Integrated Sequentializing Reconstruction (ISR), a method aimed at developing self-observation skills, as a “platform” within which to implement the techniques available to the practitioner for setting up the psychotherapeutic work. ISR maintains the pivotal concepts of the Moviola, a method proposed by Vittorio Guidano (1991) in the post-rationalist field, attempting a systematization of the procedure and a greater focus on corporeality, sensory, perceptual and emotional aspects, which can allow a deepening of the process of organizing experience both top-down and bottom-up. After defining the relevance of a self-observation method in psychotherapy and outlining the basic principles of the Moviola, we will describe in detail specific objectives and methodological aspects of the procedures that characterize ISR. Next, we will define the possibilities of methodological integrations offered by ISR and note advantages and limitations of this method. While a research project is needed to corroborate the benefits of using ISR in psychotherapy, we consider this procedure to be a cross-cutting method, useful for multiple orientations, capable of fostering a structural methodological integration that allows different components of human experience to emerge in their complexity in the service of psychotherapeutic work.

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