The Trans-formative Process Through Trainees’ Perspectives: Between Clinical Development and Identity

Journal title TERAPIA FAMILIARE
Author/s Gregorio Manieri, Francesco Gesualdo
Publishing Year 2026 Issue 2025/139
Language Italian Pages 17 P. 91-107 File size 217 KB
DOI 10.3280/TF2025-139006
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The article explores the affective and professional meaning of clinical training within a systemicrelational psychotherapy training context, through the application of Emotional Text Analysis (AET) to the narratives of second, third, and fourthyear trainees. The qualitative analysis of the narrative corpus identified five core semanticemotional domains within the training process: belonging, resonance, metamorphosis, identity, and authenticity. These matrices describe training as a transformative experience, potentially replicable in contexts that share similar training premises, capable of integrating personal vulnerabilities and resources in the construction of the professional Self. The training group emerges as a secure base that fosters differentiation, the reflective use of supervision, and the development of an authentic and creative therapeutic stance. The living sculptures created by the groups across different years embody the movement of transformation at a bodily level, confirming the embodied nature of systemicrelational learning. Clinical training thus takes shape as a generative process, in which knowledge arises from encounter and professional growth is grounded in reciprocity.

Keywords: Therapist training; Emotional Text Analysis (AET); Systemicrelational approach; Clinical supervision; Professional identity; Transformative learning.

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Gregorio Manieri, Francesco Gesualdo, Il processo tras-formativo valutato dagli specializzandi. Tra crescita clinica e identità in "TERAPIA FAMILIARE" 139/2025, pp 91-107, DOI: 10.3280/TF2025-139006