Mental Space Psychology

Between 2010 and 2016, Lucas Derks explored the role of spatial interventions in psychotherapy. The conclusions were formulated in the book: Mental Space Psychology. (see “resources/books” on this very website.) The study is composed of a mixture of quantitative and qualitative data collection. On the one hand there were the evaluations of spatial psychotherapeutic interventions of which many were conducted with hundreds of clients. On the other hand, there were evaluations of more exotic practices, that however showed a clear effect of the application of spatial interventions.
The whole Mental Space Psychology project helped to support the central view of; space being the primary organizing principle of the mind.

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This image shows the exploration-procedure to find where in the client’s mental space a problematic concept is located.
An alternative way to look at psychological disorders and health. When all psychological phenomena are happening in mental space, this must also hold for psychological issues of all sorts. This will give a new direction to the psychotherapy of the future. Read more in our book Mental Spatial Diagnosis.