The MSP video collection
On this page are the links to videos that explain a diversity of MSP subjects. The first documentary on MSP, Mental Space Psychology (2014) was created along with the foundation of the society for MSP. There is a full documentary on the Social Panorama model entitled Navigating Social Oceans (2022). Personality in Mental Space (2018) and Where is God (2023), a voyage into the spiritual panorama are documentaries that introduce topics that help diversify the knowledge and application of MSP. Following are a selection of videos created for training purposes, like Mental Spatial Psychiatric Diagnosis and Observation Training.
Over the last decades cognitive psychology is getting grips on the spatial foundation of experience. All demonstrations in this video are spontaneous and real. When the knowledge about Mental Space is used in psychotherapy it works miracles. International laboratory for mental space research & Society for Mental Space Psychology & Social Panorama.
Chungmei explores what the Social Panorama means for her. This documentary is made with Lucas Derks, the originator of this psychotherapeutic toolkit. What does it mean to be treated with this set of tools? And will this change the future of psychotherapy?
How to explain the super-fast processes that make up perception, experience and memory in mental space? Here Lucas Derks tries to make that understandable with common metaphors of computers.
A video documentary about the spiritual panorama. If all that is going on in the psyche is happening in the 3-D space around the brain, this must also be true for spiritual experience.
Personality is partly an unconscious spatial construction in which the general representation of time, the self and humanity are the key parts. This video shows how a trained psychologist can explore personality in mental space. A demonstration of highly technical psychotherapy shows a method to change personality traits by removing the limiting beliefs that block the change. Embodied Cognition, Social Cognition, NLP, Mental Space Psychology, Embodied Simulation.
Psychological issues, from fears to personality disorders, are like all psychological activity, localized in mental space. This will be the diagnostic tool of the future. Such a diagnosis tells what needs to be different. The future will show how easy it will be to implement mental spatial diagnosis in clinical psychology and psychiatry.
The video is meant to help people to see the spatial accessing cues: eyes and hands.
Jacqueline Heemskerk talks to Gert Arts about how she came to work with food in mental space. An interview.
There are many ways to look at the development of the science of psychology. To see it as a match between paradigms gives an insight in why mental space psychology is a logical step forward. This is an illustrated lecture about paradigms in psychology.
This brief video was shot for the 2023 Mental Space Psychology conference entitled: Applications in mental space. The paradigm of mental space psychology is a trap; if you start to get into it there is no way out.
Clean Space is a process-oriented, content-free, spatial approach originated by the late David Grove. Lawley, Tompkins and Way developed the method into a 5-phase process. Here you see the new paradigm of mental space psychology at work.
This is a 10% shortened authentic session. The client wants to express more (emotions). After exploring several things, it is found that he keeps his feeling of self outside his body, high at his back. This is known in the Social Panorama as a way to “hold back yourself”. To shift this location, first a deep belief change is needed. This takes most of the time. It is an example how NLP is developing from a more verbal experiential towards a more “spatial” technology; or briefly: From a word game into a space game.
How to explain the unconscious processes that are governing our social life. Here an example.
Thanks to Lucas Derks’ friendship with the American psychologist John David Sinclair, he could review accepted theories about sleeping and dreaming. The alternative picture fits to neuroscience and experience what makes it very hard to resist. However it takes imagination to see how this works.
Demonstration of how to look for clouds of darkness with a depressed client.
2017 SOMSP started a clinical experiment with a new method to deal with depressions where the client did not know, when asked for it, what was causing. This video is a record of all considerations and technical sides of this work. Later this method became included in the book “healing depressions” from 2025 by Lucas Derks.
In space informed psychotherapy and coaching one can work with basic human needs, like “belonging”. This session is an example.
The follow-up over time of this work was very positive. I am very thankful to the client for having made this video possible.
How do people create relationships in their mind? Partner relationships change when children come on the scene. The social panorama is the classical spatial cognition instrument to make issues in the family understandable. And help relational therapists and their clients to resolve parenting issues. Lucas Derks explains.
Guiding psychotherapy clients from being depressed to enjoying their life again, takes a radical shift in approach. Depression is mostly seen as a disease, caused by an hormonal imbalance in the brain, diagnosed by DSM5. However, when you look at the real (3) mayor causes and in detail, at the complexity of the depressed person’s experience, fresh psychotherapeutic insights do appear. Wassili takes us beyond the accepted paradigm, and shows ways to overcome this serious misery.
Dankzij recente inzichten in de psyche, kunnen we veel beter begrijpen hoe eetproblemen werken en wat er aan te doen is. Mentale Ruimte Psychologie is de toekomst voor therapie, coaching en research. Hier gaat het om de onbewuste locatie die mensen aan voedsel geven, en die bepaald of ze zich gezond en evenwichtig kunnen voeden.
Psychotherapist Andrew T. Austin centers on the metaphors that depressed clients use for their suffering. He argues and demontrates that dismissing these expressions causes therapists to also miss the inapropriate coping strategy behind the symptoms. He starts with an original view on the neural basis of depression.
The first social panorama training in Tokyo was an exciting event. It was followed by 2 in presence and 1 online training. It was so nice to see how this model fits in a culture that seems so different but on the level of abstraction of social representations this difference is nil. However, social panoramas in Japan are quite typical.
I added English subtitles tot his YouTube video (click on CC). Title means: An expert guinea pig in psychiatry. Dutch spoken.
