The first field of interest in my clinical work was a psychological training in a hospital floor for cardiac patients. I was to report the results of my observations about their expressions of anxiety and comment about the correlations between stress factors and cardiac symptoms.

I first discovered that observing and then intervening was an unrealistic psychological step to be really in contact with someone who suffers. I preferred to evaluate my training into a combined intervention where the observation process was not a matter of personal deductions but a spontaneous part of a large intervention to listen and talk to patients about their experience of anxiety instead of a solitary interpretation.

The whole process of jumping into analytical cogitation about the patient reality was for me a pure utopia of the mind because I believed and still believe that without emotional interrelation between the therapist and his client and mutual checking out about each one perception of the other at the present, there will be no respect to the unity of the human being.

The psychoanalytical academic ground has conditioned so many students into the stream of blunt interpretation with the arrogance of making what is real as superficial compared to the complexity of the unconscious. I still fight for integral and unified therapies where Gestalt therapy represents a broad work of consciousness and responsibility. A work I wish to associate with the evolution of integrative medicine so that we can listen and intervene to relief the interaction between mind and body needs.