Background & Aim:Various psychotherapies, including psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, hypnotherapy, and supportive psychotherapy, have been employed to treat dissociative disorders, particularly depersonalization and derealization. However, many individuals do not respond strongly to standard psychotherapies. The present study aimed to design a coherent protocol to reduce symptoms of depersonalization, and derealization in individuals with Depersonalization-Derealization Disorder.
Methods: From the approach of intervention mapping (IM) in order to regulate and regularize the steps of making the protocol, the sample studied for the initial design of the phenomenology-based physical therapy protocol was physical therapy models-external and internal studies related to physical fitness. and variables related to it and psychological variables related to physicality in depersonalization-derealization disorder, as well as the use of specialists who have a doctorate in psychology and an expert in the field of phenomenological philosophy. The tools used: the suitability, feasibility and validity questionnaire and the content validity ratio were used.
Results: The results showed that the test of suitability,, feasibility, content validity and content validity test which were scored by experts were meaningful.
Conclusion: The results showed that Phenomenology-Based Embodiment Protocol on reducing symptoms in people with depersonalization and derealization disorder has the desired validity.
Keywords: Embodied therapy, phenomenology, depersonalization, derealization
Type of Study:
Original Research |
Subject:
Psychiatry and Psychology Received: 2025/05/31 | Accepted: 2026/06/15