Articles, Interviews, and Keynotes

In addition to his full-length books, Dr. Picucci also contributes to the professional conversation in the field through articles, keynote addresses at major conferences, interviews, and other writings. He has written seminal articles on trauma, addiction, and Somatic Experiencing®, and is a frequent contributor to The Institute for Authentic Process Healing website and e-zine, Phoenix Recovery News, Professional Counselor: The Magazine for Addiction Professionals, the Foundation for Human Enrichment, and publications abroad.

Summaries of Dr. Picucci’s articles appear below. Where available, links to the full text of the article allow further exploration and reading.

Spontaneous Remission of Collective Insanity
First published in "Expert News" at GoodTherapy.org, June 2010. In this article Dr. Picucci address the present personally and global evolution of humanity at a turning point: Old paradigms and a challenging new awareness are straining to coexist. He offers an optimistic perspective. Read the full article.

Candid Video Interview
May, 2010 of Dr. Picucci's professional and personal evolution in the world of addiction recovery. Watch 30 minute interview.

Focalizing Stage Two Addictions Recovery: The Spiritual Core
First published in “Expert News” at GoodTherapy.org, February, 2010. In this article Dr. Picucci synthesizes 30 years of research and practice exploring the timely paradigm shift and expansion in addiction recovery that is occurring right now. Read the full article.

Why Focalizing Now?
First published in “Expert News” at GoodTherapy.org, November, 2009. In this potent article, Dr. Picucci explores the fundamental and timely paradigm shift in healing that is occurring right now. Read the full article.

Authentic Process: The New Psychotherapy
Published in “Expert News” at GoodTherapy.org, March, 2008. As we enter the dawn of a new millennium, traditional psychotherapy and the therapist’s role appear caught in the sort of crisis. The detached, analytical approach often practiced by psychotherapists since the days of Freud no longer makes people well. In fact, this strict therapist-patient/normal-sick paradigm may actually make them worse, contributing to deeper feelings of alienation and frustration. Read the full article.

Focalizing: An Energy Psychology for the 21st Century
(March, 2008)
Dr. Michael Picucci is interviewed by psychotherapist & health journalist Nicholas Cimorelli. Read the full interview

Article on “Conscious Courage” for Italian psychotherapy journal: Costellazioni Sistemiche - Bollettino della Rete - "Il coraggio" -
Numero 7, giugno 2008 translated into English. Read the full article.

Somatic Experiencing® as Ritual: Unspoken Benefits
First published in Foundation for Human Enrichment Quarterly, October 2006.
In this article, Dr. Picucci explores how Somatic Experiencing also can be viewed and understood as a sacred ritual, which, when “partnered with scientific understanding of energy fields, gives birth to a new context in which to live a fuller and richer life." Read the full article.

Energy Psychology: A Focalizer’s Perspective on Psychotherapy
In September 2005, Angelina Baydala, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of Regina, Canada, interviews Dr. Picucci. Read the full interview.

Ritual as a Resource in Addiction and Trauma Recovery
First published in Cutting Edge: A Publication for Professionals, Fall 2005.
An excellent overview of the ways in which rituals, resources, somatic experiencing, and energy psychology can be used as powerful pathways toward recovery from addiction and trauma. Read the full article.

The New Psychotherapy
First published in the Professional Counselor Magazine
In this article, Dr. Picucci explores a fundamental paradigm shift that is occurring in the field of psychotherapy: Authentic Process Therapy. Read the full article

Grief Recovery
First published in A Time to Grieve e-zine
In this article, Dr. Picucci explores the grief process and how grief, with the right understanding and support and rituals, can be a time of profound personal growth and transformation. Read the full article

Anxiety, Depression, Grief & Other Challenges
First published on The Institute for Authentic Process Healing website
This piece explores the ways in which individuals, through presence, can find an illuminating path from sever anxiety, depression, grief, and other psychological concerns. Read the full article

To My Fellow Healers
First published in Common Boundary Magazine
In this open letter to all colleagues in the field, Dr. Picucci encourages counselors and psychotherapists to provide clients with a clear understand of what they can expect from practitioners or the discipline as a whole. Read the full article

Graceful Guidelines for Sexual Healing
First published in Phoenix Recovery News
Dr. Picucci instructs us how to begin to merge our spiritual and sexual energies to heal the culturally induced “sexual-spiritual split” that haunts relationships and precludes emotional fulfillment. Read the full article

Sexuality & Sacred Sex
First published in The Journal of Sexuality & Spirituality
Dr. Picucci advocates a new perspective for sex and sexuality as a profound exchange of energies that can lead to wholeness and connection. Read the full article

What is Holism?
First published in The Institute for Authentic Process Healing e-zine
In this seminal article, Dr. Picucci provides his perspectives on how individuals can begin to tap into the holism that surrounds us all the time, but that is so often obscured by everyday life. Read the full article

Peter A. Levine Interview
Dr. Picucci conducts an interview with Peter A. Levine, author of the seminal work on Somatic Experiencing®, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma. This interview first appeared on www.theinstitute.org. Read the full interview

Recovery Community Support Programs Keynote Address
Dr. Picucci delivered the keynote address at the July 2002 Recovery Community Support Programs semi-annual gathering. Funded by the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, this event witnessed participation of 250 people from more than 20 grass-roots recovery organizations from around the country. Read the full keynote address

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