How it Works
The Patient is...
...suffering from distress following a breakup, argument, interpersonal tragedy or loss of some kind, and would benefit from having their story heard and evaluated in terms of the mistreatment of the individual, lessons they can learn about their own behaviour and triggers, and how to treat the continued anguish and proceed in the most beneficial way.
The Goals are...
...to monitor and combat a list of mental health metrics including:
Emotional Clarity
Self-Blame Reduction
Cognitive Reappraisal Shift
Perceived Validation
Rumination Reduction
The treatment is...
...uncomplicated and entirely transparent. It is an efficient way to tell the patient's story and give them a voice whilst receiving valuable information from members of the public who are able to ask and tell things that a traditional practitioner is not.
The methodology is...
As devised and published by Ryan Minti in his psychoanalytical memoir In the Wake of Her in 2025, the framework involves the following steps:
1. The client (the practicing therapist) helps their patient to write an anonymised account of the troubling event in question and submit to SARJ.
2. SARJ professionals write questions for the unpaid volunteer panel to complete as they read the account.
3. SARJ moderators supervise a focus group discussion of the account.
4. The questionnaire and discussion and summary report are given back to the client so as to determine if it should be forwarded at least in part to the patient.
The Package
The basic package for 1 patient story is 300GBP. This amounts to approximately 1 day of work. The client can expect a written report and full audio recording of the focus group with in 4 weeks of finalising the requirements. View the framework below.
SARJ and ongoing research
SARJ continues to develop this burgeoning therapy type and is also looking at completing a study that measures the effects of loss on the daily thoughts of those left behind.