TITLE:
The Fish Floating Attention
AUTHORS:
Giuliana Galli Carminati, Jacques Demongeot, Federico Carminati
KEYWORDS:
Pet-Therapy, Zootherapy, Fish, Fish-Tank, Jungian Psychoanalysis, Cellular Automaton, Chaotic Attractors
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.11 No.11,
November
13,
2020
ABSTRACT: In this paper, we discuss the possibility to consider fish for pet
therapy. After describing the known effects of a fish tank on patient’s stress
levels, we present the psychoanalytic implications of fish-therapy. We then
describe some mythological representations of the fish in history and the
concept illness and healing from the point of view of chaotic attractors and
cellular automaton. We illustrate the practical applications of fish
pet-therapy. We conclude with some considerations on how this technique could
be inserted in the psychoanalytic practice.