The LogiMind Handbook of Psychotherapies is a free, open-access systematic reference that maps and compares 106 therapeutic approaches — from mainstream psychotherapies to complementary and contemplative practices — on a single comparative grid, so that heterogeneous methods can be read side by side. It is written for students, educators, practitioners and curious readers who want to understand, at a glance, how the major schools differ: origins, methods, settings and evidence base.
Every entry follows the same structured grid (the "PI" sections): genesis, bibliography, therapeutic domain, ten founding principles, ten core techniques, a twenty-step protocol, professional recognition, expected outcomes, an explicit evaluation of the evidence, and per-country sections. Part I gathers ten thematic volumes (brief cognitive-behavioral; targeted brief; insight & hypnosis; relaxation & body; hypnosis & meditation; arts therapies; complementary & sensory; contemplative & spiritual paths; breathwork; and depth approaches). Part II develops twenty core therapeutic exercises along a fixed fifteen-chapter protocol. The corpus is 106 entries: 97 universal therapies plus 9 regional schools of the German-speaking area.
A defining feature is intellectual honesty about the evidence gradient. Each approach is explicitly classified — from well-established methods (CBT, DBT, ACT, MBSR, EMDR, prolonged exposure, progressive relaxation), through complementary approaches with real but modest, often non-specific effects, to frankly unvalidated practices and to spiritual paths whose aims lie outside scientific verification. Documented risks — essential-oil toxicity, adverse effects of intensive meditation, teacher/guru abuse, breathwork accidents, sectarian drift, loss of chance — are foregrounded rather than omitted, so that readers can weigh benefits and safety together.
All references are real (BibTeX in every entry; no invented DOIs), and the work is freely citable under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licence with a permanent DOI. It is published in several languages, with more than twenty planned, so that students and educators worldwide — including in emerging countries — can discover psychotherapies in their own language. Website: https://logimind.org.
