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A MOMENT* IN METAPHOR: the unconscious formation of conscious information and the instant of therapeutic intervention |
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Every moment of our lives is of infinite worth in that it has the potential for movement . Every moment in psychotherapy has a special importance because it is consciously for that reason. My purpose here is to expand the moment it takes for a client to process and communicate new information, and the moment it takes for the therapist to respond. To make these moments long enough to consider what happens in the conscious and unconscious mind of client and therapist. And to consider how that may inform us as therapists at the moment of our next intervention -- the intervention that will become the next input into the client's system and have the potential for influencing anything from the further confusion of the system to its total transformation.
I shall make the point that the only information we have about the client at any given moment is symbolic information. I shall ask you to consider what happens when we respond to that information in the moment using clean language, and what happens when we do not. I shall relate these considerations to my articles in Rapport about addictions and problem patterns,1 and develop the analysis I began in the most recent of those about 'how clean language works'.
This article is about psychotherapy but the information here may be applied to any related endeavour -- counselling, coaching, interviewing, teaching, managing, supervising, consulting: for 'therapist' read 'facilitator'.2 |
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19/07/2001 |
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Rapport, Issue 51, Spring 2001 |
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Philip Harland |
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philipharland@blueyonder.co.uk |
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40 Palace Road
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