Carrying Forward Structure-Bound Processes in Work with Clients Suffering from Chronic Pain
Abstract: When working with clients whose inner experiencing process seems to go round in never-ending circles or is blocked, the inner resonance of the therapists is at risk of doing the same. As their experiential responses stagnate or become stereotyped too, the intersubjective field, to which both contribute, is no longer an environment, which carries the client’s process forward.
This article offers some ideas about a relational understanding of process-blocking patterns and their possible dissolving using examples from clinical work with clients suffering from chronic pain.These clients, normally labelled as “difficult”, benefit not only from careful verbal work at the edge of understanding, but particularly from including the bodily presence of both, therapist and client.
Keywords: movement, carrying forward, experiencing, structure-bound, body, chronic pain
Christiane Geiser, Switzerland
in: Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies PCEP Journal Vol. 9, June 2010 No. 2, p. 95-106.