Our aim is to demonstrate some ways in which the process of experiencing can become structure-bound, so that we can no longer access its intricacy and work with it therapeutically. In order to move beyond these stopped places in ourselves, in our clients, and in the interactional field between us, we think that it is possible to identify patterns of structure-boundness and work with them directly as ‘present experience’. Addressing these stuck patterns can release life and energy that has previously been trapped in familiar yet often destructive ways of being.
Keywords: structure-bound, patterns of structure-boundness
Christiane Geiser & Judy Moore In: Greg Madison (ed.), Theory and Practice of Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy. Beyond the Talking Cure. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, p. 130-145