In silence between therapist and client we see how transactions (non silence) can drag the client’s psychological energy from the unconscious into the conscious This diagram shows of how Freud conceived of the conscious and unconscious. In the human psyche there is a little bit of conscious at the top but most of it is …
Silence and the unconscious
Peter Ehrenhaus is a professor of communication and writes very interesting things about silence and symbolic expression. He says that silence can be an object or an encounter. With an encounter meaning can arise in silence between the individual and the object experienced as silent. He is not a psychologist and presents his ideas in …
Listening to the unconscious in self
In working with enactments the therapist must seek to become aware of their unconscious and dissociated parts of self.
Duplex transaction
Despite the reason, we humans can’t keep a secret. We will say it out. The key is for the listener to stop listening and start watching. As a therapist it is certainly better to do this regularly with your clients.
Fotographia – What is beauty?
Or the observer will instinctually fill in the missing parts as we will all naturally complete the gestalt in our own minds and it will be completed in a positive fashion.