Therapeutic Process

Stage 1
1. Client talks about external events
  1. Doesn't own feelings
    1. Detached
  2. Resistant to change
    1. Defensive
Stage 2
1. Client talks more freely about non-self topics
  1. If feelings are described they're still not owned
    1. Behaviour described rather than inner feelings
  2. Intellectualisation (not truly engaging yet)
2. Becomes less rigid
Stage 3
1. Client talks about reactions to events
  1. Talks about past feelings
    1. Begins to recognise contradictions in experience
  2. Limited amount of self-description
Stage 4
1. Clients describes feelings & personal experiences
  1. Starts to experience present emotions
    1. But still fears & distrusts emotions
  2. Presents inner life
Stage 5
1. Client talks about present feelings
  1. Ownership of feelings increases
  2. Better at differentiating between feelings & meanings
    1. Wants to explore problems in a personal way by processing feelings not reasoning
Stage 6
1. Client talks in present
  1. Presents vivid representations of past
  2. Physiological loosening
  3. Sense of inner referent
    1. Gut reaction/words not formed/images without clear shape/unlabelled sensed emotions and energies/implicit connections not yet born in symbols
2. Openly expresses feelings
Stage 7
1. Client talks fluently in present tense
  1. Basic trust in own inner processes
  2. Feelings experienced with immediacy and richness of detail
2. Increasingly recognises and describes the form of the sensed inner referent
  1. Series of felt senses connects different aspects of an issue

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