Open AccessTypes of Processes in the Client-Centered Therapy
Author(s) -
Alexander Kocharian,
Н. В. Баринова
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
psihologìčne konsulʹtuvannâ ì psihoterapìâ/psihologìčne konsulʹtuvannâ i psihoterapìâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2410-9037
pISSN - 2410-1249
DOI - 10.26565/2410-1249-2020-13-03
Subject(s) - psychology , blocking (statistics) , anger , feeling , social psychology , learned helplessness , psychic , psychotherapist , psychoanalysis , cognitive psychology , computer science , medicine , computer network , alternative medicine , pathology
The basic theoretical principals of the process theory in client-centered psychotherapy - its stages, the purpose, the basic properties - are discussed in the article. It has been concluded that the process represented by C. Rogers hardly describes the psychotherapy itself; it reflects the process of personal growth. The model of the process motion as liberation from “blocking” emotional experiences is presented. The “block” structure and the model of a “capillary blocked with plaques” as well as clinical examples of “organismic flow” liberation are described. These ‘blocking’ emotions have specific qualities: 1) they are “stuck together” – there are no stand-alone offence, anger, helplessness etc.; they form an integral conglomerate; 2) they are resistant to an influence; 3) they do not disappear completely – they only abate and hide, forming a potential emotionality, which can become actual on the most insignificant occasion; 4) they are somatized,; 5) they are not flowing. “Blocking” emotions have a complex structure: they are based on unconscious primary “blocking” emotional experience (for example, the feeling of second-ratedness) and “secondary” emotional experiences are overlaying on it. Only when the primary components are removed from the structure of “blocking” emotional experience, the conglomerate of “blocking” feelings falls apart into separate emotions, that are ready to move. If any part of psychic becomes “dead”, for example, love and sexuality, then the quality “sort of” emerges in the functionality of an individual. Two clinical examples of work with “blocking” experiences are presented.