Abstract
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.
Highlights
The basic theoretical principals of the process theory in client-centered psychotherapy - its stages, the purpose, the basic properties - are discussed in the article
Even the ultimate goal of psychotherapy can be formulated in terms of process - it is a move of client “from a static, fixed, unfeeling, impersonal feelings of person functioning” toward “fluid, changing, acceptant experiencing of differentiated personal functioning” (Rogers, 1961, p. 66)
Strategies of Therapy We suggest that there are two possible therapy strategies: 1) actualization of balance mechanism amplification of primal “stuck” experiences; 2) amplification of weakened organismic tendency
Summary
The basic theoretical principals of the process theory in client-centered psychotherapy - its stages, the purpose, the basic properties - are discussed in the article. The client went according to the following vector of emotional experience: anger per a new coach → feeling of a bruised ego → low inherent value → feeling of unnecessariness → emotional stress connected to the feeling that in order to be together with somebody it is necessary to be an important person of importance, a person of interest → fear of losing power, governance → emotional stress of inability to be yourself etc. Emotional balancing mechanism actualization, connected to primary “blocking” emotional experience potentiation, is not possible in practice She is not able to accept the feelings of love and warmth, addressed to a man (such organismic tendency is weakened); “and men are not the ones intended, and they don’t need me”. In order to determine the place of a client in process continuum it is necessary to “collect data about the quality of his or her emotional experiences and their expression” (Rogers, 1961). The essential is loaded with a connotation of goodness, depth and trueness in contrast with existential, which is more superficial and phenomenal
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