Therapeutic conditions of Change.
Due to
repression, affect is strangulated in the unconscious. The discharge of this
material is called the “emotional catharsis.”
It is to be thought of as energy or
charge attached to it. Psychopathology then comes from this emotion-charged repressed material that remains
active in the personality, and overt
behavioral systems result from it.
The knowledge that is purely intellectual,
abstract, and hypothetical and not affect-laden
will always stay that way. Everyone hates their Mother and Father, but in adult life,
this stays as intellectual knowledge not “experientially knowing” it is thereby keeping it out of the conscious mind.
To acquire therapeutic insight is to relieve the emotion of hating. To remember
your personal experience of the feeling will be to experience them in a
therapeutic context. Clients must learn how derivatives of early childhood
feelings based on traumas have been woven
into the fabric of their whole life.
Resistance to
change comes from the unconscious as no matter how much the conscious mind and
the pain it is in is driving the person to change, to change is to undo the repression that protects them
from painful unconscious memories, and
therefore they will unconsciously resist treatment.
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