PogeEi4t NTCf-Ji Gr d DA I L.Y f MV Friday, Agust1i4, 1970 Fday, August 1 1970 * THE MICHI AN DAILY ,. £it 0 r ++.... i *Oi experiential awsareness For Direct Classified Ad Service, Phone 761 12 Noon Deadline Monday through Friday, 10:00 to 3:00 / Rahe B. Corlis and Peter Rabe, PSYCHOTHERAPY F R O M THE CENTER: A HUMANISTIC VIEW OF CHANGE AND OF GROWTH, International Textbook Co., $6.00 By JIM McGLOIN This is not a textbook; but neither is it written - - as the authors warn -- for the casual reader: "It is for the reader who is psychotherapeutically orient- ed, who wants to participate in psychological change arid in personal growth . . ." If you are such a reader, and if you can put aside for a time what you know about the reinforcement therapies and about the tradi- tional psychoanalytic methods, which emphasize cognition; if you can give your full attention,. without resistance, to this de- scription of a psychotherapeutic approach that focuses on im- mediate experiencing, and if you are able to reach beyond the verbal expression, applying what is said to your own immediate interpersonal experience, you will again and again be sur- prised and delighted by the clarity and precision of the authors' observation and under- standing -and you will very likely find that your own "ex- periential awareness' is in- The approach described in Psychotherapy From the Center bears soie resemblance to ex- istential psychiatry and to the b 0 0 k S encounter less as an instance of proper technique and more as a creative moment which meets its own needs. For that reason we will have to stress the state of the therapist more than his professional bag of tricks or his memory for proper techniques, Except for the first chapter, which presents in 17 pages of remarkably clear and simple language the conceptual frame- work of this therapy, the book is written almost entirely in the context of the psychotherapu- tic process. In Chapters 2 e 7, we are taken step by step in systematic but lively fashion through sections dealing criti- callyuwith the patient's history, diagnosis, prognosis, therapeutic plans and goals, termination and outcomes. Along the way, in Chapters 3 and 4, considerable attention is given to various aspects of the growing thera- peutic encounter and to the use of techniques. Six specific tech- niques that "can help make contact with a closed patient" or that "can be useful in helping the patient move ahead" are described in detail and illustrat- ed with case material. The book also contains fresh and helpful sections on the purpose and use of homework to carry the pa- tient's therapeutic efforts into his natural environment, on the problem of authority and on the meaning and purpose of authen- ticity in the therapist-patient relationship, on listening and hearing, on the therapeutic re- sponse (dealing especially with confrontation, reflection and interpretation), on anxiety, on resistances and how to deal with them, on physically touch- ing the patient, etc. The psychotherapeutic orien- tation and technique which Dr. Corlis and Dr. Rabe describe is grounded in the "ongoing, im- mediate experience of both pa- tient and therapist as they in- teract;". our concern," they emphasiz e,"is with experi- ential events and with ways of knowing them.," The thrapeutic encounter is not approached with thep Irearranged focus of any theory- only after the en- counter "has been allowed to occur w ith a minimum of judg- ment" is theory applied to what has been given. The authors state that It is therapeutically impor- tant to note that the use of a category is a form of distor- tion Particularly at early moments of the therapeutic encounter any organizational attempt is a contamination of the encounter. Any subjective experience of what is known here-and-now is acceptable datuh, and it is dealt with in terms of its per- sonal meanings for the person with the experience. For exam- ple, "a religious experience can be handled on the level on which it occurs without neces- sary postulations about the ex- istence of God." As the authors note, moreover, "Any topic can be relevant in the psychothera- peutic situation. Its relevance, however, is only discovered by its effect on the contact be- tween patient and therapist" The emphasis is on the what and how-as well as on the now - of the therapeutic en- counter; why is generally shun- ned as "the unfortunate ques- tion which instantly propels us beyond the experiential event and into speculation." Consider then, for example, how a resis- tance would be handled (a re- sistance is here regarded, more or less, as whatever the patient does to maintain the status quo and to prevent himself from ex- periencing with immediacy the therapeutic encounter as it occurs): The patient talks and then suddenly he falters and stops. Don't ask why he has stopped, a question which likely as not evokes a variety of spurious rationalizations and guesses. Instead: "What stops you?" "It's like I've come up against a wall." The question has concen- trated the patient's attention on the experienced event. The responsive a n s w e r reflects what the patient actually feels. He feels stopped by a wall which is his experience of the resistance. Now stay with the resistance by staying with the patient's experience of the wall. "What kind of a wall?" The authors state that "Behind every resistance-lies unfinished business which the resistance encapsules and keeps from the patient's view." In the example above, the therapist involves the patient in an active exploration of his resistance in an effort to dissolve it by discovering and coming to grips with the un- finished business and achieving closure. A principal therapeutic aim of the contactful patient-thera- pist interchange is ing; it is simply a matter of practical necessity. In our cultural context the neurotic is invariably the 'individual who pays for his particular form of balance with a top- heavy emphasis on intellec- tual agility and a reduced per- missiveness for the motion of feelings. As their brains bulge, their guts shrivel. The less they feel, the less burdened is their fanciful dance with the meaningless~ The delights of such freedom have their lim- its. If all this worked well, there would be nobody in the therapist's office. From the practical point of view the first sine qua non of psychotherapy is to help the patient feel again. Paradoxi- cally, this includes the patient who complains of feeling too much. , . . his case is not a question of feeling too much but of overracting. His com- tive, and effectful upon the world around us. We do not say that center is good and that periphery is bad. We say that to get stuck in either is arrhythmic and therefore not healthy. When we are well we know our rhythm and move with it. Then we are the rhythm, we are center and periphery and the motion from one to the other is like the living breath, The a u t h o r s note, moreover, that Our cultural emphasis on the periphery is well-nigh exclu- sive, heavy-handed, and often severe. We are doers. . . . It is a topic of this book to detail the emptying, the exhausting fate of exclusive peripheral living. In a superb discussion of three modes of therapeutic response, Dr. Corlis and Dr. Rabe describe interpretation and reflection, with emphasis on "their limited usefulness . . . in regard to the one imperative requirement of the therapeutic encounter: ex- panding experiental awareness." p. 33) They then describe "con- frontation" as their offer toward this major requirement. Confrontation is an ap- proach and a fluid achieve- ment of the very state which it tries to reach awareness through the act of confronting each other . .. confrontation is achieved when the therapist reacts from his center. It it fulfilled when the patient re- acts from his center too. The view from the center sees a world which is unaltered by wish, by dream, by projection. Rephrased in the positive, the view from the center sees the world of here-and-now. . . In confrontation the act is between I and Thou. Buber said this for us: "All real living is meeting." In that sense confrontation becomes a microcosm of life, and to the extent that this 'onfrontive living is achieved, to that extent has the patient transcended the special 'ir- enmstances of the therapeutic hour. (p. 31) Throughout the book the rare beauty and vitality of the lan- guage make it a joy to read, and quite unlike the impersonal quality of much writing today - here the voice of the authors can be heard on each page -- clear, direct, unconventional and alive; it is plain to the reader that these men have lived in- timately with their psycho- therapetutic experience and that they are here telling us in a per- sonal and immediate way what they have learned and how they learned it. I found myself read- ing the book with a sense of en- thusiasm and discovery, and (this is rare for me) I had read it twice and taken copious notes before I was willing to put it aside. Furthermore, what I have learned from Psychotherapy From The Center has continual- ly helped me to be more imme- diately present and in touch in my daily encounters with others. As the authors state, "this entire book deals with ways of moving from impersonal talk to personal touch and en- counter." Today's Writers. Jim McGloin is a graduate student in the Department of Social Work. An Assistant Pro- fessor of English at the Univer- sity, John Rodenbeck teaches courses in American literature, Neal Bruss, who worked for Time, Inc. this summer, is a doctoral student in English at the University. The'illustration on this page is a Rasamandala depicting the dance of the Indian god Krish- na with his worshippers. An outstanding exhibit of Indian miniature paintings concerned with Krishna is presently being shown at the University Art Museum. 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ND7O0ECG -- - -fr '65 VALIANT convertible, V-8, auto- matic, exc. running, needs paint touch up and 2 tires. Book price NO0 $825. best offer. 429-4091. 1N69 H LC FOU of or it or at I O Gestalt Therapy of F. S. Perls. Dr. Corlis and Dr. Rabe, how- ever, seldom refer to the histori- cal antecedents of their thera- peutic orientation, except for an occasional reference to Husserl, Buber, or Carl Rogers. They ex- plain themselves as follows: Our infrequent use of cross- matching the views or conclu- sions of others has been done with intent. We want'to in- troduce the existential ap- proach of our method-exis- tentially. In the concrete, that means that we want to pre- sent the psychotherapeutic encounter as it occurs and as it is experienced. This purpose is not served by meeting a novel event in the context of what is already known. In- stead, we will describe an ap- proach into the novel situa- tion of each encounter with- out t h e contamination of viewing the event in terms of its sameness to something else. The manner in w h i c h this book is written has this immediacy of experience as its aim. How to confront the uniqueness of the psycho- therapeutic event is the topic of this book. We regard the e v e n t of psychotherapeutic To put the patient in touch with areas in himself whose existence he must learn to know and accept if he wants psychological harmony. We are trying to increase the range of his behavioral choice . . . to restore his own self- command in place of a mal- function that has started to operate independently. The focus of attention in this effort includes not only the content of what the p a t i e n t says but his style as well-his "body language." The goals of this therapy tend to be rather more general than the ones the patient has con- templated; for example, in ad- dition to greater range of choice:, increased experiential awareness, a more fully avail- able, integrated personality, and a willingness to risk facing the newness of life as it comes;" also, "to help dissolve the con- ditioned fixity of the patient's character so that the] . . . can find the 'satisfactions available in the present;" to help the pa- tient to again avail himself of his own strength; and to revive "desensitized areas" in order to help the patient feel again. The following paragraphs will suggest the important place that feelings have in this approach to psychotherapy: We regard the intellectual capacity as a scanning device. It scans what we fee. If we feel nothing, then there is nothing to scan, and any in- tellectual application is use- less ... From the point of view of the therapist, the working em- phasis on feeling something through is not a paean to extol emotion over intellect, or feeling o v e r understand-_ plaint is real but his diagnosis is false. . . he does not feel differentially. All is one murk, whether there is too much feeling or too little. . . the emotional; experience of pos- sessing a feeling must again become permissible. The as- sault of an emotion (a threat for the anesthetized patient, a defeat for the one who "feels too much") must again become an expression of his own strength which comes out of him instead of remain- ing a disowned strength which then assaults him. The revival of impulse expres- sion in this therapy . . . goes through careful stages: (1) to let oneself have the feeling; (2) to be able to express it; (3) not being compelled to express it; (4) and to let go of it. The book describes in detail how these steps can be taken. The "center" referred to in the title of the book is one of two organismic states desig- nated by the authors as "the state of operating at the peri- phery and the state of being at center." These concepts and the experience to which they refer are made quite clear in defini- tion and in use throughout the book, but perhaps the following paragraphs will distinguish them most concisely: [Being at center] . . . is the state of experiencing directly and without purpose. It is the most open, receptive state of being which we know. At cen- ter there is that kind of quiet existence which k n o w s calm and soft peace, And then . . . we move to the periphery o n c e again where our focus and our acts become purposeful, manipula- STATE STREET MANOR 111 S. State Street 2, 3, or 4 man large apta air-conditioned tremendous closets loads of parking laundry facilities 761-3567 1-864-3852 DELUXE FURNISHED 4-man. 2 bdrm., close to campus, parking. 8 and 12 mo. lease. 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