<REALITY> IN PSYCHOTHERAPY

TODA Masako

doi:10.11341/kokoro.4.66

This is an attempt to reveal an aspect of psychotherapeutic activity with regard to the concept of “reality”, through considerations of a clinical case in a “classroom for adjustment training”. The “classroom” is characterized by a rigid frame of educational system and an ambiguous therapeutic structure. Therapists there are often forced to have psychotherapeutic sessions without confirming the “facts” of clients (home environments, medical diagnoses, etc.). Faced these conditions, psychotherapeutic structures depend upon the existence of a therapist as a whole which is necessarily transferred into a session. Psychotherapy is then properly compared to mirroring mirrors in invisible frames. Therapist and client become “Imagined Doubles” one another. Hence, all the cases can be understood as therapists' own including their “Delusions” invoked by clients. “Facts” in ordinary sense can play little role in the sessions. The “mirror reflections” are “Realities” occurring in the borderland between inside and outside of psyche. While the reflected images are real, they reflect the basis of human existence common with the ordinary world to which clients should adapt in the end.

<REALITY> IN PSYCHOTHERAPY

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