Experiential Psychotherapy

Introduction: This paper compares and analyses Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) through the paradigm of Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling at three levels: intention, process and practice. Objectives: The aim is to identify specific similarities and differences between the two approaches in order for practitioners of both to mutually benefit. Methods: A high-level comparison of SFBT and Symbolic Modelling approaches; a line-byline linguistic analysis of a representative SFBT transcript using models from Symbolic Modelling such as: ‘vectoring’, the Problem-Remedy-Outcome model and Clean Language; an examination of a sample of common Solution-Focus questions for metaphors, presupposition and ‘leading’ syntax, with alternative ‘cleaner’ versions provided. Results: Examples of similarities and differences between the two approaches at the level of intention, process and practice were identified. A selection of SFBT questions were modified to show how they could be cleaner, i.e. ...

The social panorama approach is a psychotherapeutic method based on the view that generalized unconscious spatial imagery forms the cognitive foundation of social life. It appears to be an efficient therapeutic tool for solving a wide range of relational issues and may inspire research on space in social cognition. The leading principle of the social panorama model is "relation equals location", which means that people keep the generalized images of relevant others in steady locations in the mental space around them. The exact location of such an image governs the emotional quality of the relationship. We tested the prediction that moving a social image will change the emotional meaning of the relationship involved (i.e., relation equals location). To this end, we measured how increasing the distance to the image of a beloved alters the emotional experience. Our results show that, when asked to triple the distance to the image of a loved one, the participants exhibited a s...

Chris Iveson is a founder member of the Brief Therapy Practice (7-8 Newbury Street, London EC1A 7HU, UK), Europe's largest solution-focused brief therapy training organisation and one of the few private clinics to offer a pro bono therapy service to public sector referrals. Originally trained as a social worker, he is a Member of the Institute of Family Therapy. His work has included generic statutory social work and various specialist positions in both child and adult services within the NHS.

This paper describes therapeutic strategies for making Contact with severely disturbed children, utilizing  our understanding of developmental ego psychology and psychoanalytic object relationship theory. We believe these strategies of contact will be helpful for the child in developing and expanding their relatedness to the object world as a living whole.

The defi nition of my problem — of memory, fl uency and fl uidity — seemed simple enough when I began this piece. It would be about the existential fact of how these real losses have affected my practice of Focusing, guiding and listening. But as this theme developed, it underwent its own carrying forward. The way I have held this apparently simple issue has become a doorway into the question of my life as a Focusing Therapist. You are invited to come along as the situation — the problem, my confusions, partial clearings, etc. are transformed. I will start with the “fact” of my memory.

In summary, this paper elaborates how Primordial Awareness metabolizes our lived experience and how Primordial Awareness metabolizes our traumatic experience, metabolizes the Structures of our concretized states of mind called ego states and how Primordial Awareness metabolizes the power of our superego state.  The power of luminous Primordial Awareness metabolizes our instinctive drivenness such as sexual instinctiveness and our instinctiveness of aggression and destruction. These concretized instinctive drives can be transformed into Diaphanous Fields of  Creative Luminous Creative Energy, This paper unfolds the process of unfolding from an exoteric framing of  consciousness  experience to an ESOTERIC  Experience  of Consciousness.

For a long time, metaphors were seen as merely a figurative device used in literature. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth for example, Scotland is described as a body that “weeps, it bleeds, each day a new gash”. But we now know that metaphor is much more than this. It is fundamental to everyday language, thought and deed. “The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one thing in terms of another” [1]. Metaphor enables us to process abstract or complex concepts, by thinking in analogies derived from more familiar experiences. In science, for example, metaphor is a means of creating and communicating new theories and discoveries; “Max Planck, a gifted pianist and cellist, conceived quantum theory in part by imagining electron orbits as the vibrating strings of a musical instrument” [2].

In this study, we measured emotional processing and the alliance across 3 phases of therapy (beginning, working, and termination) for 74 clients who each received brief experiential psychotherapy for depression. Using path analysis, we proposed and tested a model of relationships between these 2 processes across phases of therapy and how these processes relate to predict improvement in the domains of depressive and general symptoms, self-esteem, and interpersonal problems after experiential treatment. Both therapy processes significantly increased across phases of therapy. Controlling for both client processes at the beginning of therapy, working phase emotional processing was found to directly and best predict reductions in depressive and general symptoms, and it could directly predict gains in self-esteem. Within working and termination phases of therapy, the alliance significantly contributed to emotional processing and indirectly contributed to outcome. Surprisingly, beginning therapy alliance (measured after Session 1) also directly predicted all outcomes. Furthermore, only clients' beginning therapy process predicted reductions in interpersonal problems. Therefore, although the proposed theory of change was supported, clients' beginning therapy processes may constrain clients' success in experiential treatment and in particular their outcomes in some problem domains related to depression.

The present study is an attempt to demystify the concept of spiritual intelligence (hereafter SI) and its role in education. To undertake the study first an overview of intelligence and its corresponding types and role will be brief. Then SI from theoretical perspective and its relation with some psychological theories as the theory of hierarchy of needs and self-actualization of learners by Maslow (1908-1970), social embedded learning and Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) that scaffolds learning by Vygotsky (1896-1934), and the theory of multiple intelligences by Gardner (1943) will be discussed in detail. Finally its role in education unmasked. The findings have implication in language teaching in particular and education in general.

Reconociendo a la entrevista fenomenológica como un instrumento valioso para la recolección de datos en investigaciones cualitativas orientadas a la comprensión del Mundo Vivido de las personas, se proponen orientaciones generales para encuadrar su realización en el contexto de investigaciones en psicología, psicoterapia y desarrollo humano. También se señalan dos dimensiones implicadas en las interacciones: 1) la relacional y 2) la técnica. Y se describen aspectos importantes de tomar en cuenta en cada una de ellas al realizar las entrevistas.

This paper seeks to consolidate developments in Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) over the past decade. I conclude that we have already seen the arrival of a kind of new form of SFBT, focused firmly on descriptions and even simpler in form that the original SFBT developed by Steve de Shazer, lnsoo Kim Berg and colleagues. This new form is still definitely SFBT in terms of the priorities and fo. cus of the original progenitors, but it has also left behind many elements which were inherited during the initial development from the previous family therapy and brief therapy traditions. The name 'SFBT 2.0' is proposed, to help prevent confusion with earlier forms while maintaining that this is not a new therapy but an important evolution of existing practice.

This luminous text is a dramatic invocation to experience our human openness to the experiential knowing of our ever-unfolding experience of the infinity of Being. The infinity of Pure Being can be experienced within the phenomena of our own human beingness and within the phenomenological events of the Being of our world.

The focus of Dzogchen practice is to experientially understand the nature of our awareness through awareness itself. To be nonconceptually aware of the nature of our awareness is rig pa or open presence.The root or the source of all phenomena is Presence. This word presence is often used by 14th century Longechenpa as well the contemporary Namkai Norbu and many dzogchen masters as the signifier of ground of being, the ground as presence. Contemporary Christian philosophers influenced by existential phenomenology, such as Paul Tillich and Karl Rahner, describe the ground of being and ground of presence as Divinity. In Dzogchen philosophy descriptors are added such as the divine presence, luminous presence, radiant presence, pure presence, immaculate presence.

Widowhood is one of the stressful life events in a life course. Adjusting may be difficult for older adults experiencing a decrease in social networks. This study aims to explore widowhood in old age-the experience of loneliness and subjective well-being. The ...

Introduction: This paper compares and analyses Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) through the paradigm of Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling at three levels: intention, process and practice. Objectives: The aim is to identify specific similarities and differences between the two approaches in order for practitioners of both to mutually benefit. Methods: A high-level comparison of SFBT and Symbolic Modelling approaches; a line-byline linguistic analysis of a representative SFBT transcript using models from Symbolic Modelling such as: ‘vectoring’, the Problem-Remedy-Outcome model and Clean Language; an examination of a sample of common Solution-Focus questions for metaphors, presupposition and ‘leading’ syntax, with alternative ‘cleaner’ versions provided. Results: Examples of similarities and differences between the two approaches at the level of intention, process and practice were identified. A selection of SFBT questions were modified to show how they could be cleaner, i.e. ...

Introduction: This paper outlines the scientific background behind the mBraining approach (mBIT multiple brain integration techniques) regarding the recent research in neuroscience revealing the relationship between the cerebral, enteric and cardiac neural systems and its potential as an optimization tool. In addition, a number of case studies have been detailed, to confirm the effectiveness of this approach and a number of extensive references have been included for further study. Moreover, parallels and common principles with experiential therapeutic approaches are being discussed. Objectives: This paper aims to promote the mBIT approach as a complementary diagnosis and optimization tool with applications in coaching, therapy, counseling and overall personal optimization. Methods: mBIT approach methodology and literature review. Results: The five case studies included in this paper clearly indicate the effectiveness of the mBIT approach in managing and resolving issues such as: oc...

Introduction: This paper outlines the basic concepts of mental space representations, its primary concepts and the connection to psychology and psychotherapy. Also included are the descriptions of three mental space based psychotherapies and their applications. A comprehensive list of references containing case-studies and researches is also provided for the three mental space based psychotherapies, for further study and research. Objectives: This paper aims at revealing the connection between the well-researched concepts of mental space and visual-spatial representations and their use and applicability in the psychotherapy and overall psychology field. Methods: Literature review. Results: The consideration of the importance of mental representations and their influence on the clients’ social world, and emotional problems and the further encouragement of developing tools and approaches that can work directly with this abstract constructs. Conclusions: This paper anticipates a new pa...

Introduction: This paper compares and analyses Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) through the paradigm of Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling at three levels: intention, process and practice. Objectives: The aim is to identify specific similarities and differences between the two approaches in order for practitioners of both to mutually benefit. Methods: A high-level comparison of SFBT and Symbolic Modelling approaches; a line-byline linguistic analysis of a representative SFBT transcript using models from Symbolic Modelling such as: ‘vectoring’, the Problem-Remedy-Outcome model and Clean Language; an examination of a sample of common Solution-Focus questions for metaphors, presupposition and ‘leading’ syntax, with alternative ‘cleaner’ versions provided. Results: Examples of similarities and differences between the two approaches at the level of intention, process and practice were identified. A selection of SFBT questions were modified to show how they could be cleaner, i.e. ...

Introduction: This paper outlines the scientific background behind the mBraining approach (mBIT multiple brain integration techniques) regarding the recent research in neuroscience revealing the relationship between the cerebral, enteric and cardiac neural systems and its potential as an optimization tool. In addition, a number of case studies have been detailed, to confirm the effectiveness of this approach and a number of extensive references have been included for further study. Moreover, parallels and common principles with experiential therapeutic approaches are being discussed. Objectives: This paper aims to promote the mBIT approach as a complementary diagnosis and optimization tool with applications in coaching, therapy, counseling and overall personal optimization. Methods: mBIT approach methodology and literature review. Results: The five case studies included in this paper clearly indicate the effectiveness of the mBIT approach in managing and resolving issues such as: oc...

Introduction: This paper outlines the basic concepts of mental space representations, its primary concepts and the connection to psychology and psychotherapy. Also included are the descriptions of three mental space based psychotherapies and their applications. A comprehensive list of references containing case-studies and researches is also provided for the three mental space based psychotherapies, for further study and research. Objectives: This paper aims at revealing the connection between the well-researched concepts of mental space and visual-spatial representations and their use and applicability in the psychotherapy and overall psychology field. Methods: Literature review. Results: The consideration of the importance of mental representations and their influence on the clients’ social world, and emotional problems and the further encouragement of developing tools and approaches that can work directly with this abstract constructs. Conclusions: This paper anticipates a new pa...

Introduction: This paper outlines the scientific background behind the mBraining approach (mBIT multiple brain integration techniques) regarding the recent research in neuroscience revealing the relationship between the cerebral, enteric and cardiac neural systems and its potential as an optimization tool. In addition, a number of case studies have been detailed, to confirm the effectiveness of this approach and a number of extensive references have been included for further study. Moreover, parallels and common principles with experiential therapeutic approaches are being discussed. Objectives: This paper aims to promote the mBIT approach as a complementary diagnosis and optimization tool with applications in coaching, therapy, counseling and overall personal optimization. Methods: mBIT approach methodology and literature review. Results: The five case studies included in this paper clearly indicate the effectiveness of the mBIT approach in managing and resolving issues such as: oc...

At the end of the twentieth century and beginning of the twenty-first century, the new current in terms of studying the shapes of human intelligence, risen from the transpersonal psychology area, brought to the world the third type of intelligence that tends to become acknowledged (after its antecessors: cognitive intelligence and emotional intelligence): „spiritual intelligence”. Spiritual intelligence, as defined by researchers, is strongly connected to the fulfillment of a human being’s profound need – to feel that everything has a meaning, a purpose. It is the intelligence that makes us whole and renders our integrity. It is the intelligence of the soul, the profound self-intelligence. It is the intelligence that makes us ask ourselves fundamental, existential questions and overcome the boundaries we were used to. The psychologists that discovered this type of intelligence say that its development guarantees the psychic health. The main challenges, which occurred once we accepte...

Reconociendo a la entrevista fenomenológica como un instrumento valioso para la recolección de datos en investigaciones cualitativas orientadas a la comprensión del Mundo Vivido de las personas, se proponen orientaciones generales para encuadrar su realización en el contexto de investigaciones en psicología, psicoterapia y desarrollo humano. También se señalan dos dimensiones implicadas en las interacciones: 1) la relacional y 2) la técnica. Y se describen aspectos importantes de tomar en cuenta en cada una de ellas al realizar las entrevistas.

Introduction: This paper outlines the scientific background behind the mBraining approach (mBIT-multiple brain integration techniques) regarding the recent research in neuroscience revealing the relationship between the cerebral, enteric and cardiac neural systems and its potential as an optimization tool. In addition, a number of case studies have been detailed, to confirm the effectiveness of this approach and a number of extensive references have been included for further study. Moreover, parallels and common principles with experiential therapeutic approaches are being discussed. Objectives: This paper aims to promote the mBIT approach as a complementary diagnosis and optimization tool with applications in coaching, therapy, counseling and overall personal optimization. Methods: mBIT approach methodology and literature review. Results: The five case studies included in this paper clearly indicate the effectiveness of the mBIT approach in managing and resolving issues such as: oc...

At the end of the twentieth century and beginning of the twenty-first century, the new current in terms of studying the shapes of human intelligence, risen from the transpersonal psychology area, brought to the world the third type of intelligence that tends to become acknowledged (after its antecessors: cognitive intelligence and emotional intelligence): „spiritual intelligence”. Spiritual intelligence, as defined by researchers, is strongly connected to the fulfillment of a human being’s profound need – to feel that everything has a meaning, a purpose. It is the intelligence that makes us whole and renders our integrity. It is the intelligence of the soul, the profound self-intelligence. It is the intelligence that makes us ask ourselves fundamental, existential questions and overcome the boundaries we were used to. The psychologists that discovered this type of intelligence say that its development guarantees the psychic health. The main challenges, which occurred once we accepte...

Introduction: This paper compares and analyses Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) through the paradigm of Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling at three levels: intention, process and practice. Objectives: The aim is to identify specific similarities and differences between the two approaches in order for practitioners of both to mutually benefit. Methods: A high-level comparison of SFBT and Symbolic Modelling approaches; a line-byline linguistic analysis of a representative SFBT transcript using models from Symbolic Modelling such as: ‘vectoring’, the Problem-Remedy-Outcome model and Clean Language; an examination of a sample of common Solution-Focus questions for metaphors, presupposition and ‘leading’ syntax, with alternative ‘cleaner’ versions provided. Results: Examples of similarities and differences between the two approaches at the level of intention, process and practice were identified. A selection of SFBT questions were modified to show how they could be cleaner, i.e. ...

Focusing-oriented therapy shows a great sensitivity towards a client’s felt sense and the need to be with that ‘something ’ in a special way. Yet where the therapeutic relationship fits in, so important in other therapies, is far less clear. Sometimes it seems as if focusing is merely a subjective process that could be done just as well alone. I disagree. Using Gendlin’s concept of ‘interaffecting first ’ I am developing a focusing-oriented practice where the therapeutic relationship has a pivotal place. I work with ‘addicts ’ and ‘substance misusers’, people who seem to absent themselves in so many ways. A strong ‘being-with’, an intersubjective felt sense, seems just the right way to address their ‘being-without’. This session builds on a presentation made in Awaji in 2009. Alan Tidmarsh is a focusing-oriented therapist in Norwich, UK, working with substance abusers. He is studying for a PhD on focusing-oriented therapy and ‘addiction’. 1.

Introduction: This paper outlines the scientific background behind the mBraining approach (mBIT-multiple brain integration techniques) regarding the recent research in neuroscience revealing the relationship between the cerebral, enteric and cardiac neural systems and its potential as an optimization tool. In addition, a number of case studies have been detailed, to confirm the effectiveness of this approach and a number of extensive references have been included for further study. Moreover, parallels and common principles with experiential therapeutic approaches are being discussed. Objectives: This paper aims to promote the mBIT approach as a complementary diagnosis and optimization tool with applications in coaching, therapy, counseling and overall personal optimization. Methods: mBIT approach methodology and literature review. Results: The five case studies included in this paper clearly indicate the effectiveness of the mBIT approach in managing and resolving issues such as: oc...

In this chapter I consider Unconditional Positive Regard (UPR) first as it was described by Carl R. Rogers and then examine how some subsequent theorists and writers have studied and elaborated it. I then place my emphasis on activities especially pertinent to the momentary enactment of Unconditional Positive Regard, because as it is one of many possible modes of regarding, we need to know how to enter this particular mode. In the end, I hope to have helped answer questions a student therapist might have such as ‘What can I do to develop my capacity to have Unconditional Positive Regard for clients?’ THEORY OF CARL R. ROGERS Unconditional Positive Regard is a central concept in the theories of Carl R. Rogers, both for psychotherapy and for interpersonal relations. A universal need for positive regard by others appears at about the same time a person begins to experience awareness of self (Rogers, 1959). In therapy, UPR is a quality of the therapist’s experience toward the client (p....

Introduction: This paper outlines the scientific background behind the mBraining approach (mBIT multiple brain integration techniques) regarding the recent research in neuroscience revealing the relationship between the cerebral, enteric and cardiac neural systems and its potential as an optimization tool. In addition, a number of case studies have been detailed, to confirm the effectiveness of this approach and a number of extensive references have been included for further study. Moreover, parallels and common principles with experiential therapeutic approaches are being discussed. Objectives: This paper aims to promote the mBIT approach as a complementary diagnosis and optimization tool with applications in coaching, therapy, counseling and overall personal optimization. Methods: mBIT approach methodology and literature review. Results: The five case studies included in this paper clearly indicate the effectiveness of the mBIT approach in managing and resolving issues such as: oc...

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Aim: The aim of this research is to study how female psychotherapists and counselling psychologists experience the embodied intersubjective aspect of the encounter with their clients and how the awareness of this intersubjective embodiment impacts on them and their therapeutic practice. This project is relevant to the field of psychotherapy and counselling psychology as this dimension is the ground on which therapy happens. A better understanding of this aspect of the encounter give us a better understanding of the therapeutic process. Methodology / Design: A hermeneutic phenomenological methodology was selected for this study. Finlay’s and Evans’ (2009) relational centred approach was chosen as a method. Unstructured interviews were conducted with seven female psychotherapists from different therapeutic modalities; they all had an experience of the phenomenon researched and an interest in the topic. Two methods of analysis were used: narrative and thematic. Findings: Therapists use...

This paper aims at presenting a study on bodily intelligence, a relatively new term that joins the most established ones such as cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence or spiritual intelligence. The theoretical basis is supported by Gardner's theory of multiple intelligence as well as more recent neurological and psychological studies on the human body. A form of knowledge is highlighted which, although it is the first to appear in human ontogenesis, has not been much studied and promoted and which opposes rational or iconic knowledge. The present study aims at finding a tool for measuring bodily intelligence and at investigating the dynamics of this intelligence in relation to participating in a unifying personal development program through dance and movement. In this sense we went through two major stages and objectives at the same time: 1-conducting a unifying personal development program through dance and 2-conducting a quantitative statistical study to capture the effects of the program on bodily intelligence and its correlation with self-satisfaction related to the physical body. The quantitative (experimental) research was applied with the participation of an experimental group composed of 33 people and a control group composed of 36 people. The results were obtained by pre-test-post-test procedure. The initial testing was held at the beginning of the program and retesting-one day after its completion. The experiment consisted of a UPDDM program lasting 20 hours over three days. The results obtained from the statistical data processing show significant differences between the control group and the experimental group in the bodily intelligence variable confirming the research hypothesis, according to which a UPDDM dance therapy program is a valid method of increasing bodily intelligence.

Language as Process This chapter will highlight an approach to language that can take account of a process of articulation that unfolds contents that cannot be conceived as representative referents. The kind of practice needed for this process highlights an interactive dimension involved in articulation. It enables the formulation of background patterns which usually function in what is said. Drawing on A. Damasio's 'somatic markers' as manifesting learned structures in a bodily way, and on G. Gendlin's 'felt sense' as a feeling of complex content, I want to demonstrate how cultural as well as biographical 'contexts' that function in the meaning of what we say, can themselves become more articulate, thus opening up creative new realms of meaning that can enhance (interpersonal as well as transcultural) understanding. In daily conversation, as well as in scientific and creative work, there is a risk involved, which consists in letting go of one's point while trying to formulate it, even though the formulation is grammatically correct. Further more, by drawing on language games that are easily understandable, what we say in understandable terms can sometimes destroy the very significance and subtlety of what we actually mean. Thomas Nagel captures this point in regard to meaningful questions, when he describes how: We can feel a question apart from its verbal expression, and the difficulty is to pose it without turning it into something superficial, or inviting answers that may seem adequate to its verbal form but that don't really meet the problem beneath the surface. (Nagel 1986, 56)

Meaninglessness is one of the biggest threats of our era. Meaninglessness is not only one of the possible symptoms of depression; meaninglessness as such is a complex experience which can be identified at a micro-dimensional felt sensed level, as a meaning gap at a meso-dimensional  narrative level, and as groundlessness at a macro-dimensional existential level. Person-centered therapies have explicitly focused on the micro- and meso-dimension of meaning; existential therapies have emphasized the macro-dimensions by helping their clients to face the existential givens such as meaninglessness and meaning. In this article we explore how experiential-existential psychotherapy could help clients in dealing with meaninglessness by addressing this experience with micro-, meso-, and macro-dimensional interventions. A case study reveals how all meaning-dimensions are important, but not at any moment. The client concludes the therapy with discovering what is most essential to him in life. From this experience he finds the courage to engage with life at the fullest, whether it is ultimately meaningful or not.

Experiential-existential therapy is an emerging approach within the broader spectrum of humanistic and existential psychotherapies. Rooted in person-centered and experiential psychotherapy, it emphasizes the experiential and interactional process aspects of existence. Experiential-existential therapy differs from contemporary person-centered and experiential therapies because it adopts an existential theoretical framework to deepen the therapist’s understanding of the client’s life process. As a consequence the therapist is more able to resonate and empathize with the client’s existential concerns. It not only increases the therapist’s capacity to be with the client’s deepest issues, the experiential and interpersonal focus make it also possible to engage with the client’s life process in the here-and-now situation. This new model reclaims the original existential-phenomenological foundations of person-centered and focusing-oriented therapy and puts experiential meaning-processes at the heart of the therapeutic work. Theoretically it seeks a new balance between process and content aspects and between not-knowing and research. In this chapter we introduce experiential-existential psychotherapy, its unique position in the field of existential and experiential therapies, and its future challenges.

For much of my personal and professional life I have had an enduring interest in the distinction between mind and awareness. As my education unfolded over these many years, I have been happy to recognize that this distinction between mind and awareness is of serious consideration in continental phenomenology, in forms of psychoanalytic understanding such as the object relations work of Donald Winnicott, as well as in many forms of the experiential psychotherapies such as Gestalt, experiential focusing, in Ericksonian hypnosis, structural family therapy, archetypal psychotherapy, existential psychotherapy, existential psychoanalysis to name a few. When I began to extend my interest based on continental phenomenology into the eastern wisdom traditions, I found the same distinction within the Hindu Tantric tradition of Kashmir Shavism. Later in my life I found the same distinction within the Tibetan non-dual Nyingma tradition of Dzogchen. In my study of the Qi Gong tradition, I had the good fortune of being able to study for a number of years with Dr. Yan Xin who is a most remarkable healer and who has this same distinction of mind and awareness in his form of Daoist Qi Gong. From an historical view point, this distinction of mind and awareness was central in gnostic philosophy and gnostic theology. In contemporary Jungian archetypal psychology there is a similar distinction between the knowing of mind of ordinary life world of lived experience and the knowing of the archetypal dimension of lived experience, as well as the knowing of the primordial awareness dimension of pure potentiality. I have also had this interest in and through the phenomena of my own knowingness, the knowing of self, the knowing of others and of knowing of the encompassing nature of Existential Being. I have had for as long as I can remember, the sense of the explicit experience of my mind as explicit thoughts, and explicit feelings and explicit sensations and explicit imaginative imagery, and at the same time a subtle sense of tacit or implicate or implicit sense of intuitive knowing. In this way I have always felt I had two ways of knowing.

Donald Winnicott's radical existential psychoanalytic understanding of transitional awareness and transitional relatedness is an amazing and little used doorway for today's psychotherapist and psychoanalyst. In today's cognitive clinical culture we have become cognitions tampering with cognitions. Life as cognition. Existential Ontology Winnicott's creative understanding of our capacity for transitional awareness and transitional relatedness intertwines both our personal psychology and our innermost experience of our own existential ontology. Transitional knowingness intertwines both our mind and our primordial awareness field. Our field of awareness knows the field of Being since awareness is the field of Being. Transitional awareness intertwines both our mind and our psyche. Donald Winnicott's phenomenological understanding of the self radicalizes our sense of self from being a representational picture or cognitive affective schema or synthesis of disparate psychological part's to a fluid sense of self as a direct experiential felt sense of ongoing continuity of Being. Our knowingness though the medium of awareness, opens for us the direct knowing of the experience of Being. The experience of Being is for us our sense of natural spirituality. Our liminal transitional awareness field opens us into the immediate ongoing intimate experience of Being. This experience of Being is of Being within our very own self and of Being within our very own relational life-world. Ordinary Personhood We, as a most ordinary person, can experience the unfolding movement of the experiencing of Being within our own self as our self, and simultaneously, the unfolding experiencing of our own being as the being-ness of Being which is the Being of the world. As we experience the Being .

A person's own inner most awareness and the movements within their awareness field bring forth their direct personal experience of their cosmological archetypal field of awareness. This spontaneous event is given to us within the archetypal realm of awareness. The archetypal dimension manifests itself as us, and reveals itself to us through our experience of its self-manifestation.

Embodiment or embodied awareness is a way of understanding the body. The body is not simply the external body, the body is the lived body. Both the 10 th century Kashmir philosopher Abhinavagupta and the contemporary French phenomenologist Merleau Ponty have a similar view of the lived body, or better 'lived' embodiment. A person may have a most beautiful external objective body but minimally lived in. Embodiment allows us to understand and conceive of the body as a way of living, experiencing and of perceiving through the medium of our embodiment. The body is the medium of the field. A person perceives not simply through eyes and ears alone, but through the whole body. Our body is an instrument of perception. Our body is an instrument of knowingness. The embodiment of awareness is the lived embodying of primordial awareness that liberates our being in the world. The embodiment of awakened awareness pulsates in resonance with and within Being itself.

Mind Alone For many years psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy was singularly centered on the unconscious mind and conscious mind. There was only mind and the mind could become aware of its own self and its own representational realm. The self itself was representational and the emphasis on the mind was in the light of analytic thinking and analytic observation. There was an emphasis on objectification of mental phenomena and subjectivity itself. Knowing was knowledge by association, by reflection and mediation by linguistic signifiers. Knowing was neither non-conceptual nor pre-reflective, nor was there a place for direct experiential knowingness. Knowing was associated as mind alone and singular mind functions such as thinking, feeling, sensation, memory and imagination. Transitional Space as Space of Awareness With the presentation of the work of Donald Winnicott there was a shift in the psychoanalytic understanding of knowingness. A similar change in psychoanalytic thinking about knowing was also taking place in the Jungian and archetypal analytic schools. In psychotherapy Winnicott emphasizes a focus on the suspension of mind and in the process of suspension of mind, awareness was freed to focus within awareness, free to focus itself on itself. In the suspension of mind (a Winnicottian form of the phenomenological reduction,) the patient relocates themselves. The patient relocates from being located in mind alone or even located in a particular function of mind alone such as: feeling function or thinking function or sensation function or memory function; the patient enters or relocates themselves into the intermediate area of experience. This intermediate area of experience or this in-between space of experience is also described as the transitional area of experience and relatedness. Sometime this place is also described as the place of potential space. The sense of self shifts from being located in the mind or mental function of the mind into the more embodied sense of spacious awareness or as the place of potential space. Winnicott would described this knowing

One Knower: Different Modes of Knowing In all philosophical and psychological traditions knowing has many different meanings. In Tibetan Buddhism there is nondual Dzogchen and in Hinduism there is nondual Kashmir Shaivism. In both these nondual traditions there is profound understanding that there is one knower with two different modes of knowing. My Mind Knowing You and Things One mode of our knowing is the conventional subject object knowing which is the mind knowing as the perceiver and the perceived. This is our ordinary knowing of mind, my mind knowing you and things. This is my mind knowing of all the various forms of otherness. This is my mind knowing of singular aspects of phenomena and my mind knowing, by discrimination, the differences within phenomena. This is my mind knowing of the reality of objects, and the actuality of events and situations. This is my mind knowing the reality of persons and sentient beings as well as non-sentient beings and things. This is my mind's natural mode of dualistic knowingness. My Knowing as Direct Perception As humans knowing we both have and are this wonderful other mode of knowing. In Dzogchen this is the great knowing of awareness and through awareness, and this knowing described as direct perception is often called gnosis, or jnana, or ye she. Kashmir Shaivism names this dimension of knowing of this vast field of awareness/consciousness vimarsa. This vast

Being within awareness as awareness and being with another who is within awareness is a most powerful skillful means to bring forth awareness within one's self and within each other. Two awarenesses are better than one, just as self regulation can be enhanced by co self regulation on the bodily dimension. Self-illumination is a co-emergent process between and within companions, compassionate companions. The lucidity within one's own awareness, as one's own awareness can experience the lucidity within the other's awareness as lucidity. It is true, awareness awakens awareness both in one's self and in the other. This is the secret of the tantra. The luminous energy within one's own body can resonate to the luminous energy in the other's body, deepening the mutual embodiment of light. Light is awareness and awareness is light. The attunement to awareness within one's own body can bring forth the attunement of awareness within the body of the other. The self arising of the awareness field in one's self resonates to the self arising of awareness within the other's body. The self arising of the energy or the chi or the shakti can bring forth the self arising within each other and can bring forth the sustaining of the energy field within each other. In essence, humanness is the manifestation of light, and the manifestation of primordial luminous energy, and the openness of the great space of compassion.

Psicoterapia con una mujer adulta joven que intentó suicidarse: estudio de caso, resultados preliminares. Psychotherapy with a young woman who attempted suicide: a case study, preliminary results. Se describen los resultados encontrados en las primeras cinco sesiones de psicoterapia.