Meeting with the "experience of being"as an initial therapy case

Abstract

The article discusses the phenomenological experience of oneself being as a key event of the therapeutic process. We examine conditions for the possibility of this event and the specifical meaning of case in therapy is proposed. On the example of the therapeutic dialogue in the work with the tale shows how the basic concepts introduced by the author, help to understand thetherapeutic experience.

Keywords

• demanding nature of the whole
• motivating power of the Whole
• co-existential dialogue
• initial psychotherapy