Assimilation of problematic experiences by clients in psychotherapy.

William B. Stiles, Robert Elliott, Susan P. Llewelyn, Jenny Firth‐Cozens, Frank R. Margison, David A. Shapiro, Gillian E. Hardy

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Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research Psychological Treatments and Disorders

Abstract

DAVID A. SHAPIRO AND GILLIAN HARDYMRC/ESRC Social and Applied Psychology UnitUniversity of SheffieldIn successful psychotherapy,problematic experiences (threatening orpainful thoughts, feelings, memories,etc.) are gradually assimilated intoschemata that are introduced by thetherapist or developed in the therapist-client interaction by modification of oldschemata. As it is assimilated, aproblematic experience passes throughpredictable stages. The client movesfrom being oblivious, to experiencingthe content as acutely painful, then asless distressing, merely puzzling, thenunderstood, and finally as confidentlymastered.

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