The body and the consulting room's materiality as a path for developing intersubjective psychophysical space

IF 0.4 Q4 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL

JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOTHERAPY Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI:10.1080/0075417X.2022.2052935

T. Pollak

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The paper explores the therapeutic importance of some structural aspects of the body and the consulting room for integrating primal psychophysical spatiality with children suffering from severe developmental deficiency (mainly autism, but not exclusively). The dominant dimension of those children available for the therapist is their non-communicative corporal organisation and behavioural involvement with physical aspects of the consulting room. The paper introduces the idea of ‘an envelope with openings’, seeing it as an innate multidimensional psychophysical schema. Such a structure fits with the child and the therapist’s body, and characterises the physical aspects of the consulting room. This structural resemblance has the potential of functioning as an intuitive pre-reflective common source for therapeutic communication. It might support the therapist’s somatic openness, crystallise into a countertransference-based corporal communication, functioning as a ‘constitutive intervention’, and thus give organised existence to the primal layer of the child’s experience. This type of intervention invites the therapist to use his body and/or some physical aspect of the room to structure fragmented psychophysical elements into this spatial-temporal embodied schema. Clinical case material from two therapies with children with ASD, and one adult therapy, illustrate this potential, gradually revealing the consulting room as a goldmine inhabited by subjective objects, ready for intersubjective meaning.

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身体和咨询室的物质性作为发展主体间心理物理空间的路径

摘要本文探讨了身体某些结构方面的治疗重要性，以及咨询室对患有严重发育缺陷（主要是自闭症，但不完全是自闭症）的儿童整合原始心理物理空间的重要性。这些儿童可供治疗师使用的主要方面是他们的非沟通性身体组织和行为参与咨询室的身体方面。本文介绍了“有开口的信封”的概念，将其视为一种天生的多维心理物理图式。这种结构适合孩子和治疗师的身体，并体现了诊室的物理方面。这种结构上的相似性有可能成为治疗沟通的直观、预反射的共同来源。它可能支持治疗师的身体开放性，具体化为基于反移情的身体交流，起到“构成性干预”的作用，从而使孩子体验的原始层有组织地存在。这种类型的干预邀请治疗师使用他的身体和/或房间的某些物理方面，将碎片化的心理物理元素构建成这种时空具体化的图式。来自两种ASD儿童治疗和一种成人治疗的临床案例材料说明了这一潜力，逐渐揭示了诊室是一座由主观对象居住的金矿，为主体间意义做好了准备。

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JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOTHERAPY PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL-

CiteScore

0.70

自引率

50.00%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Child Psychotherapy is the official journal of the Association of Child Psychotherapists, first published in 1963. It is an essential publication for all those with an interest in the theory and practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and work with infants, children, adolescents and their parents where there are emotional and psychological problems. The journal also deals with the applications of such theory and practice in other settings or fields The Journal is concerned with a wide spectrum of emotional and behavioural disorders. These range from the more severe conditions of autism, anorexia, depression and the traumas of emotional, physical and sexual abuse to problems such as bed wetting and soiling, eating difficulties and sleep disturbance.