ABSTRACT
In all forms of psychotherapy, there is, however, an everpresent, generally unstated, and usually unconscious adaptive task that is a major factor in every session. There are, of course, many forms of psychotherapy, but it seems fair to say that, as a rule, they are relatively unstructured in respect to the unfolding of each session. Self-processing therapy is an effort to forge a path to the deepest level of unconscious experience and processing – the locale of our most effective intelligence and influence in the emotional realm. The self-processing class, with its somewhat modified frame, is an intermediary form that provides a constructive setting in which effective self-understanding and healing can be developed quite well. The healing goal of self-processing is, then, to enable students in some constructive and insightful fashion, consciously and unconsciously, to modify their emotional dysfunctions – whatever their form.
