ABSTRACT

This chapter explores the basic structure of human development and adjustment to the world that both makes conversation possible and imposes necessary constraints upon it. It analyses the explication of the schema and intrasubjectivity and intersubjectivity. The schema displays a pattern of learning that emerges as the ongoing effect of therapists role as I-The-Mediator comes to terms with the awakening of the potentials of their own particular genome through the influence of the external environment. The schema shows that as therapists develop clients move away from unconsciousness towards consciousness. The idea of the unconscious mind and its effect on our lives was first crystallised into a concrete form by Sigmund Freud. The aim of psychotherapy is to help clients to become aware of unconscious motives and beliefs that affect their patterns of behaviour, by bringing them into consciousness in order to understand them better.