ABSTRACT
The philosophy of ‘I’ and ‘me’ may contribute to the therapeutic understanding of a patient’s relations and complement the practice of several kinds of therapy. This claim presupposes that a patient in psychotherapy occupies positions in various relations. A patient occupies positions in relations with people, and these are the relations with which psychotherapy is conventionally concerned. However, it is often erroneously assumed that either these are the only relations, or what applies for these relations also applies for relations more generally. I shall argue here that a patient occupies positions in relations that extend beyond the scope of relations between people. Moreover, a patient expresses these relations, and the positions s/he occupies in these relations, in his/her account or narrative during the psychotherapeutic encounter.
