ABSTRACT
If we accept that psychotherapy is about life, and that life is essentially mysterious and beyond the scope of absolute knowledge, it follows that we need to come to the therapeutic relationship in an open and questioning manner. As therapists, we need to foster an attitude of wonder about human existence. We should be willing to explore together with our clients the particular conditions of living and the specific responses to these conditions experienced by them. We should place as few obstacles in the way of this exploration as we can. We should make ourselves available and let ourselves be stretched beyond the limits of our own preoccupations and considerations. We should train ourselves to become more and more flexible so as to extend ourselves beyond the scope of our usual worldview We should, in other words, bracket our prejudice about the world and come to the therapeutic relationship willing to be drawn into the world of our client and actively relate to it in order to learn to make sense of it. This is a collaborative venture.
