ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a re-vision of PCT taking into account some key concepts of Michel Foucault’s discourse theory and Eugene Gendlin’s process model. This is in order to show how PCT might avoid the danger of giving in to the dominant neoliberal, neopositivist paradigm of our time and remain still radical. It is not enough to just describe all person-centred concepts in exclusively organismic terms, but to revision PCT completely, i.e. to understand and re-define it as a living (i.e. processual, relational, holistic, systemic) organism/body. PCT could, then, never identify itself with only one of its partial discourses/actualizations/occurrences (i.e. classical, orthodox, integrative, experiential, existential …) and, eventually, become structure-bound. Instead, it would remain close to its actualizing tendency, open to all of its intricate implicit possibilities; it would remain processual, vital, changeable, a discursivity always creating, holding and containing anew the field of person-centredness, and always transforming the often conservative and controlling discursive practice of psychotherapy (a technology of self) to a real liberating, psychotherapeutic heterotopia (a care for the self).
