ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how the boundaries between the Johari categories are permeable, so that information can move from one compartment to another. Johari's window invites people to categorise the contents of mind - thoughts, memories, facts, knowledge, personality, emotions, opinions, beliefs, motivations, intentions, and imaginings. The Johari window has an 'unknown' quadrant - deep, dark, unconscious territory through which psychoanalysts pick their cautious way by Freudian torchlight. Enfranchising the Inner Physician through complex and open-ended processes as self-disclosure, self-awareness and self-acceptance is not an all-or- nothing affair. It is a matter of degree, and stretching the boundaries of one's habitual consulting repertoire involves a measure of risk-taking. The doctor with a properly functioning Inner Physician is able and willing to allow his or her own past experiences to resonate with the emotional timbre of some of the strands in the patient's narrative, and with non-physical components of the patient's predicament.
