d from time (n) to time (n+1)

The present chapter illustrates and extends our thinking about the dyadic, creative accomplishment of a consensually verbalised understanding within the clinical dyad, which we recognise as d. d operates as a transient emergence, agreed upon by the two parties engaged in “individual” psychotherapy, the therapist and the patient. Its simple articulation is given by the form “What you call X, I call Y” with recognition and reference possible to either or both therapeutic actors that extends forward from a present point in time (n) in the co-creation of here-and-now understanding within clinical contact; and then backward from a later point in time (n+1), with reference to experience undergone both earlier and together.