ABSTRACT

The present chapter describes a process of discovery: 1) beginning in the thick particulars of individual experience; and 2) thickening further through the generation of more contributory particulars useful as contents or resources; towards 3) a generalised intuition applicable within the clinical practice of psychotherapy. In going forward, we are guided by the sentiment of Descartes’s Method, in which he expresses that:

This tract is put forth merely as a history, or if you will, as a tale, in which, amid some examples worthy of imitation, there will be found, perhaps, as many more which it were advisable not to follow. I hope it will prove useful to some without being hurtful to any, and that my openness will find some favour with all. (1637, p. 5)