ABSTRACT
After having looked together at the video and discussed broadly what happened, each participant studied the transcript alone and wrote down his own impressions against the background of his own basic assumptions, so that both the similarities and the differences became visible.
The first author pointed especially to the dialogue and the squiggle interaction. Drawings make it possible to observe things together and alongside each other. He discusses the question of whether basic assumptions are not in fact the same as unconscious fantasies.
One of the group members considers the problem of how her basic assumptions shape her form and manner of hearing, seeing, receiving and understanding the ‘material’. She demonstrates this in her understanding of the interview.
A second group member elaborates the question of how the complex mixture of her implicit and explicit basic assumptions leads to her own psychoanalytic way of working. She shows how she understands the progress in the session with the help of play and creativity.
The third colleague shows her listening and perspective. She is interested, too, in the interviewer’s basic assumptions, pointing to the fact that development only proceeds by an integration of split-off parts of the patient.
