ABSTRACT
In the last chapter I explained how a client’s psychological “feeling bad” comes from processes that take place among his self-with-other systems, and that the system with the most power to make him feel bad consistently is his interpersonal process memory, along with the principles it generates for organizing the meanings of his present-day interactions. In this way, a client’s past self-with-other systems come to have far-reaching effects on present systems, and thus on the quality of his relational and emotional life. This is how past is present, according to a performative, relational model of therapy.
