Psychotherapy
Roles: therapist, client, intervention, session, therapeutic-relationship, symptom, insight, resistance
The practice of treating psychological distress through structured conversation and relational techniques. As a source domain, psychotherapy foregrounds the distinction between surface presentation and underlying process, the paradox that change often requires acceptance rather than force, and the role of the therapeutic relationship as the medium of healing. Structurally productive because it separates the presenting problem from the systemic pattern, encodes the idea that awareness itself is an intervention, and offers rich vocabulary for describing resistance, transference, and the gap between insight and behavioral change.
As Source Frame (3)
Applied To This Frame (36)
- physics → Ball in a Pool
- puzzles-and-games → Chessboard Self
- containers → Containment
- war → Defense Mechanisms
- folklore → Demons on the Boat
- narrative → Double Listening
- seafaring → Dropping the Anchor
- narrative → Externalizing the Problem
- puzzles-and-games → Finger Trap
- embodied-experience → Hands as Thoughts
- containers → Holding Space
- family-and-kinship → Inner Child
- natural-phenomena → Leaves on a Stream
- broadcasting → Mind as a Radio
- optics-and-reflection → Mirroring
- transportation → Passengers on the Bus
- physics → Pendulation
- theater-and-performance → Presenting Problem
- materials → Psychological Flexibility
- geology → Quicksand
- narrative → Re-authoring
- architecture-and-building → Scaffolding in Therapy
- light-and-darkness → Shadow Work
- weather → Sky and Weather
- tool-use → Struggle Switch
- narrative → The Absent but Implicit
- accounting → The Body Keeps the Score
- war → Therapeutic Alliance
- chemistry → Titration
- spatial-motion → Transference
- games-and-play → Tug of War with a Monster
- narrative → Unique Outcomes
- social-dynamics → Unwelcome Party Guest
- navigation → Values Compass
- architecture-and-building → Window of Tolerance
- manual-labor → Working Through