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process interview
eye/ear/nose/throat system
psychospiritual approaches
definition
process work eye/ear/nose/throat system interview:
development of associations
see preliminaries: process work: interview
The most important function of the therapeutic interview is to develop an understanding and experience of the person's pattern and process; that is, to find the individual's precise meaning of their relationship to their specific EENT condition. The 'meaning' of the EENT condition may be consistent with the person's own associations with their condition, which represent the primary consciousness. As one becomes aware of what the person is identified with, then the secondary, more unconscious signals will become apparent. When we observe the persons' associations with their condition and follow carefully what happens in the moment, the condition will then begin to appear as part of the whole process with which the person is involved. By amplifying the person's associations with the condition and their individual symptoms, the primary process can be supported to completion, and new insight may be facilitated. No "psychospiritual meaning" is given for specific conditions, as the meaning of symbols/symptoms is individual and does not have a universal interpretation.
The following are some of the 'associations' or concepts which came to mind by allowing possible ideas, thoughts, visions, and/or feelings of eyes/ears/nose/throat to come into consciousness. As you think of these, what do you know about it, what are my associations? Try other channels, for instance feeling and seeing, etc. It is most helpful to examine your own and the client's associations at the time of the interview. These examples represent the reviewers' associations at a moment in time:
vision, hearing, swallowing, speaking, tasting, sensing
eyes - soul, inner eye, seeing, staring, hallucinations, observing, not seeing, blindness, blurred vision, tension, third eye, optic chiasma, pituitary center, iris, fluid, cranial nerves, accommodation, movement, expression, relationship, contact
ears - inner voice, voice, music to my ears, auditory hallucinations, ringing, altered states, balance, dizziness, vestibular apparatus, cochlea, labyrinths, nerves, bone, echoes, sound, resonance, OM, hearing, tuning out, deafness, drainage, pain, pressure
nose - breathing, moisture/dryness, temperature, mucous, polyps, smelling, sensing, nostrils, epistaxis, boggyness, congestion
throat - larynx, voice, speech, not speaking, suppressed personal truths, twisted tongue, palate, tonsils, immune system, sore, red, swollen, swallowing, digestion, regurgitation, airway
does the person use vision or hearing as a habitual mode?
who is 'sensing'? who is not 'sensing'? what happens by 'sensing' (seeing, hearing, etc.) more? what if they experienced this more completely? what figure is stopping it?
what happens by 'sensing' less?
is the person having the problem, or is it happening to them? how do they experience it? vision, hearing? what is it they cannot do? see? hear?
specific conditions: for example,
cataracts - who slowly develops not seeing? who doesn't see? what is too painful to be seen?
epistaxis - who bleeds? who clots? who needs to stop, lie down, pay attention?
glaucoma - where is the pressure? how does the person experience it? who is the pressure maker? is it acute? chronic?
sinusitis - who is inflamed? congested? is it chronic? does it happen to the person? when?
strabismus - who can't see straight ahead?
see:
process paradigm
process work: basic principles
process work: glossary
process work: observation
process work: channel examples
process work: interventions
process work: working with signals
process work: working on the edge
process work: interview
footnotes