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process interview
urinary system
psychospiritual approaches
definition
process work urinary 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 urinary condition. The 'meaning' of the urinary system 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 urinary system 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 the urinary system to come into consciousness. As you think of the urinary system, ask yourself what do I 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:
fluids; releasing; disposal; waste
genitalia; sexual; forbidden; sensitive; pleasure
retaining, retention, release, relief
pissed off, control, lost control, incontinence
issues of time, pressure, permission, response, nature calling
what is it they cannot do? what does not doing this enable them to do?
what is stopping them? do they know?
what are sexuality associations? does this condition relate?
specific conditions: for example,
bladder cancer - what are symptoms? bleeding? exposure? relationship to immune system?
cystitis - who has dysuria? meaning? relation to sexuality?
enuresis - who won't wake up? who is wetting, getting wet? what is function in family? what is relationship to training and control?
renal failure - who wants to die? who is not filtering, urinating, working?
urethritis - who needs to hurt or micturate a lot? relation to sexuality?
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