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process interview
female reproductive system
psychospiritual approaches
definition
process work female reproductive 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 her relationship to her specific reproductive system condition. The 'meaning' of the female reproductive system condition may be consistent with the person's own associations to her 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 woman's associations with the female reproductive system and her 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 female reproductive system to come into consciousness. As you think of the female reproductive 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:
women, women's problems, women's bonds/bonding
the pelvis, sexuality, genitalia, orgasm
ovulation, fertilization, implantation, gestation
birth, death, pain, labor, delivery, fear
bleeding, menses, premenstrual syndrome, moods
neuro/endocrine regulation
femaleness, femininity, feminism, independence, dependence, expression, value as a woman
what is patient's story? life myth regarding being a woman? relationship to her sexuality? sexual and menstrual history? role models?
surrounding events? meaning of symptoms? meaning of pregnancy? woman's associations to pregnancy?
who has the symptoms? are they happening to her or is she identified with them? what is their meaning? what can't the patient do? what is stopping her? how does she know this?
what happens with increasing the symptom? inhibiting the symptom?
specific conditions: for example,
amenorrhea - who isn't having a period? who is worried? who is pregnant? relationship history?
breech position - what/who is reversed?
contraception - who is avoiding children, pregnancy? reasons? sexual history, meaning? what can the person do? what can't they do?
delayed parturition - who doesn't want to be born? fear? where is the fear of delivery?
dysmenorrhea - who is hurting? meaning?
endometriosis - what does her endometrium represent? what is flowing retrograde? who is the painmaker? what is relationship to sexuality/menses?
fertility - who is resisting, avoiding pregnancy? who doesn't need to be procreating? meaning? family history?
premenstrual syndrome - what is patient's perception of what is happening? is she identified with the depression, malaise, irritability or are these happening to her? what happens when symptoms are exaggerated?
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