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process interview
immune system
Psychospiritual Approaches

definition

process work immune 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 immune condition. The 'meaning' of the immune 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 immune 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 immune system to come into consciousness. As you think of the immune 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:

• self; not self; recognition of self
• defense; protection; protected
• antibodies, antigens, allergic reactions
• auto immune disorders, skin, kidney, joints, self sacrifice
• is there a belief system? is there an old trauma with avoidance? is there a victim?
• what is the person identified with? what is happening to them? dreams, body symptoms, movements, appearance? what it is that they cannot do? what is stopping them? what/who is it that has overloaded the defense mechanism?
• what is the belief system about the condition? is it happening to the person? is s/he aware of their responses in the body? where? how? is there a part of the person that is not responding psychologically? who are the figures?
• what is it the patient or the belief system will not allow? what does it do for the patient?

specific conditions/U><: for example,
AIDS/HIV - what kind of a system would allow not self to enter? what begins to break down internal defenses? to leave the self so exposed? who is isolated from society? who needs to be sexually promiscuous? what is right about AIDS? what is it that a person with AIDS cannot do? what is AIDS asking us to do? what cannot be done?
Reiter's syndrome - how are eyes, bones and joints, and the urethra related? who is irritated?
rheumatoid arthritis - who is stiffness, swelling, disability? what is meaning for the person? who is invading, taking over? who spreads throughout the body? who moves around inflaming? who is the person who is feeling the symptom? how do they perceive it? what is the limit of the persons' ability to identify with this less conscious material?

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
stress-hardy profile


footnotes