The Freudian encouraging her patient to experience her transference is encouraging insight through process work. The Jungian who uses active imagination to meet dream figures on paper is using a process paradigm. The Gestalt therapist requiring her client to act out a dream is dramatizing an experience which has been secondary. The neo-Reichian working through resistances to aggression in body work is touching the process work paradigm if these resistances are allowed to express themselves and are not simply ‘broken through.’ The process paradigm is not new; it plays a crucial role in all psychotherapies, and is accepted as a basic concept everywhere in psychology. The process paradigm may even be considered a central pattern in our earliest sciences. Alchemy is based upon cooking what is incomplete and Taoism encourages one to discover the patterns behind reality and to folloiv their unfolding with appreciation and awareness. My background in process work is based upon the finalistic philosophy applied by Jung to psychological situations. He looked for the meaning of things; he was not interested in pathologizing them, but attempted to take them as facts for themselves. Since he was himself a physician he recognized the usefulness of the medicial model, but extended it by concentrating on the fantasy world produced by the client.*26\227\8*
