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c. Which offers can you fall back on?

The analysis of schemata or depth dynamics serves on the one hand to be able to recognize them - in order to not constantly show the same reflexive (originally "childish") reactions that are completely inappropriate for certain situations.

On the other hand, in exactly this recognition the "interpreter"-position is rehearsed and a meaningful relationship to the world is developed.

In this way it becomes possible to turn to the world and people in a different and new way:

more careful, more mindful, more "reasonable"; according to the "truth of the situation".

For this is what a detachment from the schemata-reference comes down to:

He, she and the other is to be recognized and understood in his and her peculiarities.

Which is the most original idea of truth; the basis of any further definition of truth, which makes truth a property of sentences and thus of signs and sign-references.

But who needs truth? But what does truth help when, for example, depression comes? Or the (anger) impulse that seems to be unregulable? Or the argument with an employee?

Psychoanalysis, MAP work or DIA/GRAMMATICS, as understood here, offers no symptom control or psychological patches for psychological wounds. Instead, it helps to unfold a different basic reference to the world - just that of the meaning-reference.

In this "works" life differently:

The new boss may give you powerful impulses of rejection or even anger. But you quickly realize that these are the legacy of childhood and the childish schemata-reference to the world. And so you let them go, just as they came.

In return, you will try to grasp the new boss in his many facets and idiosyncrasies; relate them to your own idiosyncrasies - and thus determine possibilities such as limits of togetherness. And through all of this, you'll always feel like you're standing in an ocean of relations and options that you can't even begin to exploit. Which is why, even in the most complex exploration of a delicate counterpart, the aesthetics of signs and meaning that lie in this infinite continuity of signs as well as in the breakthroughs of that continuity are maintained. Which is what makes it bearable when the next wave of schemata and impulses comes over you: there is no reason to dive into them; to be seduced by their emotional power - because it is nothing against the "beauty of the sign-continuum".

This is truth living, interpreter living, living from the meaning-reference!

Not a "perfect" existence or anything like that, but a way of self-creation, self-management and control of our childhood heritage, which is also a heritage of our pre-human biological history. So - a way of reason!

This offer, the offer of this path, makes the therapy or DIA/GRAMMATICS outlined here - or whatever name we want to give this practice. It invites to a "jump", which

...therapy is when it aims to transcend the emotional "tunnels" associated with the schemata-reference;

... coaching is when it helps to unfold and think problem solutions that already belong to a meaning-reference;

....supervision is when it fundamentally exposes the schemata-references of, say, a group and replaces them with meaning-references;

....consultation is when it is clarified what is going on in a structural context, how schemata- and meaning-references have become hopelessly intertwined and how this intertwining can be broken.

The core of the practice is always the (diagrammatic) analysis and the understanding of the schemata, to which much is added:

....the meticulous narration of life situations, which makes the schemata tangible for the client and makes them tangible in their (absurd) behavioral and social consequences;

....the simulation of scenes in which the schemata as figures become actors that a "meaningful ego" newly "situates";

... the analysis of the schemata a client is currently producing in the "here and now" of the hour;

... the rehearsal of skills that - against schematic reflexes - force meaning-driven action;

....the semiotic analysis of the language presented, in which it can be shown whether the counterpart with his schemata-reference "brackets" all speech or even places this reference where a simple designated word would suffice - which is then a reference to the fact that here a delusion is pressing forward.

With all this, this practice is always also and especially a "venue" of forensic psychotherapy, in which the struggle with a powerful schemata-reference is THE central concern and topic.

Here, too, one thing must form the framework, which is also an unavoidable necessity in all other work situations:

The offer of a therapeutic relationship, in which the analyst literally embodies the meaning-reference and the interpreter position; yes, IS this position!

Only in this way will the analyst open up a "field" in which that very different "saturating" encountering and "being" between people becomes possible, which exclusively gives away the (aesthetic) continuum of words and possibilities.