Assimilation Analysis of Process-Experiential Psychotherapy: A Comparison of Two Cases

The assimilation model proposes a sequence of cognitive/affective levels through which a problematic experience is assimilated into a schema during successful psychotherapy. This research applied the assimilation model to two cases of process-experiential psychotherapy—one that was successful and one that was unsuccessful, according to conventional outcome criteria. Qualitative analysis of the successful client's transcripts suggested that assimilation occurred in at least three problematic experiences. Analysis of three themes in the nominally unsuccessful therapy suggested that the client made progress but that assimilation was blocked at two levels of the assimilation sequence. Das Assimilationsmodell setzt eine Sequenz kognitiver/affektiver Stufen voraus, uber die eine problematische Erfahrung im Verlauf einer erfolgreichen Pychotherapie in ein Schema assimiliert wird. In der vorliegenden Studie wird das Assimilationsmodell auf zwei Falle aus einer prozess-erfahrungsorientierten Psychotherapie angewan...