In a narrow frame of time – “sees what comes next”;
Over a longer period of time: increased capacity for resilience/self-righting /mutual expanding awareness/implicit and explicit knowing/flexibility in previously rigidly held beliefs/ alternative strategies for regulation of motivational pursuits. Does the patient occupy a place in the therapist´s mind in which a sense of her as a total being, her physical self, her problems and her abilities, her past, present, and future, and some sense of the analyst as viewed by her, all come together in some sort of a flexible gestalt? Does the therapist sense that she occupies a place in the patient´s mind in which she is a source of support, helping the patient to carry through in problematic situations?