The mystical hue in clinical practice

The mystical hue in clinical practice is defined as the therapist's tendency to formulate understandings & interventions from a known frame of reference. A case study is presented in which a psychiatric patient's subjective experience, imbued with a mystical flavor, was approached from a mystical perspective familiar to both patient & therapist. Dimensions of theoretical commitment, technical style, & similarity to psychic processes are considered, as well as the process of reification, projective fallacy, & developmental issues. Emphasis is placed on the need to formulate experience-near interventions related to the patient's subjective state consistent with the reality that existing well reasoned theory is continually subject to revision. 28 References. Adapted from the source document.