RURI FUJIMAKI

People with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) live in the world before image that lack symbolic function. Therefore, the aim of psychotherapy for ASD is to build up the subject and the framework of psychotherapy. In this study, compared with the psychology of image symbolized by texture, the psychotherapy for clients living in the world before image was considered as material, where the frame, occurrences, and therapeutic relations were all mixed. During play-therapy with a child with ASD, the level of the therapist’s consciousness often lowers into an undifferentiated state. This study refers to it as “Jibeta-consciousness”; which is an attempt to participate in the process of generating the subject and the field by the internal process of the therapist being “kneaded” into the world. This study presents the process of play-therapy from childhood to adolescence with an ASD child, and discusses the process by which the continuous world was built up and was negated by the client separating as the subject.

Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have problems distinguishing between themselves and others, leading to difficulty with inter-subjectivity and a problem with any absence of the subject. Therefore, the psychotherapeutic approaches to ASD target differentiation between oneself and others. The process of differentiation begins with interactions that occur in an undifferentiated state: primitive inter-subjectivity. In play-therapy with an ASD child, the level of the therapist’s consciousness often descends into such a primitive state. This study refers to the therapist’s regression as “Jibeta-consciousness”. The Jibeta-consciousness is the therapist’s attempt to participate in the primitive undifferentiated state, and to become conscious of what is happening there. In Jibeta-consciousness, the therapist’s common logical thinking moves aside to the predicate logical one. This study presents a case of play-therapy with an ASD child in Jibeta-consciousness, as a process of primitive inter-subjectivity, in which the therapist and the client syncretized into the field, encountered and echoed each other, and separated gradually.

不登校を主訴として来談した思春期男児(14歳)の事例を提示し、心理療法過程とは「人間(来談者と治療者)の関わりによってイメージが受肉し解体する過程」としての視点を試みた。人間の関わりとは、イメージに「入り」それを「生きる」ことと、そのことを「省察する」ことの両方を含む。それは「魂に巻き込まれ」、「本当に騙され」、」そしてそのことを「後の認識」として知るという姿勢を通して可能になる。事例において、「鬼」のイメージを自ら体現しているクライエントに治療者は畏怖の感情を抱くと同時に魅了され、自らもイメージの担い手として面接過程の中に入っていった。こうしたイメージは、心理療法過程のなかで生きられることで「受肉」し、変容し、さらに治療者の自己省察であるこの論考のなかで論理へと「解体」していった。ここでは心理療法過程を人間とイメージとの弁証法的で「底無し」の関わりとして見る視点が提示された。