If a client's life is likened to a story or drama, psychotherapy canbe described as the backstage of the play, and the psychotherapist,as an actor who participates in the drama with the director's pointof view. The psychotherapist, while playing a role in the client's story, reads various contexts in the background and foreground ofthe story, understands a number of words expressing images, metaphors,or symbols, comes up with a correct "mitate", and proceedswith the psychotherapy. These tasks, however, are extremely difficultto carry out. This study focuses on context, words, and "mitate" in an attempt to reveal the mechanisms of psychotherapy. Althougheminent scholars have extensively investigated the "story" aspect ofpsychotherapy, this paper is noteworthy in that to examine themechanisms of psychotherapy, it employs the technical vocabularyof dramatists and litterateurs who have expertise in the use ofwords, not only psychotherapists.
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