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Fighting the containment of their own feelings is understood from the words and phrases that are
suggestive of running away or avoiding the counselling. Fighting the freedom (the Beast) of their
own feelings may be seen in the words or phrases that suggest invasion or being chased by the
counselling. However, some words, like anger or indifference, may apply to either side of the
polarity for what is important in this category is the fight and tension between opposing feelings
or ways of being - as if Beauty repels the Beast. For example the phrase „she‟s not doing enough‟
seems to be an angry criticism towards the counsellor which implies that the participant does not
think that the counsellor is working hard enough. In this sense the participant may be struggling
to contain her anger whilst also fighting to have freedom from it, or to have it. Yet she may be
angry with herself (rather than with the counsellor) for not working hard enough. Both the
context of the journal and the words and phrases are needed together
in order to define a
category and which category a phrase or section fits into.
Extract 4. Journal entry to show the category fighting containment-freedom
Line Words from whole entry Analysis
1. No counselling this week
2. Thoughts go all over the
3. place when I don’t get
4. my counselling. I wonder
5. if it’s a
test these weeks
6. I don’t go to my session
7. to see if I will return!
The client seems to use the journal to
contain herself as she has no session this
week.
Lines 2-7
suggest that she feels lost
without the counselling with thoughts all
over the place. Yet although she wants
the counselling she appears to
fight
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