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then exploration may be held up. This does not mean that containment was not offered or present
but simply not felt as such due to the impact of the client‟s previous history (Etherington,2000).
In these moments where emotional movement appears to be obliterated by previous experience
what becomes important is the continued emotional presence of the counsellor. This is perhaps
when, without the client being aware of it the counsellor holds what cannot be held or tolerated
by the client. So in a sense it is the client‟s immobilised state which is contained (or freed) and
which in being contained frees the client to experience themselves (Klein, 1995), and their own
affects which have not before been brought into awareness. As feelings are brought into
awareness the client is enabled to move or remain stuck as opposition is either tolerated or
denied. The split between containment and freedom perhaps helps the client organise experience
(Godwin,1994) so that some order begins to be created out of the chaos of their unaware
unconscious.
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