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Pages 32-34
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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Although many clients experience being imprisoned in a world that is distressing and painful, they often resist changing it. This article discusses Plato's “Myth of the Cave” as a metaphor both for an individual's adherence to his or her phenomenological “world” or script and for the psychotherapeutic process.

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Marye O'Reilly-Knapp

Marye O'Reilly Knapp, M. S. N, is a Certified Clinical Nurse Specialist and a psychotherapist in private practice in Philadelphia and Devon, Pennsylvania. She is a Certified Transactional Analyst.