The Context of Psychotherapy: The Geometry of Motivation
摘要
This chapter discusses the structure of motivation, including the balance of motives, developing a comprehensive account of motivational and behavioural compensations. An overarching principle of the geometry of motivation is that of symmetry, where experience, values, and sensibility all play a part in how a person will approach what could broadly be considered a life project and how one will address important individual situations faced in life. The key role of modality and modal thinking in general in understanding the symmetry of motivation is reflected in the particular choices a person makes seen as geometrical outcomes or an interplay of various motivational directions. In psychosis, where a disturbed reality defines the person’s experience of the world, a particular geometry of motivation remains as basic structure.