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This presentation attempts to exemplify and support the following assertions:
In psychoanalysis altered states of consciousness (ASC) can and do occur.
During analysis, therapists may be unaware, partially aware or very aware of these ASC.
ASC are integral to the therapeutic process.
ASC are essential to an effective therapy.
ASC can be facilitated to happen and to happen more frequently.
For such happenings there are certain prerequisites as to theory, technique, the therapeutic relationship and the person of the therapist.
The theoretical guides must be holistic regarding the nature of man. They should encompass dualistic and nondualistic ones and congenially utilize existential and oriental visions of man. The techniques must be appropriate and adequate to such theories. They would constitute a psychoanalysis that focuses on the experiencing process developed in Helping People (Kelman 1971) and elaborated in “Irrational Feelings: a Therapeutic Approach” (Kelman 1973). Eleven modes of being manifested in seven character attributes have been identified in “Chronic Analysts and Chronic Patients: The Therapist's Person as Instrument” (Kelman 1973). “Communing and Relating” (Kelman 1958, 1959), describes the experience and process of patient and therapist being there, present to and as presence for the other. Conditions conducive to a psychoanalysis of the experiencing process were