abstraction questioning skills

therapy focuses more on preventive goal where treatment on curative goals
there is a therapy called metaphor therapy
that believes that we think in metaphor
even though it is a breakthrough
it is still not accurate because a metaphore is static
it is more appropriate to focus on mentalese
a mentalese therapy
that believes that our mind is a language (verbal and graphic)
it is more dynamic

using clean languages, a client guide the therapist into his mind landscape
and the therapist use his navigational questioning skills in reading the road signs
a client comes to therapist because he is stuck or lost direction
a therapist is a driving ed instructor who accompany the client
into the journey of his mind
by using questioning skills

mentalese exist on many dimension of abstractions
on average, it is neither highly nor lowly abstract
we leave many details out but also it's not out there
we can zoom in or zoom out using the questioning skills
we first zoom out to see the big picture or the map
before we focus on details
we zoom out to create rapport
we pull out to the edge of relationship level, the stranger's level
where we talk about general issue
we nomalize, use exagerated and loose adjectives and adverb
we use loose unknown referential and performative
we make loose conjunction, connection in time, and causality
we mind read
we use modal operative as we please
we use yes/no questions or tag questions that is easy to answer
we use slangs or highly abstract words that is highly ambiguise
we use negative commands

when I am in the car, it's time to travel the road
we shift to higher gears to focus on more detail
we zoom into details
break down ambiquity and looseness
we break down gerunds or any noun that is not noun
any abstract nouns
we question any unspecified/unquantified noun
any absolute quantifier
we question uncleared verb, adverb, or adjective
we question the source and authority
we question any comparison
we question any mind reading

in mentalese therapy, we look at both the environment and the subject
our mind is like a complex sentence where there is a subject with its verb
and there is an environmental clause
the environment is the background and it's more automatic
the subject is the foreground and the main actor that act on the environment
this is complex based has emotion attached to it
it's like an actor in the movie
the subject is I, the environment is usually the Others, the social environment
it's a struggle against environment of how to control the environment
and the person is losing the war
he is stuck in his problem
he is getting sick
or he is in double bind where he knows what to do but can't do it


the client receive information from inside but also receive information from his senses, TOP DOWN AND BOTTOM UP
his attention shift from the past, future, imagination, and the present
his mind shift from other tenses and simple present tense, from RELATIVE TO ABSOLUTE

Mentalese therapy is a personality therapy
a deep dynamic structured personality therapy in motion
examining the structure of his self and his environment