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- Title
CLIENT-CENTERED CHAIRS.
- Authors
Marsh, Bill
- Abstract
This article focuses on client-centred chairs for counseling. Chairs contribute their structure to prop the client's posture or to give him a springboard for his dreaming or a place to jump from in avoidance of agony. When a client wrestles with his inner self, the chair lends legs to be entwined around, armrests to be clutched, fabric to be caressed, flaws to be picked at, even hardness to test the world's reality with sensory receptors along the client's backbone. Though the client may sit in an upholstered chair, soft, warm, and secure in texture, color, and shape, he may grip it tenaciously as if it were a stoollike perch ten feet above the floor, afraid of faIling off and being hurt if he lets go. Sometimes simple chairs become hovels, confessionals, cathedrals, prisoners' boxes, judges' piliars, and kings' thrones, in keeping with the self-images the clients carry. Chairs hold clients who are lonely, brace the weak who would collapse, and are trampolines, trapezes, curbs, hearths, and gallows, changing from hour to hour as the occupant wills.
- Subjects
CHAIRS; THRONES; SEATING (Furniture); COUNSELING; COUNSELORS; HUMAN attitude &; movement
- Publication
Personnel & Guidance Journal, 1973, Vol 51, Issue 10, p710
- ISSN
0031-5737
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/j.2164-4918.1973.tb05319.x