He will also be publishing a book with Sheila McNamee shortly. His work to date is mostly in German, but today I bring you a an article of his in English, and I provide you with the following notes about that article. Deissler tells us that clients invent themselves in therapy by transforming their worlds by talking with therapists. Their ability to do this comes about by exploiting two kinds of conversation in ordinary language. These conversations occur in what he calls poetic moments.
Poetic moments occur in ordinary language, too, but less frequently than they do in therapy.
As an example of a poetic moment, Deissler describes such a moment in the therapy with someone he calls Mr. Kern. Mr. Kern, said in therapy that his wife was dominant and that because of her dominance he escaped from confinement of their relationship for days at a time. During this time he would travel until he ran out of money. In the therapy, Deissler tried to present this client with a positive transvaluation of these excursions so Deissler asked if it was perhaps the case that some men who took time out could be looking for erotic adventures. This reframing seem to reach what Mr. Kern called the heart of the matter and dissolve the problem.