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Frame, ideal The set of universally and unconsciously validated ground rules. This includes a set fee, frequency, time and length of sessions; total privacy and confidentiality; the relative anonymity of the therapist; the absence of physical contact between patient and therapist; and the use of neutral interventions based on trigger decoding patients' material. See also: frame, secured.

Frame, modified A set of ground rules for psychotherapy or counseling in which one or more of the ideal, unconsciously validated ground rules is either not invoked or is altered. The use of a modified ground rule obtains non-validating, encoded, unconscious responses. This type of frame evokes predatory death anxieties in patients and predator death anxieties in the therapist who has altered the frame and who is thereby seducing and harming the patient-however inadvertently and unconsciously.

Frame, secured The ideal, soundly holding set of ground rules that universally are supported and validated by patients' responsive encoded or unconscious narrative imagery. There is, then, a universally and unconsciously confirmed and unconsciously sought set of rules and boundaries that promote trust and emotional healing. These frames also, however, activate notable existential death anxieties that often cause an unconscious dread of the optimal conditions for a psychotherapy of counseling experience.

Frame, therapeutic The ground rules and setting of a therapy as they create the context for the ongoing therapeutic exchanges and experience.