Of course, there are many creative possibilities within the group.
She could look at the men in the group,
expressing to each some of her resentments.
In making contact with each man in the group,
she could share her fantasies of all the ways in which they would let her down or of what she would like from them now yet is afraid to ask for.
The theoretical rationale for this experiment is rooted in the assumption that the emotions that were overwhelming to her as a child were dealt with by some form of distortion or denial.
The Gestalt leader encourages her to reexperience these past events by reliving them in
the here-and-now so that emotions that were repressed can come to the surface.
With the support of the leader and the group members,
she can allow herself to experience feelings that she has sealed off from awareness,
and she can now work through some of these feelings and beliefs that are keeping her
stuck.
By challenging her assumptions of how men are,
she is able to establish a new basis for relating to men.