TABLE 3.

Mimetic self-reflexivity and mimetic intersubjectivity themes.

Mimetic self-reflexivity	Mimetic intersubjectivity
• Being open to intentional ways of attuning themselves to their clients’ internal states and experiences	• Providers employ embodied simulation to facilitate identification and experience themselves as a subject in relationship with another
• Willingness to be vulnerable to observing and sharing in another’s suffering	• Providers communicate their efforts to relate and identify with their patients through an empathetic presence that emphasized shared meanings
• Creating a therapeutic space of provider-patient relationality over time drawing upon precognitive states	• Providers seek to understand the interdependent space between the self and the other in intercorporeal terms emphasizing body sensations and emotions
• Simulating an embodied awareness of another’s experiences in pre-discursive and immediate ways	• Seek to identify that which is known and that which is unknown using imagination and embodied simulation
• Employing practices to build a trusting bond over time through provider’s embodied self-reflexive presence in a shared therapeutic space	• Intersubjective space of shared desire and object through meaning making using imagination to connect with possibilities