3. The use of recognition to guide the therapeutic process assumes that defensive blocks and inhibitory affects (e.g., anxiety, shame, guilt, fear) that scramble access to somatically based affective experience have been dealt with and that their impact is thus minimized. This is the stuff of technique and accounts for a large part of clinical writing, including my writing (e.g., Fosha, 2000). Howver, in this chapter, technique is not discussed, just assumed, or as it is said in the law, stipulated. Nonetheless, it is necessary to make this point because recognition can accompany many phenomena that are the result of defensive and inhibiting affects and thus will not unleash healing transformational processes. Shunning people feels right to a schizoid person, and not getting out of bed can feel right to a depressed person, but recognition experiences that mark, reinforce, and amplify resistance-driven strivings are not the ones under discussion here. Nor are the techniques for transforming such experiences. What is under discussion are recognition experiences that mark, reinforce, and amplify transformance-driven strivings, to which the individual already has access.