It surprises me to hear you say that, because as I understand the term, you would be "coming from the representational side" any time you ask someone "does this hurt", instead of waiting for them to moan or kick or interact with the environment in some way. I'm not saying that you need to adopt a philosophical stance on consciousness each time you ask that question, merely you pop on a hat because of its immediate advantages. Indeed, the whole idea of adopting a general philosophical stance is what I'm criticizing, and perhaps that's what you mean when you say you are not "coming from" any particular philosophical stance, be it representational or otherwise. Also, psychotherapy almost always treats the patient's mind as if it were a separate entity from whatever is going on around it-- the techniques of psychotherapy are intended to work in a wide array of environmental situations, without the therapist actually encountering that environment at all, and seems pretty "representational" to me.

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