In Paradigmatic Psychotherapy, which is psychoanalytically based, the therapist presents himself to the patient as a model for identification and introjection (“ setting forth an example”). He thus provides the patient with the much-needed opportunity to learn to cope with crucial and stressful life situations. To achieve this purpose, the therapist acts as a paradigm of the world, in which the patient must learn to move and to survive. (8 pp.)