Recapitulation appears in the depth-psychology corpus under two distinct but theoretically resonant registers. The first, advanced most systematically by Yalom, designates the ‘corrective recapitulation of the primary family group’ — one of eleven primary therapeutic factors in group psychotherapy. Here the group setting becomes a stage upon which clients unconsciously restage foundational familial configurations, and the curative power lies in the possibility of revising those configurations rather than merely repeating them. The second register, developed within Motivational Interviewing by Miller, treats recapitulation as a technical clinical intervention: a deliberate, transitional collecting summary of the client’s accumulated change talk, functioning as both a test of readiness and a mobilizing bouquet of the client’s own motivational language. These two senses of the term share an underlying logic — that something previously lived must be gathered, re-presented, and worked through anew — yet they differ sharply in theoretical grounding and clinical deployment. Hillman’s archetypal perspective and Moore’s alchemical circulatio offer oblique resonances: both insist that the soul’s material must be turned over repeatedly rather than transcended. Taken together, these positions suggest that recapitulation, whether in the family theater of the therapy group or the practitioner’s office, is never mere repetition but always an opportunity for transformation through consciously held re-encounter.