Where does the expression "you have the chair" come from?

H0T-Lead

It stems from common usage in committee meetings where some form of parliamentary procedure is followed. The person in charge of the meeting, the "chairperson," is relinquising control to somebody else; the chair in this case meaning the seat of power or control. The concept of "chair" in this context is is in turn derived from court (royalty) practice where only the king or his representative was seated and eveyone else stood. The implication is that whoever is seated in the "chair" is the person in charge. Jul 18 05, 7:20 AM

satguru

It was extended in gestalt therapy by Fritz Perls where the client and the therapists took turns playing the roles of other people in the client's life, which was also called 'the hot seat'. Though they seem to have moved beyond it now apparently! http://www.zianet.com/gcnm/Groups.html Jul 18 05, 4:09 PM

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