INDEX OF QUOTES
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In everyday life we observe what happens naturally to people as they grow and live together. The intensified, consciously structured growth experience which is therapy can be understood by the same principle, and seen as not essentially different from any other life experience in which two people participate in a genuine and fundamental way. A sense of relatedness of one person to another is an essential requirement of individual growth. The relationship must be one in which the person is regarded as an individual with resources for his own self-development rather than as the helpless victim of a neurosis which can be cured only through a dependency relationship. The process of self-growth sometimes involves an internal struggle between dependency needs and strivings for autonomy, but the individual eventually feels free to face himself if he is in a relationship where his human capacity is recognized and cherished and where he is accepted and loved. Then he is able to develop his own quantum in life, to become more and more individualized, self-determining and spontaneous. |
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