On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

transformation

• If I can provide a certain type of relationship, the other will discover within himself the capacity to use that relationship for growth.

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• This fragment indicates very well the quiet joy in being one's self, together with the apologetic attitude which, in our culture, one feels necessary.

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self-and-identity

• It is only as I see them as you see them, and accept them and you, that you feel really free to explore all the hidden nooks of your inner experience.

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• The person increasingly discovers that his own organism is trustworthy, a suitable instrument for discovering the most satisfying behavior in each situation.

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faith-and-doubt

• I for the first time emancipated myself from the religious thinking of my parents—here, more than any other time, I became an independent person.

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• I could not work in a field where I would be required to believe in some specified religious doctrine. My beliefs had already changed tremendously.

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