Sublime

Therapy could elicit ideas and emotions—but it had no direct way to connect patients to the forces they needed to change their lives. When I met Phil, I instantly realized he’d learned how to make that connection. The answer lay in the power of the tools he’d discovered.

Therapists who are trained to see people as complex human beings with multiple characteristics and potentialities can help them explore their system of inner parts and take care of the wounded facets of themselves.

Carl Rogers

first psychotherapist I’d met whose focus was on the solution, not the problem. He was absolutely confident that human beings possessed untapped forces that allowed them to solve their own problems.

Syd Banks (the initial inspiration behind this form of psychology) began to speak. The audience listened with a deep respect, and the

By their questions and their attention, their careful probing and investigative stealth, the therapist tries – harder than anyone may yet have done – to discover how our presenting problem might be related to the rest of our existence and, in particular, to the turmoils of childhood. Over many sessions, a succession of small discoveries contributes