Sublime

In contrast to the conventional perspective of psychotherapy, however, which tends to view aspects of this struggle in terms of illness or disease and to see human beings as more or less helpless pawns manipulated by forces outside their control, I see the endeavor as potentially heroic. It contains all the elements of great myth or great drama, fr

Caretaking–focusing attention on other people’s needs

He must let go of “who he is” to adopt the role of “who he must be.” When he loses his identity, he adopts a False Self—who lives only to please his mother and by extension all others—while his True Self is smothered and neglected.

“To be with people as a church member is to find ways of helping them and meeting their needs. If we do not do this, we are not Christians.

On this day, one shifts from tampering, control, and aggression to harmonizing behavior. Being, friendship, and relationships become the central modes of existence.

RULER curriculum, in when he teaches people a set of emotional skills: how to Recognize, Understand, Label, Express, and Regulate their emotions.

action by personifying acceptance and friendship. It is the pastor’s task, Henry believed, to run at the speed of intimacy—and this was very different from pastors before him.

It is my belief that all such analyses of other human beings are tragic expressions of our own values and needs. They are tragic because when we express our values and needs in this form, we increase defensiveness and resistance among the very people whose behaviors are of concern to us. Or, if people do agree to act in harmony with our values, the

As an aid in this effort, use is made of a working hypothesis. Starting out from the fact that the frustrated1 predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own accord, it is assumed: 1) that frustration of itself, without any proselytizing prompting from the outside, can generate most of the peculi