Sublime

Le caractère fait le destin. La nouvelle pensée psychanalytique, à laquelle Friedrich adhère, rejoint l’idée de Spinoza selon laquelle l’avenir est déterminé par ce qu’on a vécu, par notre personnalité physique et psychologique – nos passions, nos peurs, nos buts, nos obsessions, l’amour qu’on se porte à soi-même, la relation qu’on a à l’autre.

NLP is interested in how our thoughts, actions, and feelings work together right now to produce our experience.

helpful to view ourselves as a kind of ‘community of one’, a sort of constantly shifting democracy of the many different sub personalities (or parts) that comprise our individual persona. There are a number of different psychological models that attempt to map out the many parts of our selves,38 but one of the more comprehensive frameworks is that

gives us the lever that psychology has always needed for changing personality.

Gestalt therapy and narrative coaching are both based in a paradoxical theory of change (Beisser, 1970) in which change is seen to occur through fully contacting “what is”—the truth of one’s experience—rather than through trying to be different.

helpful to view ourselves as a kind of ‘community of one’, a sort of constantly shifting democracy of the many different sub personalities (or parts) that comprise our individual persona. There are a number of different psychological models that attempt to map out the many parts of our selves,38 but one of the more comprehensive frameworks is that

Fritz Perls captured the mood perfectly in his oft-repeated catchphrase, “Lose your mind and come to your senses.”

Carl Rogers, one of my most influential mentors, was a master of helping patients to fully accept themselves. Rogers theorized that when our need to self-actualize comes into conflict with our need for positive regard, or vice versa, we might choose to repress or hide or neglect our genuine personalities and desires. When we come to believe that th