“The counsellor who never reads a novel or never opens a book of poetry is neglecting an important resource for empathic development.” ReadingBooksEmpathyPersonal DevelopmentCounselling Book:Person-Centred Counselling in Action Source: Person-Centred Counselling in Action
“Part of the discipline of the person-centred approach is not to make assumptions about the client's appropriate process, but to follow the process laid out by the client.” ProcessTherapyAutonomyCounsellingPerson CentredNondirectiveness Book:Person-Centred Therapy Today: New Frontiers in Theory and Practice Source: Person-Centred Therapy Today: New Frontiers in Theory and Practice
“Self-acceptance should not be confused with an over-vaulting aggrandisement of self over others. That individual's exaggerated positive view of self relies upon a comparison with others - they sustain their own positive self-view, relatively, by maintaining a negative view of others.” HumilityPrideSelf AwarenessSelf Acceptance Book:Working at Relational Depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy Source: Working at Relational Depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy
“In our hearts we know that with a different fate, we, too, could be in the ranks of the dispossessed, stripped of our identities and belonging nowhere. The refugee becomes a sinister symbol of what can quickly happen once personhood is denied and people are transformed into disposable units of contemptible impediments to the greed or power-mongering of others.” PoliticsPowerGreedExploitationRefugeesLoss Of Identity Book:Person-Centred Therapy Today: New Frontiers in Theory and Practice Source: Person-Centred Therapy Today: New Frontiers in Theory and Practice