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53) that the act of appreciating the person actually produces a chemical change that permits a freedom of the soul to stop defending all the conditions that maintain it in its pain. “The new creation is a flexible ego that can be new, fresh and express passion and compassion from the place of a new variableness in existence” (Page 54). Morrow and Smith describe the healing process as strengthening the person to move beyond mere survival to wholeness and empowerment, from managing helplessness and being overwhelmed by threatening and dangerous feelings to problem focused strategies.(Page 32). Therapy permits the therapist to understand that the “profusion of dysfunctional symptoms really can be seen as rational and reasonable coping strategies”. Bugental discusses that

therapy is useful in showing how we all imprison ourselves. He theorizes that when this recognition is deeply experienced, “the world is already beginning to change-because the crippling element in these definitions is the belief that they are and can be the only way one sees them..”(Page 27) He says we cripple ourselves by making us into objects and forgetting our subjectivity. In therapy we learn to recognize and respect our needs, emotions, anticipations, apprehensions and our sense of concern. But we learn not to be dominated by them. We learn the frightening quality of relationships, that of the lack of control adds to the richness of relationships. We learn to invest in life and that relinquishment can be a sign of something right not necessarily something that has gone

wrong. We learn that laws and mores are not absolutes but open to constant revision as we are to do with our inner selves. Psychology seems to share the ideas that a person in emotional pain is stuck in a self made prison which can be escaped through unconditional positive regard and a fresh perspective. What isn’t clear is how rational thought combined with ‘love’ enters the person’s heart and soul. Bibliography Bugental James,F.T. “Lessons Clients Teach Therapists”, J. of Humanistic Psychology Vol.31 No. 3 Summer 1991 Mittleman Willard “Maslow’s Study of Self-Actualiztion: A Reinterpretation” Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Vol. 31 No.1, Winter 1991 Pages 114-135 Morrow Susan L. and Smith Mary Lee,”Survival Coping by Sexual Abuse Survivors”, Journal of

Counseling Psychology 1995 Vol 42, No.1, pages 24-33. “The Process of Change:Variations on a Theme by Virginia Satir”, J. of Humanistic Psychology, Vol. 34 No.3, Summer, 1994 Pages 87-110. Schoen Stephen MD “Psychotherapy as Sacred Ground”, J. of Humanistic Psychology, Vol 31 No.1, Winter 1991 Pages 51-55 Vanderbilt Gloria, “A Mother’s Story”, Alfred A. Knopf, N. Y. 1996