The Power Of Relationship

12/5/2009




from Carl Rogers' On Becoming a Person:
A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy


"It has gradually been driven home to me that
I cannot be of help to a troubled person by
means of any intellectual or training procedure.
No approach which relies upon knowledge, upon
training, upon the acceptance of something that
is taught, is of any use.

These approaches seem so tempting and direct
that I have, in the past, tried a great many of
them. It is possible to explain a person to himself,
to prescribe steps which should lead him forward,
to train him in knowledge about a more satisfying
mode of life.

But such methods are, in my experience, futile
and inconsequential. The most that they can
accomplish is some temporary change, which
soon disappears, leaving the individual more than
ever convinced of his inadequacy.

The failure of any such approach through the
intellect has forced me to recognize that change
appears to come about through experience in a
relationship …

If I can provide a certain type of relationship,
the other person will discover within himself the
capacity to use that relationship for growth, and
change and personal development will occur."


Posted in Psychology

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