Science to be alive. The dialogue between therapist and patients in humanistic therapy (№ 396246)

Popular culture - movies, novels, TV shows - has created the image of a healing effect that has on people sudden insight, a new perspective on my life. This has led to what I call the "detective" direction in psychotherapy. Many patients treat themselves this way and are willing to examine their own actions, words, clauses, dreams and everything else, to find evidence on the basis of which it would be possible to build a case. The difference between "insight" to which come (therapist, patient, or both) with the help of a detective psychotherapy and through awareness of inner feelings, this is the same as the distinction between artificial lighting and sunlight. The first may show us things that we otherwise would not see, but only the latter has all the properties that we need for life and growth.