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- 2. ABOUT MY CHAPTER This chapter was first given as a talk to a meeting at Oberlin College in 1954. I was trying to pull together in more completely organized form, some of the conceptions of therapy which had been growing in me. I have revised it slightly. I was trying to keep my thinking close to the grass roots of actual experience in therapeutic interviews, so I drew heavily upon recorded interviews as the source of generalizations which I make.
- 3. DISCOVERY OF SELF In our daily lives there are many reasons for not letting ourselves experience our attitudes fully. It seems too dangerous to experience them freely and fully. In safety and freedom of therapeutic relationships, they can be experienced fully, clear to the limit what they are. Experienced in a fashion I like to think of as a “pure culture”, so that for the moment the person is his fear, or he is his anger, or whatever.
- 4. EXAMPLE FROM A CLIENT A young man, a graduate student who is deep in therapy, has been puzzling over a vague feeling which he senses in himself. He gradually identifies it as a frightened feeling of some kind, a fear of failing, a fear of not getting his Ph.D.
- 5. INTERVIEW Statements by client: Client: I was kinda letting it seep through. But I also tied it in with you and with my relationship with you. And that’s one thing I feel about it is a kind of a fear of it going away; or that’s another thing ---- it’s so hard to get hold of --there’s kind of two pulling feelings about it. Or two “me’s” somehow. One is the scared one that wants to hold on to things, and that one I guess I can feel pretty clear right now. C:Won’t you let me have this, because, you know, I kinda need it. I can be so lonely and scared without it.
- 6. Demonstration Here he is, for a moment, experiencing himself as nothing but a pleading little boy, supplicating, begging, dependent. At the moment, he is nothing but his pleadingness, all the way through. He realizes that this has bubbled through, and for the moment he is his dependency, in a way which astonishes him.
- 7. CONCLUSION What I have gradually learned from experiences such as this, is that the individual in such a moment, is coming to be what he is. When a person has, throughout therapy, experienced in this fashion all the emotions which organismically arise in him, and has experienced them in this knowing and open manner ,then has experienced himself.