#humanistic therapy

[touch-starved-lurker]

reading my psychology textbook on the different types of therapies and being like ohhhhh so that's what my therapist has been doing to me

[watershedecotherapy]

Unconditional Positive Regard and Ecopsychology

Unconditional Positive Regard and #Ecopsychology - #ecotherapy #humanisticpsychology #psychology #therapy #therapist

“The central hypothesis of this approach can be briefly stated. It is that the individual has within him or her self vast resources for self-understanding, for altering her or his self-concept, attitudes, and self-directed behavior—and that these resources can be tapped if only a definable climate of facilitative psychological attitudes can be provided,” –Carl Rogers, on unconditional positive…

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[sullen-flower]

'We know that the dream is definitely the most spontaneous production we have. It comes about without our intention, will, deliberation... 'All the different parts of the dream are fragments of our personalities. Since our aim is to make every one of us a wholesome person, which means a unified person, without conflicts, what we have to do is put the different fragments of the dream together. We have to re-own these projected, fragmented parts of our personality...' Fritz Perls, Gestalt Therapy Verbatim (1969)

[sullen-flower]

'Often children are more mature than adults... As a matter of fact, the adult is very seldom a mature person. An adult is, in my opinion, a person who plays the role of an adult, and the more he plays the role, the more immature he often is.' Fritz Perls, Gestalt Therapy Verbatim (1969)

[sullen-flower]

'Learning is discovery... You can tell the child a thousand times, "The stove is hot." It doesn't help. The child has to discover it for himself.' Fritz Perls, Gestalt Therapy Verbatim (1969)

[sullen-flower]

'Once you have a character, you have developed a rigid system. Your behaviour becomes petrified, predictable, and you lose your ability to cope freely with the world with all your resources. You are predetermined just to cope with events in one way, namely, as your character prescribes it to be... In our society, we demand a person to have a character, and especially a good character, because then you are predictable, and you can be pigeonholed, and so on.' Fritz Perls, Gestalt Therapy Verbatim (1969)

[sullen-flower]

'As you know, there is a rebellion on in the United States. We discover that producing things, and living for things, and the exchange of things, is not the ultimate meaning of life. We discover that the meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualised and squeezed into a pattern of systems. We realise that manipulation and control are not the ultimate joy in life.' Fritz Perls, Gestalt Therapy Verbatim (1969)

[sullen-flower]

'Anxiety is the excitement, the élan vitale which we carry with us, and which becomes stagnated if we are unsure about the role we have to play. If we don't know if we will get applause or tomatoes, we hesitate, so the heart begins to race and all the excitement can't flow into activity, and we have stage fright. So the formula of anxiety is very simple: anxiety is the gap between the now and the then. If you are in the now you can't be anxious because the excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity. If you are in the now, you are creative, you are inventive. If you have your senses ready, if you have your eyes and ears open, like every small child, you find a solution.' Fritz Perls, Gestalt Therapy Verbatim (1969)