“Love the child in front of you, not the one in your mind.”
I don’t remember where or when I first saw this quote, but I have never forgotten it. Who among us, even as adults, doesn’t want to be seen and loved as we are? The humanistic psychologists believed this to be the case, insisting that it is not possible for clients to move towards health until they feel acceptance, genuineness, and empathy from their therapist. Freud, too, said, “In the end, psychoanalysis is a cure of love.”
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