In our hearts we know that with a different fate, we, too, could be in the ranks of the dispossessed, stripped of our identities and belonging nowhere. The refugee becomes a sinister symbol of what can quickly happen once personhood is denied and people are transformed into disposable units of contemptible impediments to the greed or power-mongering of others.
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Dave Mearns
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Person-Centred Counselling in Action
Person-Centred Therapy Today: New Frontiers in Theory and Practice
Working at Relational Depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy
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The counsellor who never reads a novel or never opens a book of poetry is neglecting an important resource for empathic development.
Self-acceptance should not be confused with an over-vaulting aggrandisement of self over others. That individual's exaggerated positive view of self relies upon a comparison with others - they sustain their own positive self-view, relatively, by maintaining a negative view of others.