Professor Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, his bestseller "On Becoming a Person" was published in 1966.

 The wide succes of his writings contibuted greatly to the renown of his work on nondirectiviy and Helping Relationships.

My therapeutic approach is perfectly in tune with his work.

"In my early professional years I was asking the question, 'How can I treat, or cure, or change this person?'

Now I would phrase the question in this way:  'How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his personal growth?'"  CR

Pediatrician, psychoanalyst, emiment clinician, visionary theorist, he forged concepts widely used today, transitional object and transitional phenomena, the game as a potential space, the good enough-mother, holding and handling, the self and the false self, the capacity to be alone .

"It is a joy to be hidden but a disaster not to be found."  DW

Winnicott is part of the British school of empiricism which is an important element of my personal journey.

Anna Freud, on defense mechanisms;

Abraham Maslow, founder of humanistic psychology with Carl Rogers;

William Schultz, on interpersonal relationships;

Virginia Satir, on systemic therapy.

I deliberately place them side by side instead of opposing them, because these two pioneers of psychoanalysis worked together for many years and have allowed us a detailed exploration of the unconscious which sometimes reigns in our psyches like an invisible master to the detriment of our collective or individual consciousness.  For a long time Jung was my main reference because he was more inclined to spirituality, including a meticulous and extremely well-researched study of religions.  

His works, especially on 'Psychological Types,'  have become a reference in terms of personality tests, such as the MBTI, developed by Isabel Briggs Myers, which is widely used in business training.

"Self-actualization is the opposite of self-depersonalization."  CGJ

Sigmund Freud offered a different vision than Jung but an equally fascinating one, as he tackeld more disturbing and taboo subjects, exploring the worlds which seem to be in opposition within ourselves.

"The energetic and successful man is the one who succeeds in transforming the fantasies of desire

into reality."  SF

Vital energy, sexuality, libido of the ego or libido of the object, the interpretation of dreams are favorite topics and no Person Becomimg Him or Herself can develop with harmony denying these truths.