References
Carl Rogers
Sigmund Freud
Carl Gustav Jung
Donald Winnicott
Others, non-exhaustive list:
Ph.D, teacher at the university of Chicago. His best seller
"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 Relationship.
My therapeutic approach is perfectly in tune with his work.
"In my early professional years I was asking the question: How cqn 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
I deliberately place them side by side instead of opposing them, because these two pioneers of psychoanalysis have worked together for a long time 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 ti;e Jung was my main reference because he was more inclined to spirituality including a meticulous and extremely well-researched study of religions. His work especially the one on the Psychological Types have become a reference in terms od personality tests such as developed by Isabel Briggs Myers widely
used in business trainings.
"Self-actualization is the opposite of self-depersonalization." CGJ
Sigmund Freud offered a different vision than Jung but equally fascinating as he tackeld more taboo subjects, more disturbing concerning the worlds which seem
to oppose in us.
"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 is favorite topics and no Person on Becomimg can develop with harmony denying these truths.
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 relationship;
Virginia Satir, on systemic therapy.