“What we are doing here is changing the basic definition of psychotherapy. In the past, it has been a process of removing a patient’s special pain and disabilities, of reducing the symptoms. … In [our] approach, the search for pathology and its roots are secondary. Primary is the search for what would be a zestful and enthusiastic life for the person.  Certainly pathology must often be explored and worked through.  But it is viewed in context as the process that blocks the perception and expression of the individual’s special song to sing in life, as the cause of his or her loss of contact with enthusiasm and joy.  This gives the therapeutic process a different flavor and different results.”

Lawrence Leshan
Cancer as a Turning Point

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