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Self & Society
An International Journal for Humanistic Psychology
Volume 30, 2003 - Issue 6
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Psychotherapy: paradoxes, pitfalls & potential

Pages 34-44 | Published online: 21 Jan 2015
 

Abstract

We do not resolve our conflicts. We lose interest in them as we grow out of them. The polarisation of opposites which we suffer is not resolved, removed or even transcended, but it does not necessarily have to continue to dominate our experience, if we can enter, sustain and rest in the underlying paradox freely re-formulated after Jung:

External pressure and internal conflict are inherent in the therapeutic position

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