once an experience is fully in awareness, fully accepted, then it can be coped with effectively, like any other clear reality. - Carl Rogers

"We live by a perceptual "map" which is never reality itself."

Each man must resolve within himself issues for which his society previously took full responsibility.

In my deepest contacts with individuals in therapy, even those whose troubles are most disturbing, whose behavior has been most anti-social, whose feelings seem most abnormal, I find this to be true. When I can sensitively understand the feelings which they are expressing, when I am able to accept them as separate persons in their own right, then I find that they tend to move in certain directions. And what are these directions in which they tend to move? The words which I believe are most truly descriptive are words such as positive, constructive, moving toward self-actualization, growing toward maturity, growing toward socialization.