Relational Depth Quotes

“An openness to being changed by the client is required of the person-centred therapist. A person-centred therapist who is closed off from being changed implicitly denies the full humanity of the client.”
― David Murphy, Relational Depth: New Perspectives and Developments

“To respond to the call of the other is to be a full and active human being.”
― David Murphy, Relational Depth: New Perspectives and Developments

“If you were to imagine a life where you had very little power, did not have a voice and things happened to you, not with you - what would that feel like?”
― Eleanor Macleod, Relational Depth: New Perspectives and Developments

“While walls provide a boundary and protection, they also exclude people and make intimacy ('into-me-see') difficult.”
― Sue Hawkins, Relational Depth: New Perspectives and Developments

“In our material world, love can be contaminated and distorted and associated with control, dependency, possession, lust, rejection, jealousy, hurt, abandonment and abuse. This has been the past experience of 'love' for many... Thus, to provide a different model of love is, in itself, therapeutic and healing.”
― Sue Hawkins, Relational Depth: New Perspectives and Developments

“The social, political, economic and ecological challenges facing us in the 21st century...cannot be resolved with the same consciousness that created them.”
― Gill Wyatt, Relational Depth: New Perspectives and Developments

“Dialogue is the non-indifference of the I towards the Thou ... dialogue is a primary, underlying condition of being human, of being a person, as is love.”
― Peter F. Schmid, Relational Depth: New Perspectives and Developments

“Psychotherapy is not a method of repairing problems or fostering personal happiness. That is psychotechnique. On the contrary ... it is fundamentally an ethical and a political task.”
― Peter F. Schmid, Relational Depth: New Perspectives and Developments

“The commitment within the person-centred approach [is] to dismantling the structural distribution of power within society.”
― David Murphy, Relational Depth: New Perspectives and Developments