ABSTRACT

Psychotherapy is about resolving habitual interruptions to both internal and external contact. It involves the dynamic tension between one’s natural tendency to grow and change and the equally natural pull to stay as one is and to remain with the familiar. Without both of these tendencies, to change and to remain the same, there would be no such thing as psychotherapy: without the urge to grow, psychotherapy would be useless; without the pull to stay the same, it would be unnecessary.