ABSTRACT
The range of problems that people might encounter during the course of their lives is potentially infinite, given that the meaning and significance of any ‘problem’ varies enormously from one person to the next. However, it is interesting how similar our different problems become, when we can step back from them. In developing his theory of ‘interpersonal relations’, Harry Stack Sullivan famously said that people really had only two kinds of problems: they had problems relating to themselves and problems in relating to other people.
