ABSTRACT
For, as the century of psychology, the last hundred years have established in the Western mind expectations of the banishment of distress through therapy far greater than is justified by the actual lessons of experience. The whole lesson of life is that change is not easily achieved, and certainly not from the inside out in the manner promised by therapeutic magic. Change will come about not through self-transforming efforts of will but through the redeeming power of love. People whose distress would be greatly alleviated by a change in their position in the world could do two things. The first is to consider carefully what their powers and resources are; the second is to grasp the nettle of change. The kind of learning necessary for people to alter their position in the world so that it will become for them a less distressing place receives practically no such support from the social environment.
