ABSTRACT
"Nondirective therapy is based upon the assumption that the individual has within himself not only the ability to solve his own problems satisfactorily, but also this growth impulse that makes mature behavior more satisfying than immature behavior." Psycho-analysts have to justify themselves socially in other ways than by meeting social pressure and they may be able to help those who are doing satisfactory work or very good work indeed by giving backing. There is of course, the American antagonism to the idea of the training of non-medical people to be reckoned with and this must inevitably result in the sprouting of psychotherapy groupings where something is done that is not called psycho-analysis and that has not had the advantage of psycho-analytic training. The great thing that is different between play therapy of Miss Axline's variety and psycho-analysis is that the therapy stops short at the point where the therapist mirrors the child as he actually is.
