ABSTRACT
I'm pretty good at living and letting live, so the fact that people have held different points of view from mine has never troubled me much. Criticisms that come from honest viewpoints which differ quite sharply from mine are OK with me. I suppose the kind of criticism that I've liked least is the notion, which used to be expressed in many ways over the course of years, that the client-centered approach was a pretty shallow approach. It might do for dealing with superficial problems, but it really had not much to do with the deeper problems of personality. That is just not true. This criticism has probably troubled me more than any other I can think of, because I don't think I am superficial. You can't do anything but laugh off the fact that a lot of criticism is based on a complete lack of understanding of what I've been doing and what my associates have been doing.
