ABSTRACT
In our current emphasis on ‘doing’—on achieving goals and meeting targetsthe need ‘to be’ and to ‘reflect’ is easily overlooked. Winnicott’s observation, ‘after being-doing and being done to. But first, being’, focuses on the importance of who we are and not simply on what we do. And for James Hillman (1974:99) the most important of all the ‘re-’; words is ‘re-spect’, meaning to look again; this for him is the whole of psychology in a single word (1991:118-19). The need ‘to be’ and to ‘re-spect’ deserve to be valued.
