ABSTRACT
Vulnerability, weakness and childishness all sound very similar to many men, and so it may not be easy for a man to become vulnerable to the child subpersonality in himself, which fears being hurt or abandoned by anyone he is beginning to trust and need. Therapists must move beyond limiting sex roles in order for their clients to do so. If a therapist gives continual messages to the client that he at least is open and male, this in itself gives a role model of noncompetitiveness and nondefensiveness. An honest disclosure regarding the therapist’s inability to provide what the client may need and suggesting an appropriate referral may be the best service the client can receive. The truth and reality of the soul is created and exists in the created. Imagination is a self-originating, autonomous occurrence, sheer presen-cing, a ‘something’ which as a Buddhist would say, is ‘just so’.
