Relationship therapy is based on the assumption that the patient will bring into his relationship with the therapist the whole range of his feelings and behavior. The therapist becomes the human target for all the frustrating devices the patient has used in everyday relationships. He has the opportunity to relive them with the therapist acting as a sort of buffer. The essence of the therapy is the living experience of the relationship. The therapist is passive toward the factual content of the patient's productions, Points out its underlying meaning, and remains constant in sympathetic objectivity.
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