Comments on Interaction in Psychotherapy

Truth: A Concept in Emergence

“…For us, he is, in the therapeutic situation, the bridge between outer reality and the patient's (and his own) knowledge of their inner truths. (Rosenberg and Medini, 1973) To the extent that he insists on his power to interpret reality, that his is the greater truth, he indulges in a power rather than a therapeutic stance. Psychotherapy may not be the kind of situation susceptible to proof of truth by only one person in it.…”