05/06/2024
Some have asked why the name 'Insight Therapy Centre'. A qoute from Carl R. Rogers, an American Person-Centred Psychologist, who continues to inspire my practice best describes the intention with the name:
“It is recognized that once the individual genuinely understands his behavior, and accepts that understanding, he is able to adopt a more realistic and satisfactory control of his actions, is less likely to hurt others to gain satisfactions, and in general can become more mature... This understanding of self we customarily call insight... The achievement of insight is the keystone of the process of therapy. First comes the experience of release— the pouring out of feelings, the loosening of repressions, the unburdening of guilt, the lessening of tension. There follows, if progress is to be made, the understanding of self, the acceptance of one’s impulses, the perception of relationships, which we classify under the term insight. Then, out of this more accurate view of the inner life, out of this new understanding of the web of personal adjustments, come new plans, new choices, new and more satisfying ways of meeting the realities with which the individual is faced."
Rogers, C. (1944). The development of insight in a counselling relationship. Journal of Counsulting Psychology, 8(6), 331–341.
