What is meant by “growth”?
In keeping with the phenomenological base and the focus on “radical respect,” growth is self-determined and self-motivated, arising from the uniquely experienced needs and curiosities of each person. Generally the target is labeled as “self support” rather than the kind of environmental dependency that neurotic mechanisms focus upon. Therapists have ideas as to growthful directions; however, the clients themselves determine the processes that work and the structures that are felt to be growthful.
