Abstract
A relationship with others which will permit us to help them at the deepest personal level of their need requires that we accept ourselves as we are. The maintenance of distance by manner of life, by a judgmental attitude, or by an impersonal, official relationship may protect our precarious self-image, but it also projects to the other our rejection of him. A helping relationship requires that we be open enough to be vulnerable which we will be unwilling to be if we unconsciously reject ourselves.
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