This article relates key experiences in personal development to a pattern of growth that can be used as a model for steps in therapy. Key experiences are used the illuminate the steps. Reading references are given that represent the intellectual development that informed the life experiences.
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Page 44 ff. discusses psychopathology in a manner that shows Berne's idea that information is written on the brain after birth.
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I read this book 34 years ago. Until I reviewed the book for this article, I thought the Binswanger case studies had influenced me the most. What I underlined was the editor May. In his writing is the nucleus of what I became. In the writings of the phenomenalists is my understanding of language. I understand the writings in more depth now than I did when I first read this life-shaping book.
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A draft of a paper, You Are Your Secrets (given to this author in the early 1960s), which spells out in detail Mower's understanding of how duplicity leads to pathology and is a theme in his published book.
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