Abstract
It is my basic premise that “healing through meeting” is a viable, dynamic component of the healing process. In order to understand the full impact of this statement it is important to determine what it means to be human. Becoming a human being is a process of growth and this growth must be nurtured by other human beings. We are not solitary creatures; we come into being in relation to others and it is in relation to others that we learn what it means to be fully human. The basic principle here relates to the writings of Martin Buber and Maurice Friedman and concerns the concept of distance and relation.
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Martin Buber, The Knowledge of Man: A Philosophy of The Interhuman, edited with an introduction by Maurice Friedman (New York Harper and Row, 1966), p. 71.
Maurice Friedman, The Confirmation of Otherness in Family, Community and Society (New York: Pilgrim Press, 1983), pp. 56–57.
Louise G. Kaplan, Oneness and Separateness: From Infant to Individual (New York Simon and Schuster, 1978), p. 32.
Ibid., pp. 44–45.
Maurice Friedman, The Healing Dialogue in Psychotherapy (New York: Jason Aronson, 1985), p. 218.
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Friedman, A.M. (1992). Distance and Relation and the Development of the Person. In: Treating Chronic Pain. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5968-3_5
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