Eupsychian Therapist
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Eupsychian Therapist
Eupsychian Therapist is a needs-satisfying therapist. It is a therapist devoted to uncovering unmet needs and finding ways to meet them.
Concept Map
Key Terms
Related LP Terms
Non-LP Related Terms
Syncretic Terms
The Eupsychian Therapist (or "Ontogogist")[1]
Maslow proposes a fundamentally different role for the counselor:
Core Identity
- Not a healer of disease, but a fosterer of self-actualization
- Not an authority figure, but an "older brother" (Alfred Adler's concept)—someone who loves, takes responsibility, and has lived longer, but is not qualitatively different from the person being helped
- Someone who helps the "younger brother" become more fully himself, in his own style
| Trait | Description |
|---|---|
| Taoistic | Non-interfering, "letting be"—not laissez-faire or neglectful, but allowing the person's inner nature to unfold |
| Non-imposing | Never imposes themselves, propagandizes, or tries to make the client an imitation of themself |
| Respectful of essence | Honors the client's inner nature, being, and essence—like a gardener who serves the rosebush regardless of their own nationality or school of thought. See Horticultural Model |
| Invisible framework | Their textbooks, beliefs, and theoretical orientation should never be perceptible to the client |
| Uncovering, not molding | Helps break through defenses against self-knowledge so the client can recover themselves and get to know themselves |
The Goal
"To help them to be more perfectly what they already are, to be more full, more actualizing, more realizing in fact what they are in potentiality."
The therapist serves the client's triumphant nature—helping uncover repressed, unconscious aspects of the self so truth, insight, and authentic being can emerge.
Key Insight
The people we call "sick" are simply "not themselves"—they've built neurotic defenses against being human. The eupsychian therapist's job is to help remove those defenses, not to "fix" a broken person, but to remove blockages, help individuals meet unmet needs, and allow what was always there to flourish.
Notes
Quotes
"In point of fact, we already have such a model in the Good Psychotherapist. This is about the way [they] function. [Their]] conscious effort is not to impose [their] will upon the paitent, but rather to help the patient--inarticulate, unconscious, semi-conscious--to discover what is inside [them]], the patient. The psychotherrapist helps [them] to discover what [they themselves] wants or desires, what is good for [them], the patient, rather than what is good for the therapist. This is the opposite of controlling, propagandizing, molding, teaching in the old sense....This attitude implies a preference for spontaneity rather than for control, for trust in the organism rather than mistrust. It assumes that the person wants to be fully human rather than that he wants to be sick, pained, or dead."[2]
Abraham Maslow Terms
- Aggridant
- B-Cognition
- B-Needs
- B-Realm
- B-Values
- Being-Guilt
- Big Problem
- D-Cognition
- D-Realm
- Deficiency Diseases
- Diminished Human Being
- Eupsychia
- Eupsychian Biology
- Eupsychian Education
- Eupsychian Index
- Eupsychian Management
- Eupsychian Psychology
- Eupsychian Science
- Eupsychian Society
- Eupsychian Theory
- Eupsychian Therapist
- Eupsychian Therapy
- Euspychian Methods
- Full Humanness
- Fusion Words
- Good Chooser
- Good Person
- Good Science
- Good Society
- Good Specimen
- Growing-Tip Statistics
- Hierarchy of Basic Needs
- Hierarchy of Cognitive Needs
- Horticultural Model
- Human Diminution
- Human Motivation
- Human Potential
- Humanistic Psychology
- Inner Signals
- Intrinsic Conscience
- Jonah Complex
- Metamotivation
- Metapathology
- Motivation
- Neurosis
- Normalcy
- Normative Biology
- Peak Experience
- Plateau Experience
- Real Self
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