The necessary and sufficient conditions of therapeutic personality change.
C Rogers Journal of Consulting Psychology 1957
"For constructive personality change to occur, it is necessary that these conditions exist and continue over a period of time: (1) Two persons are in psychological contact. (2) The first, whom we shall term the client, is in a state of incongruence, being vulnerable or anxious. (3) The second person, whom we shall term the therapist, is c...