Buggenal James Biography

Games Laboratory James Buggenall James Buggenal is an American psychologist and psychotherapist, one of the founders of an existential humanistic approach in psychology and psychotherapy. Buggenal by training a psychoanalyst and he underwent personal analysis. But he never spoke about this experience dismissively, although he put forward many provisions that are opposite to psychoanalytic.

A member of the American Psychological Association, subsequently, is the first president of the Association of Humanistic Psychology. The author of amazing books about psychotherapy, searching for oneself and the meaning of life. His quotes are for you: we can teach our patients to start a car, lead and stop it, but we cannot teach them how to find internal motivation to go somewhere.

We can indicate to patients a direction in which they could start an internal study, but we cannot tell them how to develop this process. The feeling of “where” is the patient now and what are his needs for every specific moment is the essence of the art of a psychotherapist. Life -changing psychotherapy is a demanding and expensive enterprise. It costs expensive from the point of view of time spent, intervention in the life of the client, emotional and cash costs.

If I want to be completely alive, I have to accept my limitation in the same way as my freedom. If I try to know everything and do everything, I will be doomed to lose understanding of what I can really cope with. I can’t know everything, do everything, live forever. I can only know much more than I know now, to do much more than I do now, and live a more complete and rich life than now.

An attempt to understand what it means to be really the right person is very reminiscent of an attempt to catch a snowy person. There are many traces and many testimonies of the alleged eyewitnesses, but each such trace and each evidence confuse the search even more than before. Of course, dramatic breakthroughs occur in psychotherapy, but they are not key. Only in the cinema and television films of one insight enough to unravel all life conflicts.

The daily business of therapy is monotonous, gradually, and may even seem boring for an external observer. Even to participants, it may sometimes seem tedious monotonous. But gradually successes accumulate. Parents and teachers, out of the best motives, seek to “socialize” the child so that his own desires, feelings and inclinations do not lead to conflict with the outside world. As far as I remember, I always wanted to be "right." The trouble is that the definitions of “correctness” are changing all the time.

The only thing that remains unchanged is that the right people are significantly different from me. Desires and needs - fuel for the flame of life. We can exist without desires no more than fire can burn without fuel. If we want to live as a full life as possible, we should know our desires and needs as fully as possible. We are from the flame, and its dance is the dance of our lives.