ABSTRACT

This article offers a person-centered understanding of courage, based on the classical, organismic-relational perspective in person-centered psychology. Drawing on literature (Shakespeare) and philosophy (especially Aristotle and Tillich), it discusses both the courage to be (and become) – and to belong. It considers courage as a virtue which in its deficiency is fear but in its excess is over-confidence, and elaborates four ways of understanding and working with this therapeutically: in terms of being (in terms of regard and self-regard), process (from fixity to fluidity), encounter (with self and others), and communities (influence and impact). At a meta-perspective, the article also offers a commentary on the issue of belonging in a world of psychology and/or psychotherapy that tends to discount person-centered psychology.

摘要

本文基于以人为中心的心理学中经典的有机关系视角，提供了对勇气的以人为中心的理解。它借鉴文学（莎士比亚）和哲学（特别是亚里士多德和蒂利希），讨论了存在（和成为）的勇气以及归属感。它认为勇气是一种美德，缺乏时是恐惧，过度时是过度自信，并阐述了理解和治疗这一点的四种方式：就存在（就尊重和自尊而言）、过程（从固定到流动）、遭遇（与自己和他人）和社区（影响和影响）。从元的角度来看，本文还对心理学和/或心理治疗世界中的归属问题进行了评论，该世界往往会忽视以人为中心的心理学。