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Thus, a human person is:

• Inimitable self-relation and relation to the world;
• This self-relation has unique emotional, mental and existential charac-
teristics;
• A person is self-realizing as a God-like creature in its own life; realized
in the image of the
• Creator, and therefore self-worth is the basis of a person;
• A person needs freedom, development, integrity, communication, im-
mortality, and that is why we are speaking of the main personal “needs”
or “aspirations” - self-worth, self-sufficiency, self-realization, belonging
(communication), safety, theosis.
• All the internal dynamics of personal development are based on the
realization of the main personal needs or aspirations;
• The therapy of a person is the movement towards such personal realiza-
tion.
• Psychotherapy is life-supporting, that means offering help in self-reali-
zation as a human being, a free, creative and unique person;
• Psychotherapy is “returning to oneself”, “returning to God”, “returning
to other people”

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