The technique of mobilizing constructive forces cannot be learned from books and lectures alone. It is an art in which the factor of experience carries a great deal of weight. The guiding principle is to elicit and stimulate constructive efforts in the patient which help him toward self-realization and self-fulfillment; to aid him in freeing himself so that he may continue on his own way. Here, it might be emphasized, we mean the patient's own road toward self-realization and not that of the therapist.