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IN RETROSPECT, the 1950s appear to have been rather self-involved. Those years were thought of as "the age of anxiety." The 1960s have been years of turmoil pressing for change long overdue, a decade marked by a new vitality which gives hope as well as a decade of violence, violence that struck and passed like hurricanes leaving destruction in its wake without any assurance that we will have the will or vision to rebuild the shambles. Either way we feel the pace of time and cannot retreat into any lulling assurance of the permanence of our world.
While I desire to talk about some specifics pertaining to the challenge of psychotherapeutic endeavors, I am very much aware that my own thought agitations belong to much larger stirrings, evident all around me. There is a demand in the air for a radical change in our very approach to life, a life that has its roots deep in the past but has been led to an impasse by technology running away with itself. The popularity of the words process, flow, movement, and communication has a deeper meaning. They protest atomistic, static, machine-production orientation and wish to express the notions that living is a constantly changing, interacting happening, that man lives in close interdependence with his fellowman and his man-made as well as natural environment, and that growth necessitates a care for their harmonious interaction.
I chanced upon the book, So Human An Animal, by Rene Dubos, published in 1968, and found this paragraph: "To be humanly successful, the new ages will have to overcome the present intoxication with the use of power for the conquest of the cosmos, and to rise above