Sentences with phrase «growth elan»

-- Relationships in which both love - acceptance - empathy, on the one hand, and openness - congruence - confrontation, on the other, are experienced (this is the «growth formula») tend to energize the growth elan of persons within those relationships.

When one encounters persons in whom the growth elan has been frozen for many years in a self - crippling psychosis, the inadequacy of Rogers» understanding of such grotesquely distorted personhood is evident.

(13) A crucial decision in applying the growth formula involves deciding what balance between the two ingredients will be most likely to activate the growth elan in a particular person.