Comparing Carper's 'Therapeutic Use Of Self'

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The nature of personal knowing has been discovered by numerous writers and researchers in dissimilar ways. Carper advise that “it promotes wholeness and integrity in the personal encounter” she continues that there is a constant process toward knowing the self since “one does not know about the self-one strives to know the self”. Chinn & Kramer enlighten that by knowing the self-one can truly understand the other person. As Carper states, none of the empirical categories of personal characteristics and actions provide a deep knowledge of a human being as a person; as a self. Additionally Carper highlights the significance of “therapeutic use of self” which only becomes imaginable through personal knowing. In the therapeutic use of self, the