# Psychological point of view #
Psychology, there are many theories about how to understand our strong emotions and how to eliminate these spiritual internal frictions.
In individual counseling, psychoanalysis pays more attention to the relationship between current emotions and past interaction experiences, which will help visitors understand their current emotions, but at the same time it will also lose a valuable opportunity to explore the relationship between current emotions and current interaction situations, and may even bring strong emotions to visitors. Psychological counselors are unwilling to make adjustments for themselves.
Humanistic psychology (represented by Maslow and Rogers) believes that psychological counselors need to pay attention to what is happening between the current visitors and psychological counselors, stimulate the strong emotions of visitors, try to understand, understand and support the needs behind the strong emotions, and eliminate misunderstandings. Counselors don't shy away from their responsibilities and problems. With the psychological distance between the two sides getting closer, visitors' strong emotions and psychological internal friction naturally disappear.
Based on humanistic psychology, the form of multi-person group work is called knowledge group. However, due to the overemphasis on the need for mutual respect and support among members of the group, the real reproduction of the interaction scene between members is hindered, and the negative emotions among some members are not expressed and paid attention to; At the same time, it is difficult for members to dispel the spiritual internal friction outside the group in such an atmosphere different from reality.
Owen Yalong Group pays attention to the real representation of members' interaction scenes, which helps members to understand different perspectives of others, but sometimes it does not pay special attention to the negative emotions of current members, thus losing valuable opportunities to explore the relationship between current emotions and current interaction scenes, and even leading to the backlog and mutual misunderstanding of some members' negative emotions.
Combined with the previous exploration and thinking, as well as our two-year practical exploration, the working method of mutual help growth group has been formed. The theoretical basis is humanistic psychology, but different from the understanding group, the moderator of the group follows the practice of humanistic psychology in individual consultation, has no special tendency to the interaction mode of members, and focuses on the needs behind negative emotions; The psychological distance between members will be understood and supported with the elimination of misunderstanding, and will continue to draw closer, while negative emotions and mental internal friction will naturally disappear.
The reason why the interactive parties can understand each other is that when the internal needs of strong emotions are presented, we will see self-doubt and denial, not denial of others.
The effectiveness of mutual aid growth group lies in the reproduction of real scenes, and the understanding between members is natural, not deliberate.