IJSP Number 6, 2024

100 and the psychotherapist as well, as far as possible from the actual issue: the lack of or the weak self-esteem. In fact, that admission is a critical point, a very dangerous moment, because once the mask is removed, the work should begin from the ‘despair’ position, a position prone to major issues as aggressiveness or depression, various dependencies, and sometimes the suicidal tendency. Psychotherapy should, in such cases, reconstruct and reinforce the ego , The client should have something to fall back to, once his or her false edifice is torn down. The psychotherapist as well should have a ‘free line’ to supervision or intervision as an external perspective may often be required. In the end, such a psychotherapeutic intervention should not be an ‘extraction’, but rather a training for increasing the highly important self- awareness that one can, and even should, live in two different worlds. One of those would be the internal world of self-esteem and appreciation of one’s uniqueness and the other the social and professional involvement where self- importance is in saddle as a necessary instrument of survival, a mix over which the client should regain his own control. REFERENCES [1] Dias, D. (2018), The Ten Types of Human , Windmill Books, London. [2] The Wachowskis (1999), The Matrix , Warner Bros. [3] Vaillant, G.E. (1995), The Wisdom of the Ego , Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England, p.19. [4] Scott Peck, M. (2020), The Road Less Traveled , Penguin Random House, London, p. 150. [5] Peterson, J.B. (1999), Maps of Meaning, The Architecture of Belief , Routledge, New York and London, p. 433. [6] Rogers, C. (2004), On Becoming a Person, A Therapist’s View of Psychotherapy , Constable & Robinson, London, p. 110. [7] Fromm, E. (2002), The Sane Society , Routledge Classics, Abingdon, Oxon, p. 77. [8] Lyons, D. (2019), Lab Rats, Why Modern Work Makes People Miserable , Atlantic Books, London, pp. 131-132. [9] Maslow, A. (2007), Motivație și personalitate , trad. A. Răsuceanu, Editura Trei, București, p. 93. [10] Jung, C.G. (1990), Die Beziehungen zwischen dem Ich und dem Unbewussten , Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, München, pp. 40-55. [11] Marley, B. (1977), Running Away on the Album “Kaya”, Island Records Inc. 1978. [12] Waters, R. (2017), Is this the life we really want ?, on the album “Is this the life we really want?”, Columbia Records a Division of Sony Music Entertainment. [13] Fromm, E. (1976), To Have or to Be? , Harper & Row Publishers, New York.