Substance of the Book by George Hage This book presents a professional autobiography of the author as a professional counselor serving multicultural clients, ages 12-25 years. The therapeutic approach is that of the counselor as artist-mentor and the client personality as artist-canvas. Fundamentally, the client personality as artist and canvas is guided into seeing self as creating and being created. Unfolding in this creative process is the remaking and making of the composition of personality, which is likened to a composition and portrait of balance, equilibrium and wholeness. Analogies...

Reconciliation contains a complete Index including names and phrases as well as an extensive bibliography. The principle thesis is based on the tension of conflict as the driving force behind human behavior and culture. The human being finds the self in conflict with self, context and other. In the midst of conflict, he or she strives to find meaning by making sense out of encountered nonsense. Finding entrapment in the apparent chaos of antitheses the psyche becomes challenged and motivated to the creative acts of power. Reconciliation involves the approach of finding unity in differences...