Unconditional positive regard in the face of someone pointing a gun at your face? Or worse, a flatmate accusing you of making their mess in the kitchen. Isn't it time to face reality and bury Carl Rogers' cloud-cuckoo utopian ideas with him in his grave and dance robotically on it? This episode asks the question, what happens when a humanist philosophy meets Machiavellian power away from the therapy room?

Although James tries to drive a Métro train into the ideas of humanist psychology, to balance the bucket of adoration we poured last week, it just makes him sound like the psycho who still has many issues to resolve (and he still has the audacity of suggesting at the end that this time you won't be able to compare yourself favourably to him like usual). Fortunately James steps aside to let Dan explain why you can regard someone positively without condoning their terrible choices or denying your EXTREME ANGER! Take a breath, pay attention, and spread some love as far as you can shoot it. 

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