st important feature of this treatment is that the role of therapist changes fundamentally from the formally detached to a more supportive paradigm. The client and therapist develop a personal relationship. Rogers is also the first to have introduced the term "client" rather than "patient" in order to suggest a more equal relationship between the client and therapist. This is in keeping with the relationship that is envisioned as the ideal between them. This then entails that the therapist asks clarifying questions in an informal and friendly manner. These questions are then to be experienced as non-threatening, while at the same time placing responsibility upon the client to find his or her own solutions.
             The most important barrier in Jane's situation is the fact that her own personality is somewhat dwarfed by those of her family. The other four family members function as a unit, with Jane experiencing herself as the outsider, and as less important and talented than the others. This sense of inferiority will be my first target in my work with her. It is important that Jane begin to feel like a person in her own rig
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