Second Thoughts
Ep. 69: Nice Is Not a Virtue, and Why Real Love Confronts
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"He was a nice man and a good boss." That is what a German housemaid said about Hitler, and it is the sentence that made Dr. Roger Hall stop treating nice as a virtue. This episode takes apart unconditional positive regard, the idea Carl Rogers built modern therapy on. Rogers wanted to say love, but in the 1950s love sounded too soft, so he reached for a clinical phrase instead. What got left…