I’ve been sitting with Dr. Matthew Bennett’s (2024) Four Quadrants of Personality from his book Toward an Integrated Analytical Psychology. His system borrows from traditional psychoanalytic structures but reframes them in a way that feels less about pathology and more about motion. What excites me is the idea that health isn’t about fixing what’s wrong, but rather about moving and circulating between the quadrants.

Fritz and Laura Perls, the originators of Gestalt therapy, called this place The Fertile Void, a state of emptiness that can lead to something new. This void has the power to destroy us and to transform us.

Growing up in a religious context and with a civil engineer father, Rogers was a scholar who eventually produced “19 propositions” about humans and personality.