在瑞士的一个国际心理学会议上,我认识了一个美国人,他向我大力推荐他所创立的“永不放弃希望”的积极心理治疗理论。他讲了自己曾做过的一个试验:将两只大白鼠丢入一个装了水的器皿中,它们会拼命地挣扎求生。一般维持的时间是8分钟左右,然后,他在同样的器皿中放入另外两只大白鼠,在它们挣扎了5分钟左右的时候,放入一个可以让它们爬出器皿的跳板,这两只大白鼠得以活下来。若干天后,再将这对大难 At an international psychology conference in Switzerland, I met an American who recommended to me strongly his theory of active psychotherapy, “Never give up hope”. He told one experiment he had done: throwing two rats into a water-filled vessel that struggled to survive. It usually takes about eight minutes, and then he puts two other rats in the same vessel and places them in a springboard that allows them to climb out of the vessel when they are struggling for about five minutes Rats can survive. A few days later, then this pair of catastrophes