Cat Woman Character Analysis

Throughout Cat Woman’s life, she has endured things that have built her into the person she is today. Cat (for short) is a reserved yet powerful woman. Her inner strengths push her and others around her to be the best they can be. She also takes the lead whenever she can so things will come out precisely as she expects them to be. To avoid bad outcomes in situations, she analyzes situations and circumstances further. Cat Woman’s strengths are being analytical, taking command, and being deliberative in her actions. Cat is analytical because of her relationship with her father growing up. Before, she was born, her father developed a substance abuse problem. This substance abuse problem leads him to be untruthful about most things. For example, …show more content…
From a young age, she witnessed many fights between her parents due to her father’s substance abuse issues. Often her needs were neglected due to her parent’s marital strains. In Erik Erikson’s Psychosocial theory on development, from birth to a year in a half, children develop whether or not they trust people. Erikson believes that the basis of hope in a child’s life is developed during this time of trust and mistrust (McLeaod, 2017). Unfortunately for cat, her hopeful outlook on life was greatly diminished. From there on, she looked towards facts to reassure her or help her trust in what was going on. However, cat worked past many overwhelming fears to make her deliberativeness a strength. Being deliberative makes her very adaptable would things go wrong. She often has a backup plan or other options due to the fact that she has already analyzed the possible …show more content…
She should attempt to detach negative and damaging events that have happened in her life to current and developing situations. In our text, Psychology in Your Life, the book states that Cognitive therapy can help shift current negative beliefs into more positive ones. The book states that this is done by identifying current thought processes and looking into how they can be altered. (Grison et al., 2017) This would help her to be closer to others as well as open to more experiences. Practically, looking deep into the reason for negative thought processes would be bring up some heavy emotions. Their might be minor setbacks initially. However, overtime, Cat will begin to experience a more positive outlook on like. Also, it is reasonable if she does not fully overcome some of her fears and struggles at times. Even if things do not fully resolve, in the end, her situation will still be