Dr. Brown's Argument

Dr. Brown’s Argument Dr. Brown’s talk focused on expanding perception throughout her speech. She started with the importance of connection. She found that when she asked about connection, the responses were typically the negative of what she asked for; heartbreak instead of love, exclusion instead of belonging, and so on. She discovered that this was shame, a humans fear of disconnect, and that all humans experience it. This shame and fear is how people really connect, when they expose this shame and become vulnerable.
Dr. Brown found that those who felt they had worth, whom she labeled as “whole-hearted” had two things- courage and an acceptance of vulnerability. She struggled to understand how a person who was “whole- hearted” could be …show more content…
Brown’s argument for clinical
Dr. Brown’s argument for those who are having problems living is that they need to embrace the struggle because it means they are alive. They also need to try and stop suppressing it because it also suppresses the good. She is saying they need to accept the vulnerability and accept that they are imperfect and search for the good.
Dr. Brown’s theory could be useful in the case of an identified patient. It could be helpful to remind the family that it is important to take blame themselves and to express their insecurities as well as reminding them to find the positives in the identified patient and by reminding them that everyone is …show more content…
Brown’s view does lend itself to more specific forms of psychotherapy such as psychoanalytic. It is applicable to psychoanalytic theory because discusses repressed feelings and Dr. Brown’s argument is about accepting vulnerability instead of suppressing it. It is also applicable to Humanistic psychology because it is about looking at behaviors not just through observer’s perspective but through the perspective of those who commit the acts and dr. Brown argues that one needs to take responsibility for their actions rather than shift the blame. Behavioral psychology is also applicable because it is about learning behaviors and actions through training. Dr. Brown argues that we have learned to numb or vulnerability and insecurities and that we have learned to argue that we are right rather than confess. She states that as a result of our learning to numb our vulnerability the current generations in our nation are the most obese, in-debt, addicted, and so on.
In short this work does have an effect Dr. Brown’s theory does affect clinical psychology. If implemented it could help patients realize that imperfections are normal. It could help them to stop striving for the unattainable goal of perfection and instead focus them on more realistic goals. It could help them embrace difficult situations as opposed to trying to avoid or ignore