Carl Lewis

Alfred Adler’s theory has an encouragement-based perspective and or approach to counseling. Through this perspective, an Adlerian therapist would take the approach by assisting clients in understanding their own emotions, thoughts, and drives, in which could be affecting their lifestyle. Given this assignment, the potential client I would counsel is “X” who is a six-year-old boy diagnosed with ADHD prior to seeking counseling. In applying Adlerian Psychology to the client I previously reflected…

If nothing else, Bernstein and Woodward were persistent with finding all the information they needed to support their story. One of the difficulties they faced when writing their article was getting the appropriate people to give information on the issue. The two would often find the people who had the information, but they would not be able get their source to speak on the subject. To take it further, when they did find people who wanted to speak on the topic, they would often refuse to go on…

One of the unwritten rules of the world is that one must continue to learn throughout their entire life. Paulo Coelho reiterates this lesson in his novel The Alchemist by teaching lessons worthy of all ages. Through the travels of a young shepherd boy, Coelho teaches the reader about the importance of following one’s dreams. Coelho makes these themes evident through his simple style and solidifies the novel as a staple of world literature. Using his life experiences paired with a delightfully…

The Alchemist Analysis Everyone wants to follow their dreams, but it is never spoken of how rare chasing them really is. The Alchemist was written by Paulo Coelho, a Brazilian spiritual writer. In The Alchemist, a major part is to follow your dreams. The main character, Santiago, does this by searching for a treasure in Egypt that he saw in his dreams. Through The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho displays the importance of destiny, along with overcoming the doubts that go along with that, in a…

Have you ever wondered what goes inside your head? What drives you to make certain decisions that can harm you or save you from a bad one you'd later regret? Well that's exactly what Freud thought of when he made his famous Freudian model. In his model Freud described the psychic apparatus having three parts, Id, ego and superego, that control certain actions you make(Wikipedia, 2017).William Golding seemed to show that idea through his characters and their personalities in his book Lord of the…

Freud, in his primarily instructional work, focuses on the treatment of mental illnesses. However, being a doctor and motivated by reaching greater clinical understanding, Freud acts with a “clinical brutality” (10) that “blinds him to the profound philosophical and ethical significance of his discoveries” (10). On the other hand, Lear, in his “philosophical introduction” (20) of Freud, follows a less pragmatic and more philosophical path. Lear thus chases the elusive, age-old question, of what…

In Coelho’s, the Alchemist, a story about Santiago, a young shepherd boy who longingly yearns to fill the missing void in his life as he sets out for his journeys. He is finding freedom in himself and discovering his “Personal Legend” through these facets of self-discovery and lessons of life learned upon his journey, Santiago is able to mature by virtue of coming of age journeys that change his perspectives on life as he is becoming an adult. In the Alchemist, Coelho explores the reader to the…

The therapeutic goal of Person-Centered therapy is to help clients achiev a greater degree of independence and integration. The focus is on the person and not the problem they are describing. By providing a climate conducive to the client’s self-actualization, the therapist assists clients in their growth process so they can better cope with problems as they come. In therapy, the client will recognize they have lost contact with themselves by using facades and realize there are more authentic…

Moreover, Myers Briggs Type Indicator discusses about Jung’s philosophy and psychology about how an individual develops all aspects of the “self” through self-assessment questionnaires. There are eight personalities and four sets of 2 traits: Extroversion-Introversion, Intuition-Sensing, Thinking-Feeling and Judgement-Perception. In fact, people can have a better understanding about themselves after finishing the questionnaire. Extroverts are focusing on external world, in contrast, introverts…

1/19/14 C4AP Human Relations Sunday Dream on Dreamer Genesis 37:14-20 What are you dreaming about? A reading from Acts 2:17-21 There is story prior to our text today about a young man named Joseph. He was one of the youngest of Jacob’s twelve sons, Joseph the dreamer. You don’t have to respond but just think on these questions. How many of you dream? What will it take for us to just let go and dream? Why do dreams puzzle us? What make a dream a good dream or a bad dream? Dream on…