Once More with Feeling

The client notices that her daughters are now ‘daddy’s little girls’ similar to how she once was with her father. This brings discomfort to the client because she might be remembering repressed memories of her own past as a daughter of a hardworking man. These repressed memories do not allow her to make sense of how she feels; thus, it manifests as feelings of anger and guilt. Another example of a defense mechanism that the client is experiencing is displacement. Displacement is defined as…

others. Ultimately, the reality therapist teaches the client to reconnect in the critical relationship(s) central to the client’s discomfort or to establish new, more satisfying relationships. Thus, the client learns to take responsibility for his choices and make more effective choices that will reestablish effective, satisfying relationships—more broadly, to make choices that better satisfy their needs. ” (pg., 365) So, the strategies that are being used in reality theory can be used with…

will know everything once they grow up and try it. However, puberty is the main reason that makes sexual feelings begin, and it starts with kids nearly between 11 to 14 years old. Puberty also start putting it prints by changing kids hormones and shaping kids bodies, that is why they should be taught before they start wondering and doing something wrong and bad to themselves. People do visualize sex as something nasty and horrible, but it is something starts with each person once the puberty…

According to the American Psychiatric Association (2017), depression is “a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act causing feelings of sadness and/or a loss of interest in activities once enjoyed.” In the individual sporting world, failure is predisposed onto the athlete. Regardless of whether an athlete participates within an individual sport or a team sport, genetics or chemical imbalances may influence the development of…

photographs, however, can be more noticeably different because our perception is based on more than just our personal experiences and biology, it is also affected by the photographic elements that our eyes have not yet evolved to cope with and that we can not control. Our perceptions of color in photographs are affected by the same factors as our perception of color in the real world. Our feelings can alter how we perceive color and meaning in a photograph. If we are feeling powerful or happy, a…

Fatherlessness I have been fatherless for 19 years. I used to say to myself “I don’t have daddy issues.” I used to be one of those happy kids in the park, playing with their fathers, without a thought that everything would change. We were the happiest family, just my father, mother and I. But everything soon changed. My father left my mother and I when I was seven, he just walked out of our lives with no explanation. The chime of my doorbell awakens me. “Brooklyn open this door! You need…

walked in and was immediately blinded by the stage lights in front of the place were everything was going to go down. I sang the section of the song "Human" with as much confidence as I could to three tired, but anticipating judges. I walked out feeling with a mix of emotions. Fear, that I wasn't going to get in. Sadness, because I thought I messed up the whole thing. Yet, I was ecstatic to find out if I was going to be a part of the musical. That's where it all started. That was the day I…

getting ready to leave for the airport. Rubbing my eyes as I stood up from my bed, I remember feeling a breeze as I tried to leave my bed. Not wanting to leave my bed after feeling the breeze my mind told me stay in bed so I did and fell back to sleep. My father came by a couple minutes later and woke me up in an unpleasant manner that made me jump out of bed and get ready quickly as well as my younger sister. Once I had gotten ready my uncle showed up at my house with his pickup truck, ready to…

inner struggle of what the definition of normal is. Mike is struggling to let his illness take over and behave in ways he is expected to. Peggy, on the other hand, struggles with the desire for her son to return to the charming 17-year old boy she once knew and the “courtesy stigma” she now faces. In the article by Goffman, “Stigma and Social Identity,” introduce the concept of “mixed contacts.” The article defines this concept as the “moments when the stigmatized and normal are in the same…

Murakami’s protagonist in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, finds his life in upheaval: after having a mid-life crisis and quitting his job, both his cat and wife disappear and in their place, more and more intriguing people enter his day-to-day business. Just as the Greeks created myths to make meaning, Murakami morphs the once literal thoughts of Toru to a stream of consciousness littered with figurative language in hopes of giving Toru a better grasp on the strange occurrences around him. As the…