Psychotherapy

In the book, Why Am I Afraid to Tell You Who I Am?, John Powell proposes a solution to obtaining good communication skills and authentic self-love. The solution is learning to communicate and interact with others, which will result in the development of being one’s true self. He indicates that to have personal growth people must be willing to have self-awareness and be more emotionally open. He explains that people are frightened to tell others who they are because they are afraid that they will…

Hortense Powdermaker’s book, Stranger and Friend, chronicles her experiences doing fieldwork throughout her career. In it, she discusses culture as shared meaning, where context and history give different components of a society social value. Through this process, essential qualities of a culture develop. The theory with which Powdermaker views culture, cultural essentialism, is one which uses these essential qualities as means of identification to form groups of people. This differs from…

Introduction. Family is the basic unit of a society. It is from the family where an individual learns the values and principles of behaviour that he/she will carry to society. If a members of a family has conflict cause by not respecting the rights of each other , this could lead to the breakdown of communication. Through effective communication , members of a family will get to know the role of each member, and come to respect that role. Communication is important in a family because this…

1. In your own words explain what a humanist is. Montaigne was considered a humanist. What do you see in his writing that supports his classification as a humanist? Explain your examples. A humanist is a person who does away with faith and lives for themselves. They wanted to live their lives without basing it on a religion. They believed that humans needs and wants are more important than the ones of religion. That people should be able to express themselves as individuals not as part of a…

The book Competent to Counsel: Introduction to Nouthetic Counseling is a great read for people studying counseling and how to counsel others. It was published in 1970 and it was written by Jay E. Adams. Whilst reading the book, readers will understand the difference between nouthetic counseling and secular counseling. Nouthetic counseling means biblical counseling. The word nouthetic means to admonish, to rebuke or to warn in Greek. Worldly counseling is based on evolution and secular thinking.…

The ability to experience pain and suffering are universally and innately part of human ideology. Margaret Lock and Nancy Scheper-Hughes situate human affliction as mutually constructed by biological, social, and cultural understandings of the body. Both anthropologists advocate for a comprehensive perspective regarding illness and disease in which knowledge of and explanatory models referring to an individual’s illness are fixed on a greater social, political, and cosmic influences. Apparent…

Kopp and Craw’s (1998) seven-step protocol and Sims and Whynot’s (1997) seven-stage model are two protocols that outline stages to be taken by counsellors in working with clients metaphors. Both protocols highlight the positive aspects of staying with and developing clients metaphors as they arise. Kopp and Craw (1998) suggest that clients metaphors represent deep metaphoric knowledge that can be directly explored and transformed in therapy. Noting that traditional counselling methods did not…

On this assignment, I would like to write an essay about the definition of culture and subculture following by the two-supported major theory that I would be using, One of the theory I would be using is Psychoanalysis theory as it would be focusing on the aspect of DreamWorks as discussed in Freud’s book Interpretation of Dream (Freud, 2009) and Followed by Frankfurt school (Adorno & Hokheimer, 2009) in the discourse of culture. (Williams, 2009) According to Williams (Williams, 2009:32) culture…

Better known as Sybil Dorsett, Shirley Ardell Mason is famous for being the ‘standards’ for Dissociative Identity Disorder, DID, during the 1970’s, when DID had not been popular and many people didn’t know it existed. Although the controversies that follow this story make it harder to believe, Sybil was believed to have 16 different personalities, some were even male. With that, Dorsett had fractured into these varying personas because of the physical and sexual abuse that she had received from…

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