“Case of Ruth” Case Approach to Psychoanalytic Theory From the psychoanalytic perspective, all techniques are designed to help client gain insights and bring repressed material to the surface so that it can be dealt consciously. Assessment of Ruth Looking at the symptoms such as anxiety attacks, overeating, fear of accomplishment, fear of abandonment, and so forth—can be interpreted as outward manifestations of unconscious conflicts that have their origins in childhood experiences and defensive reaction to these experiences that are necessary to her as a child. Ruth is experiencing a split—a struggle between opposing dimensions of herself. This conflict is between the part of her that wants to change and the other part of her that …show more content…
Ruth believes that she is the one who is most affected by her unhappiness. The family atmosphere is strict and controlled, and she found her place by caring for children and others in a way that she believed women were supposed to do. Concept of Human Nature Ruth’s father set a masculine guiding line that was characterized by a harsh, strict, stern, and angry persona; his every stance was authoritarian, critical, and religiously perfectionistic. Indeed, his father is a dominant authoritarian. Ruth’s mother set a feminine guiding line that was characterized by a serious devotion to principle, righteousness, duty, and her husband. The family atmosphere was characterized by formality and stiffness, a rigid consistency and discipline in which frivolity and, indeed, happiness is out of place. Ruth’s personality according to Adlerian Therapy Ruth’s case generates a clear picture of the client in relation to what Adler called the LIFE TASKS of (a) Friendship and social relation, (b) work and occupation, and (c) love, intimacy and sexuality. Case Approach to Person-centered Therapy (Rogerian Therapy) Development of Personality Ruth is especially attentive to how she views herself, including aspects that are evident and those that are implicit and unclear but forming. Several components of Ruth’s self-concepts emerge from her autobiography. In her own words, Ruth identifies herself as the “good wife” and the “good mother” that her husband expects from her. Thus,
Ruth has an intriguing personality. She is very loving towards her family. She will do all in her power to improve the lifestyle of her family. When it appears that the deal for the house in Clybourne Park will fall through, she promises to dedicate all of her time to make the investment work. “Lena-I’ll work… I’ll work 20 hours a day in all the kitchens
Not only that but her questioning of gender role was a concern for her. After her parents were separated, her father’s expectations of her were no longer there and did not speak to one another. After a while, blaming one-self after a separation of the parents is always expected from young children and so Roberta’s feeling that the separation of her mother and father was due to her misbehavior at home allowed her to be not happy. The separation of her parents did not only cause Roberta to feel not happy but also her thinking was shaped in ways that blamed all men to be the exact same way and that on one could be the same. This can be related to what each child feels and thinks if that were to happen to their own family, and unfortunately in our current society there are people that still the same way as Roberta’s father and
Ruth led a life broken in two. Her later life consists of the large family she creates with the two men she marries, and her awkwardness of living between two racial cultures. She kept her earlier life a secret from her children, for she did not wish to revisit her past by explaining her precedent years. Once he uncovered Ruth 's earlier life, James could define his identity by the truth of Ruth 's pain, through the relations she left behind and then by the experiences James endured within the family she created. As her son, James could not truly understand himself until he uncovered the truth within the halves of his mother 's life, thus completing the mold of his own
Throughout the whole novel, Ruth is a tough and brave woman, yet she has a big
The journey Ruth had with Dennis was a very significant journey because Ruth realizes many new things about Dennis. Whenever Ruth was with Dennis she felt alive and free. Dennis was always there for Ruth, no matter what the situation was. Throughout Chapter 23, Ruth goes through many moods, and tones, and they all relate back to Dennis. Ruth talks about many significant events that occurred the time she was Dennis. Ruth uses specific words in her interview to let the readers know what she was feeling.
One of Ruth’s first life altering experiences was her mother’s death. Ruth was leaving to live with Dennis and her whole family begged her to stay. If she ran away and married Dennis she would no longer be welcome to come home. As Ruth got on the train, she discovered her mother’s Polish passport. She later found out her mother was ill, but
According to the marketing selection criteria model of Ruth’s Chris. I find they want to expand their restaurant to the country which people enjoy beef, have high income, large populations and people like go out to eat as well. In addition, the country also can be legal to import U.S. Beef or Australian beef. Therefore, I think Spain and France should be better to choose for their explanation to international market based on the data table in Exhibit 4. Those two country also can help them to test the European market. Because there is no any Ruth’s Chris Steak house franchise in Europe. Then, there are the detail of PESTL analysis for France and Spain.
Ruth expresses an example of faithfulness through her immigration. Ruth is originally from Moab and marries Noami’s son who eventually dies. One daughter-in-law remained in Moab while Ruth decides to return to Israel with Naomi and become a part of the Israel nation. Naomi and Ruth are both considered widows in which makes them an example of the weak to whom justice should be dealt. Ruth gleans in the fields in order to make a living to care for her and
Ruth was subject to the power of two men, first her father then Macon. Her father was a one-way relationship in which she adored him while he merely submitted to her love. Contrastingly, Macon and Ruth’s relationship is filled with mutual hatred. Macon’s early love for Ruth could not displace the love Ruth felt for her father. When that love dissipated, Macon actively despised her, torturing her as much as possible.
Ruth, compared to teens, shows no differing attributes. Fame, yes, is the sole difference, but ideals and importances such as a bonding with family, finding influential friends,
The Book of Ruth Ruth is a story about loyalty, love, and faith. The simple love story
In 1988 letter, Ruth tells Karl that she watched the documentary about him the night before. She explains her envy and wishes she could move back with him. She reveals that despite decades of silence, she has kept every one of his letters. In her next letter, she explains how her edition of Mary Bradford’s diary has become regular material in American lit classes. She talks how she viewed their program Mary as her child and wanted her to “speak with the voice of all other silenced women.” She writes about the anger she felt when Karl tried to use her past as a means to support his
Ruth chooses to confess to Kathy and Tommy about keeping them apart and provides a suggestion on a chance to live longer in order to let her forgive herself about what she has done to them. After the confession about keeping Kathy and Tommy separated, Ruth told them “If it’s you two, there’s got to be a chance, a real chance”(Ishiguro 233). Ruth’s words reveals the motif behind her confession, which is to let Kathy and Tommy get together and fight for their chance. By doing so, Ruth was emotionally relieved from the guilt of keeping them apart. Ishiguro demonstrates to the readers Ruth’s conflicted personality and the fact that she is not an evil person, she is just a bad relationship handler. Ruth knows the love between Kathy and Tommy is
Nora, the wife and mother who held little status in her own home, was a doll that was played with by her husband Torvald. Torvald, a lawyer, gave his wife materialistic gifts but no true heartfelt notions. He ran the house and his workplace, whereas Nora had little power in her house or the outside role. Nora was enlightened to the idea that she has a right to independence when Torvald found out about her fraud. The way his oratory was perceived shows Nora that Torvald only cares about his status and reputation, thus convincing herself as well as him that it was necessary for Nora to leave.
At age 30, she began a job in a brokerage house as a house consel. Andrea’s romantic life wasn’t going as well as her school and work life. She dated different men during her 20’s and didn’t seem to have a long-lasting relationship. When she turned 32, she panicked at not finding a husband and married a man she wasn’t sure was right for her. Her husband was a self-described musician.