Dr. Rogers made sure he was correctly interpreting what Gloria said by repeating it back to her. He would say these things to reassure Gloria and allow her to open up more. Even though Gloria and Dr. Rogers differed in education levels and possibly status, he did not make her feel like her thoughts weren’t important. As stated in the text, “the counselor and client are equals” (Murdock 160). He took his time to get to know the issue that Gloria had about being honest with her daughter regarding relationships with men. He took the time to help Gloria discover the underlying causes of her fear of transparency. Eventually he learned that Gloria had issues communicating with her father as a child and didn’t want to have those problems with her
In Gloria Anzaldua’s letter “Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers” she delivers her message of being a third world woman writer and how there is a constant struggle between conforming to gain a voice in the world of writing and staying true to your culture. She pulls pieces from her own life experiences and works from other looked over women writers of color to make her point and connect to her audience letting them know she is part of their plight to be heard. In my rewrite of the essay “A Letter in “tongues”” I changed the delivery from a letter to a free verse poem condense Anzaldua 's message from Writing Women of color to just discriminated women writers just in general. They both focused use of pathos and ethos but mine leans more towards ethos pointing out that the dominant ideology of english writing being the only way to be heard as a writer that it is denying the voice of writing women of color and that is ethically wrong not what has happened to herself to invoke feeling.
This interaction between the therapist and client led to a significant intervention. When Perls asks Gloria what her foot is doing she laughs quite a bit and says that she's afraid that he's going to notice everything that she does. Perls intervenes by pointing out that Gloria is laughing (which is incongruent with what she is saying and feeling). These and many other behaviors lead Perls to confront Gloria by calling her a phony. It is at this point that Gloria expresses her feelings in a genuine way. She expresses verbally that she is angry and she behaves as though she is angry. This is the first time during the session that her affect is congruent with her mood. This is a perfect example of what Corey meant when he wrote "[Perls] was a master at intentionally frustrating clients to enhance their awareness (2009, p. 200).
The story Social work in the ER by Ogden Rogers was an eye opening read because, the medical field has always fascinated me. The idea of social workers, and medical professionals working together is interesting to me. Dr. Rodgers job in the ER seems to be both sad, but also self-fulfilling. He was able to switch from telling a family member their love one has passed, to aiding a lost teenager to a way out of trouble.
Rogers had a very positive view on humanity and believed that if a normal, self-aware person follows their own internal thoughts and feelings, they would come to the correct conclusions which would not only satisfy themselves, but others
When the dialogue appears in the story its style of avoiding what needs to be said is part of the repetition with Marie or the narrator changing the subject whenever the reality of Carol’s illness comes to light. When Marie starts to describe her new reality that acknowledges the illness such as talking about her new friend at the institution Marie tactfully manages to avoid the situation by changing the topic to their pre-illness reality by mentioning that “Mrs. Smith asked after you” (154). This is repeated again when a harsher reality of Carol not taking her medication comes to light. Instead of facing the reality that she is not getting better they instead change the subject by asking “‘What’s the girl like that is in the room with you?’” (155). In this instance, they want to preserve their new found reality again by avoiding what needs to be said or acknowledging that they do not fit into reality. Then again, when Carol mentions getting a cottage with her inheritance instead of coming to terms with her illness, they skip acknowledging the question by answering “that’s a good idea” (156). They refuse again to discuss that this is not a rational way to deal with her issues and instead give into her fantasy by not acknowledging its faults. Throughout these repetitive conversations, nothing of substance is ever talked about as that might disrupt their reality as they refuse to acknowledge or discuss what needs to be
Carl R. Rogers constructed the person-centered theory by his influences of Elizabeth Davis and Frederick Allen who studied under Jessie Taft as well as Otto Rank and John Dewey (Patterson, 2007; Walsh, 2010). Influenced by Jessie Taft, Rogers adopted an optimistic view of people, individuals are capable of recreating themselves and are not the end products of their past (Patterson, 2007; Walsh, 2010). Otto Rank advocated that treatment of a client be centered around that client and that therapist be more emotionally involved within the process. Third Rogers was influenced by John Dewey who helped him understand and develop his position that self-actualized people live in harmony rather then conflict (Patterson, 2007; Walsh,
Throughout the novel Ordinary People, by Judith Guest, relationships between characters are emphasized and evolved.. Two characters with a changing relationship are Beth and Calvin. Both parents to a now deceased child and a child with severe depression; they grieve in different ways that do not appear to work for the family they are trying to hold together. The differences shown in Beth and Calvin’s grieving process has led them to a downfall within their family.
Before looking at the latter 3 in more detail, it is important to understand Carl Rogers’s view of the person and perhaps what is ultimately bringing the client to therapy. Carl Rogers believed that there is incongruence between the self that is the actualisation part, that has a desire to grow, is open to experiencing in the moment and ultimately psychological well being and the actual experience of the self. He believed this effect was caused
What immediately struck me about the first sequence is the noticeable power imbalance between Walter and Phyllis; in this moment Phyllis is the one wielding it. Looking back on the scene after watching the entire movie, the power imbalance is all the more noticeable to me. Multiple techniques in the sequence subtly highlight this imbalance and hint at Phyllis’ true motivations. The scene begins with Walter driving up to the Dietrichson home. The outdoors lighting is bright, there are children playing in the streets, and a beautiful view of the landscape and homes beyond the street. The car Walter Neff drives is obviously dark against the light scene surrounding it. Later scenes where we see the house, more specifically the garage, it’s nighttime and covered in darkness. It’s almost as if it symbolizes the darkness that entered that home the moment Walter and Phyllis crossed paths. When we first see Phyllis, she’s at the top of the stairs in the front entrance of the home. The room is shaded, except for light emanating from the window that lands right where Phyllis is standing in just her towel. The layout of the maid, Walter, the stairs, and various pieces of furniture all appear to form a Fibonacci spiral that leads the viewer’s focus straight to Phyllis. It’s no coincidence that in
Dr Rogers: “Mm hm. And I guess I'd like to say, "No, I don't want to let you just 'stew' in your feelings," but on the other hand, I--I also feel that, this is the kind of, very private thing that I couldn't possibly answer for you. But I sure as anything will try to help you work toward your own answer. I don’t know if that makes any sense to you but I mean it.”
Freud’s view of human nature from a psychoanalytical stand point was he believed that the contents of an individual’s matters consciousness were determined by psychological, individual and biological motivations Freud, S. (2001).. His worldviews presented interpretations of who the individual was, where they came from, and what their destiny was. On the other hand, Rogers believed the psychoanalytical view humans as never free from primitive passions, childhood fixations, and only the product of powerful biological drives was not flexible enough. Rogers’s foundation of
Mrs. Cogdon’s actions were clearly voluntary acts. There’s no evidence that she was in fact sleepwalking. To assume that Mrs. Cogdon could get out of her bed, leave the house, retrieve an axe from a woodpile outside, return to the house, enter her daughter’s bedroom and accurately strike her daughter in the head twice all while being in a unconscious seems preposterous.
So, Rogers moved from being an expert, someone who highly trained in psychological techniques, to someone who realised that the relationship was the most important thing in within this
Sigmund Freud and Carl Rogers are two psychologists who developed theories on personalities. Sigmund Freud was known as the “Father of Psychoanalysis” and his well known theory stated that nearly all psychological issues went back to a sexual problem. Carl Rogers was a humanistic psychologist who researched the personality theory in the notion of the self or the self concept.
He believed people learn to grow toward self-actualization during their entire life span. Rogers viewed this concept as counseling instead of psychotherapy. Rogers did not believe the idea about the therapist and client as a patient-doctor relationship. He believed that the relationship was person-to-person because he viewed the idea as the therapist talking with the client, not the client doing the majority of the talking (Cooper & McLeod, 2011). Rogers preferred to use the term “client” instead of “patient” because he related the term “patient” to an individual that is sick or has an illness. Roger’s theory was based on his insight into the human condition (Cervone & Pervin, 2010).