Psychotherapeutic approaches to treating a cancer patient's misogyny

Psychotherapies

If Rape were legal

This is a story about a cancer patient who objectifies women and his life changes drastically for the better after his therapist takes an aggressive stance in one of the personal therapy sessions after a disturbing incident in his group therapy session. This paper reviews the relationship between the patient and the therapist by analyzing their dynamic through the following psychotherapies: Dynamic, Person-Centered, REBT and Alderian.

Dynamic

Psychodynamic psychologists research human habits by trying to find the unseen meanings in things that individuals think, do or state. This needs them to collect huge quantities of qualitative information about individuals, which is typically done with using the specific case-study technique. The topic of the case history is typically an individual who is dealing with a mental ailment and who is being treated with psychoanalysis. The professional gathers details from things the individual states or finishes treatment (consisting of cost-free association and dream descriptions). The product is analyzed in order to determine duplicating concepts and styles which may mirror subconscious intentions and memories. The analyst should translate the product by finding how it is symbolic of concerns in the topic's subconscious. Duplicated dreams about authority figures like authorities policemans may mirror a subconscious issue with the individual's moms and dads. Much psychodynamic research utilizes clients in analysis, nearly anything individuals do or produce is capable of being evaluated in symbolic terms, so some analysts analyze, for instance, works of literature, paintings or even ads in terms of their subconscious significance (Sammons, 2007).

An instance of psychodynamic research is Freud's (1909) case history of 'Little Hans', who had a fear of horses. Freud translated the boy's anxiety as being a displaced concern of his Dad and his concern of being bitten by a horse as a symptom of his castration stress and anxiety. Freud determined a lot of symbolic links that Hans had actually automatically made in between his dad and horses and utilized his analysis as proof for the presence of the Oedipus complex in boys (Sammons, 2007). The following text from the story 'if rape were legal' shows how the dynamic theory was applied:

Person-Centered

The beginning point of the Rogerian method to coaching and psychiatric therapy is finest specified by Rogers himself.

"It is that the person has within himself or herself huge resources for self-understanding, for modifying his/her self-concept, mindsets and self-directed habits - which these resources can be tapped if just a definable environment of facilitative mental mindsets can be offered." (Rogers 1986).

Rogers declined the deterministic nature of both psychoanalysis and behaviourism and kept that we act as we do since of the means we view our circumstance. "As nobody else can understand how we view, we are the very best professionals on ourselves." (as pointed out in Rogers, 1986).

Thinking highly that concept ought to come out of practice as opposed to the various other method round, Rogers established his concept based upon his deal with mentally distressed individuals and declared that we have an amazing capability for self-healing and individual development leading to self-actualization. He put focus on the individual's present understanding and how we stay in the here-and-now (Rogers, 1986).

Rogers observed that individuals often explain their present experiences by describing themselves in some means, for instance, "I do not comprehend exactly what's taking place" or "I feel various to how I utilized to feel." Central to Rogers' concept is the thought of self or self-concept. This is specified as "the arranged, constant set of understandings and beliefs about oneself." It includes all the concepts and worths that define 'I' and 'me' and consists of understanding and valuing of 'exactly what I am' and 'exactly what I can do'. The self-concept is a main element of our overall experience and affects both our understanding of the world and understanding of oneself. A lady who views herself as sturdy could well act with self-confidence and come to see her activities as activities carried out by somebody who is positive (Rogers, 1986).

The self-concept does not necessarily constantly fit with truth, however, and the means we see ourselves might vary considerably from how others see us. An individual may be really fascinating to others and yet consider himself to be monotonous. He judges and assesses this image he has of himself as a bore and this valuing will be mirrored in his confidence. The positive female might have a high self-confidence and the guy who sees himself as a bore could have a reduced confidence, presuming that strength/confidence are very valued which being dull is not (Rogers, 1986). The following text from the story 'if rape were legal' shows how the person centered theory was applied:

Alderian

The Adlerian strategy resonates with social constructionism relating to the sociocultural beginnings of human mental advancement. In addition, the Adlerian viewpoint verifies intellectual constructivism's focus on the significance of people as energetic representatives artistically associateded with the coconstruction of their own psychology. Adlerian concept concurs with Martin and Sugarman's (1997) position that "although people exist in a sociocultural world of individuals, a differentiating feature of personhood is the possession of a specific agentic awareness" (p. 377). Some useful theorists and concepts avoid individuality and state the inescapability of being located in some relational matrix. If there is no self-reflexive person and situatedness is without a doubt inescapable, then it is a spurious thought to think that we can engage in exactly what Gergen (1999) called the "emancipatory capacity of discourse analysis, that is, questions which triggers us to mirror significantly and artistically on our own types of life" (p. 80). The conviction revealed by social constructionists that all that is purposeful comes from relationship has no specific energy for the circumstance one takes place to be in, due to the fact that "the restrictions of that circumstance will not be unwinded by that expertise" (Stanley Fish, estimated in Korobov, 2000, p. 368). Hence, the worth of a relational constructivist position such as Adlerian treatment: It accounts for both the social-embedded nature of human understanding and the individual company of innovative and self-reflective people within relationships. The following text from the story 'if rape were legal' shows how the Alderian theory was applied: