Seemed to See Mara as

¶ … seemed to see Mara as an object. She is consistently termed ' ct.', is distributed into various descriptive categories, before being conclusively pigeonholed into a five- Axes Diagnoses. Mara's essay, on the other hand, revealed a fully formed human, vibrantly alive with feelings, who crept beyond that diagnoses and struck you as a person who tugged at your heartstrings. This was an I-Thou pose, where one saw the individual not as object but as one who in her full complexity merited your compassion.

Secondly: The psychosocial assessment seemed to attribute responsibility to Mara, making her responsible for consequences and choices of her life. For instance: "Mara currently smokes a pack of cigarettes each day [doing] this in spite of the fact that she has early emphysema..." (Assessment; p.4). Mara, on the other hand, seems to attribute responsibility to her environment for her weaknesses, whilst attributing efficacy to herself for her success.

We see this in the following examples: She attributes her sneaking cigarettes and starting to smoke to her adolescence and to the fact that she had no permanent people in her life. On the other hand, it was she who deal (successfully in her opinion with her anger and who attained her college degree. Finally, Mara's impression of herself seems to differ quite drastically from that of the psychosocial assessment in various ways, most significantly in her predictive analysis of her future.

Whilst Mara predicts an optimistic future, the psychological assessment seems less certain. The latter terms her easily angered, whilst the impression that we receive from Mara's assessment is that she has successfully worked on her temper management issue. Mara sees herself as likable, whereas the psychologist assesses her as having alienated individuals. More so, the essay seems to point to a healthy self-esteem, whereas the analysis tells us otherwise. The client sees to have more than a few blind spots, whilst the psychologist, by reifying the client, omits the details.

Part 2. Disease model -- attributes addiction as a lifelong disease involving biological and environmental conditions. The Assessment seems to view Mara in terms of her ongoing addiction that she seems unable to liberate herself from (first from drugs, now from cigarettes). Behavioral model -- an individual consists of behavior; it is behavior rather than thought and emotion that create a person's habits and alter the individual. We see this with Mara where the pleasure of drugs, for instance, reinforced her addiction. 3. Cognitive model -- thoughts determine the individual's actions.

Mara attributed responsibility of her failure to drugs. Would she have attributed it to herself, she might have succeeded in high school. 4. Ego psychology model -- a psychodynamic model that made the ego (of the triad: id, ego, superego) the dominant factor. Mara's essay -- placing her ego as the central point - might support that assertion. 5. Object relations model -- Psychodynamic where early experiences are objectified in the child's mind and these experiences often remain.

Mara's description of her developmental years does sound as though she is objectifying her family. 6. Self-psychology model -- According to Kohut, narcisstic psychopathology is a.