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Hermeneutical analysis of psychotherapy as a cultural artifact using metabletics

The world and the events that are contained therein are not static; everyone would acknowledge this as fact. A simple reading of history would say that this is so. Also, due to evolutionary variability, living things (animals and plants) have changed over the course of world history.

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Carl Jung's theory of archetypes and the collective unconscious

Carl Gustav Jung was born July 26, 1875 in Switzerland, where he lived for the entirety of his life.

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Apuleius's Golden ass and post-Jungian psychotherapy for masculine integration

Jungian psychologists, and those who have followed them and constitute the much more loosely defined group of post-Jungian psychologists, have long found a rich source for clinical interventions in the realm of myth and fairy tale.

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Workplace communication effectiveness through Holland's personality theory

Different personality types, in combination with the typical stresses of a workplace, make effective communication an essential skill to develop. Yu (2010, p.

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Ontological and axiological assumptions in Levinson's developmental stage model

The ontological basis of Levinson's model is fundamentally a social constructivist model because he focuses on the ability (and even the necessity) that individuals have to make meaningful their own experiences.

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William Glasser's choice theory and language of control

This book is about choice theory, developed by William Glasser. Brief History of the Theorist; training and background information.

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Social and psychological realism in Manet and Degas paintings

Nineteenth Century Paris in Cafe and Dance: A Social and Psychological Examination of the Works of Manet and Degas in the 1870s through the 1890s

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Stigma and underutilization of college career counseling services

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Optimism and pessimism as psychological traits in caregiving

Optimism and pessimism are considered to be a personality trait, rather than a mood. Personality traits can be distinguished from a mood traits because they are a static part of the persons being, whereas a mood is only a temporary condition.

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Psychological factors in effective advertising campaigns

In the hit television series Mad Men, clever, award-winning campaigns are the brainstorms of boozy account executives in smoke-filled rooms. They banter back and forth, drinks in hand, until someone proposes a tag line or roughs out a storyboard on the back of a cocktail napkin.

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