...the process of introspection that focuses on three questions. These questions are as follows: what did I receive from a specific person at a particular period, what did I give back to that person at that specific time in life, and how did I cause that person trouble and difficulty at that during that time? When reflecting on these inquiries, the introspections must be concrete accounts and not abstract when doing Naikan. As for the process of Naikan, Naikan’s duration is done for a week in isolation behind a screen and sitting on the floor. Every 90 minutes and eight times a day, the individual will be interviewed in accordance with the three questions. Finally, the mensetsu-sha, or the Naikan interviewer, has the role of asking the questions, being certain that the answers are kept concrete, never to...
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...Traumatic experiences that cause severe emotional distress often transform a person’s “self.” Specifically, through traumatic experiences the self transforms by becoming less selfish and more reflective of their actions and their past. Human beings have both an absorbed self, the part of us that is primarily concerned with our own well being, and a reflective self, which is our ability to reflect on how our actions affect others. When we withstand a traumatic experience, parts of the absorbed self fades away, while the reflective self matures. We become less selfish and more compassionate towards others. Three literary works -- The Epic of Gilgamesh, Sophocles' Oedipus the King and Plato’s Phaedo, -- show this transformation of self. In The Epic Of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh transforms himself from an unruly king who is unaware of his own death into a compassionate friend who reflects on the idea of his death. This transformation in self derives from the gods’ creation of Enkidu. Enkidu is created to match Gilgamesh. Before Gilgamesh meets Enkidu, he is characterized as a reckless leader, who “tramples his citizens like a wild bull ”(Mitchell 2004: 72). He neglects to think about his mortal side, and rules his people as if his days did not truly count. Once Enkidu comes into his life, Gilgamesh’s unjust actions stop. Although Gilgamesh is still stronger than Enkidu, “they walked side by side, they truly became friends ”(Mitchell 2004: 90). This is a significant for Gilgamesh because...
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...theme of change and transformation based upon the myth of Pygmalion, a sculptor who disenchanted with women of his own time and decided to sculpt his ideal woman out of ivory. The social and cultural background of the two leading female characters Eliza Doolittle and Vivian Ward play a role in their desire to change their lives. Even though conforming to society’s expectations proves difficult for Vivian and Eliza, it impacts upon the way they view those from a higher social standing. This social class distinction makes the characters yearn for more in life, making their aspirations for the future stronger and clearer. Vivian and Eliza undergo successful...
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...concentrating on my own beauty. I have created a habit in tell myself how beautiful I am every time I look in the mirror. I made a short and long term list to help me keep up with my progress. Watching my list advance keeps me center on and therefore, I can see my growth. These habits have helped me to appreciate who I am. I enjoy writing in my journal several days a week it helps to shift the atmosphere from comparing myself to other. A saying I like to quote is “doing unto others as you would have them do unto you”. To me, that quote is telling me to be kind to other people and help them. If this is done I won’t have time to compare myself to anyone. Last, I stay focus on the positive things I do in helping other and this help me to appreciate what is positive in me. The definition of vicarious traumatization is the second witnesses to traumatic events that happened almost every day. It’s where the professional listen to clients tell about alcoholic in their family, child abuse, domestic violence, drug addiction, and rape. They listen, support, and validate their feeling and their experience. The opportunity is open to shed their burdens. As professional helper we second...
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...Trauma is when a person is exposed in a situation where a person is involved in a serious injury or threat to their lives. Every person suffers at some point in their life through problems, injuries, or deaths of loved ones or suffer through traumatic events. We as human services providers will listen to many traumatic events, problems, and suffering stories of the clients that help. Some stories may be worse than others and harder to listen too. Vicarious trauma is the process in which the professional has gone through a shift on the way they see themselves, others and the world do to listening too or getting attached to the client traumatic experience (Kress, 2004). Vicarious Trauma causes changes in the person’s identity, memory, and belief system, which causes change in their personal life, relationships, and the way they view the world and others. When a person listens to the details of the client’s traumatic experience, they become witnesses to the traumatic realities, they picture and they play out the events in their mind, which leads to a transformation within the psychological functioning of counselors (Kress, 2004). Even those that work in other careers, like police officers, emergency medical workers, and firefighters go through vicarious traumas. I as a human being has not gone through a vicarious trauma, and I don’t know of many people that have gone through it. Even though I have not gone through it or I don’t know any person, it doesn’t mean that I will never...
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...Dissociative Identity Disorder Rebekah Cohen PSY-101-031 Bergen Community College Abstract Dissociative Identity Dissorder is a rare condition in which the brain splits the original personality into multiple identities as a coping mechanism for posttraumatic stress. An assortment of different personalities is created depending on what temperaments the person is missing, or is subconsciously recreating in their life. These “alters” can range from extremely aggressive to frail and weak, all without the control of the original personality. The person diagnosed with this disorder can suffer time loss due to the fact that they are not aware when another alter is present. Although there is no medication specifically for this exact disorder, there...
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...Such as the effect of living in a high crime area, drugs, gangs, and being exposed to drug use/distribution and the circumstances that surround all these activities. However, there was not an abundance of research that concentrated on this population and the effects of experiencing trauma as an everyday occurrence and the effects that this trauma can have on this population. The negative issues that arise when this population are left untreated and affixed to a system that is designed not account for such troubles. Honorato, Caltabiano, & Clough (2016) state, “Along with trauma, substance abuse is a major risk factor for aggression, violent behavior, and incarceration. The relationship between substance abuse and violence however, is exceptionally complex and moderated by a host of factors in the individual and the environment,” (p. 2). Therefore, being subjected to traumatic events can manifest itself into aggression that lends itself to an individual that can point them to a life spent in the judicial system. A study conducted by Honorato, Caltabiano, & Clough (2016) concluded, “This...
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...“Choosing one of the case studies that you developed within your group during the class. Explain the cause of the person’s symptoms and construct a hypnoanalysis treatment plan and required outcome. ” Introduction In this essay I will identify and explain the underlying issues which have caused the weight problem presented by Ms. B, as described in the case study below, and devise an appropriate hypno-analysis treatment plan for her, with an attached screed. I will also include the potential benefits, possible contraindications and any ethical issues that may arise, in order to determine whether this is the best and most realistic course of action for her to achieve her weight loss goal. The case study for Ms.B is as follows: Case study: Ms. B is a 58 year old divorced mother of two who has come for therapy because she has a long held belief that she is the unattractive, overweight one in her family. She is the eldest of three children, with one sister and brother. She has always felt like she never received the same sense of approval and affection from her father as her sister and brother did. This made her feel left out from her father’s affections. She remembers that her father often made comments about her appearance, although Ms.B is aware that her father did this unconsciously. In her house growing up being athletic, attractive and slim had value. She believes her childhood feelings of being undervalued have affected her deeply and these feelings have carried...
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...using a Feminist approach most overwhelmingly study the story.Gilman’s emphasis on the importance of language and text, and the fact that “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a tale of mental breakdown, make Lacanian psychoanalytic a natural way to consider the work in order to help readers understand the author’s use of language as a manifestation not of herself but the “other” as a means to safely express herself. As an autobiographical story there exist very undeniable connections between Gilman’s personal life and that of the narrator. A study of “The Yellow Wallpaper” is quite remiss if not offering some of the parallels between the author and the narrator as note of interest. In his dissertation, Pompele approaches the work as an “asylum trauma narrative in which the author gives witness to the personal horror of her own captivity in psychiatric spaces and the forced treatment she had to endure there” (60). At 24, Gilman became terribly weak and depressed. She quickly turned...
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...institutional, and cultural levels. The US-Mexico border embodies and establishes an “us vs. them” mentality with parameters of inclusion and exclusion, creating the ability to marginalize and oppress those trying to cross over. However, from this despicable truth, social transformation is brewing and forming in the suffering of artists existing in the midst of this oppression. Through their experiences, they create art that not only reflects their culture and ethnicity, but also celebrates the very category that is used to marginalize and control, bringing awareness to their plight. Gloria Anzaldua an author and poet, brings awareness to borders in her essay “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” from Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987), using her talent as a means for social transformation. Anzaldúa posits there is more to a border than a simple divide and borders can exist in both actual and implied spaces. Through her poetry and prose Anzaldua cultivates cultural appreciation and calls for public awareness of the oppressed, specifically speaking to her own experience of linguistic borders. She writes “In childhood we are told that our language is wrong. Repeated attacks on our native tongue diminish our sense of self. The attacks continue throughout our lives” (Anzaldua p.39). Anzaldua’s experience of oppression and marginalization based on her...
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...COMPASSION FATIGUE AMONG HEALTHCARE WORKERS A PROPOSAL PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF UNIVERSITY OF THE VISAYAS CEBU CITY, PHILIPPINES IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN NURSING MAJOR IN NURSING MANAGEMENT BY: CONCHITA BRANZUELA BERGADO CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM INTRODUCTION: Quality of life among healthcare providers will matter on the quality and safety of patient care. Today the proportion of acute patients entering the health care system through emergency departments continues to grow and the number of patients in the Intensive care unit also increasing. In emergency room department, the Emergency medical services (EMS) workers are primary providers of pre-hospital emergency medical care and integral components of disaster response. The potentially hazardous job duties of EMS workers include lifting patients and equipment, treating acute injuries or life-threatening illnesses, handling hazardous chemical and body substances, and participating in the emergency transport of patients in ground and air vehicles. These duties create an inherent risk for EMS worker occupational injuries and illnesses. Healthcare workers in the Emergency medicine has evolved to treat conditions that pose a threat to life and have a significant risk of morbidity. Work-related stressors in which Emergency Department nurses encounter are numerous as a result of the...
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...The Ritual Use of Ayahuasca: The Healing Effects of Symbolic and Mythological Participation Biography Justin Panneck is a faculty member for Colorado Technical University and holds a PhD in Health Psychology from Walden University. He conducted a recent case study on the spiritual experience of practitioners in the Santo Daime Church. Based on his ayahuasca visions, Justin wrote and published a fictional book entitled The Knight of Dark Wood: The Last Tree Whisperer, which includes themes related to mythology and consciousness. He has spoken at several conferences in San Francisco on a topics related to Jungian psychology, archetypes, mythology and plant-based visionary states. He lives in Portland, OR. The Ritual Use of Ayahuasca: The Healing Effects of Symbolic and Mythological Participation Mythology and alchemy are significant aspects of humanity that have been lost in the modern world but carry important messages and tools for integrating various levels of the unconscious as well as engendering purpose and enhancing creativity and spirituality. Ayahuasca, and other entheogens (e.g., psilocybin, LSD, salvia divinorum, etc.) may serve as psycho-enrichment technologies (PETs) that enhance cognition, boost creativity and spirituality, and create harmonious relationships with others. The use of ayahuasca in a ritual setting has been found to stimulate optimal living through the integration of mythological, alchemical, and archetypal motifs into daily life. Ritual...
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...their beliefs may affect clients with differing values. In addition, it is equally important to be aware of issues arising from countertransference. Without being fully aware of ourselves, countertransference becomes hard to recognize. By understanding our own thoughts, feelings, and values, these issues can be recognized and resolved (Hepworth et al., 2013). As such, this reflective journal is an exercise in self-awareness, recognizing countertransference, and application of clinical practice. I will begin this journal with a summary of the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde in order to fully expound on the themes of mental illness existent in the novel. From there, I will present my assessment of the mental illness and describe the clinical approach that I would take to address these issues. A discussion on issues of countertransference that arose while reading will be included, followed by an exploration of field work experiences, and current events related to the novel. Summary The novel begins as painter Basil Hallward is near completion of what he believes to be his masterpiece. It is a portrait of a young and wealthy youth named Dorian Gray. It becomes evident rather quickly that Basil is obsessed with him, as he...
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...or be handcuffed and placed in jail. Many soldiers recognized that they “had ‘no choice in it’” (PBS, 1). In other words, vast numbers of men knew to go to the war because it was not a choice but a go with the flow obligation. For those who were part of the resistance, they were arrested and put into jail for not following the law that the United States had implemented. For example, a young man who had an abundance of potential for his life was drafted to the Vietnam War. However, he was “among the quarter-million to half million men who violated the law that required us to register for military services and face deployment to Vietnam” (Harris, 1). He was not given a choice, but a consequence because of his refusal and disregard to leave what he had worked so hard for. He was “Fresno High School Boy of the Year 1963” and “Stanford Class of 1967” with so much potential, but then became “Prisoner 4697-159” (Harris, 1). From being on top of the world with so much life ahead of themselves to puppets of their country, these men were victims of force that essentially caused many to live their lives not as planned. These young men-- many in their early twenties-- were stripped from their future that many of them planned and instead forced to go fight an unnecessary war or jailed in order to help boost the ego of America in return for dead bodies and changed young men. For those young soldiers who carried on with their typically unwanted obligation, the struggle to adjust from a lifestyle...
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...world. They publish their definition in 1986 putting it as the skilled and principled use of relationship to facilitate emotional acceptance, self-knowledge, of personal resources and growth. The aim is to provide a chance to work toward living a more satisfyingly and resourcefully life. Counselling relationships vary depending on the clients need, but may be related with developmental issues, decision making, crisis improving relationships with others, developing personal insights and knowledge, running through feelings of inner conflict or coping with. The above bring one of the roles of counselling as to facilitate the client work in ways that respect their values, capacity and personal resources and an opportunity to achieve self- determination. Counselling provides an opportunity for people to talk about disturbing and troubling issues in their life.it also help them explore their feelings in a way that is free from intrusion, dependable and confidential. A counsellor should respect an individual’s view point, helping him deal with his definite problems, improve relationships and cope with various crises. As we have seen here, counselling covers a broad spectrum; it usually comes from a professional counsellor to the patient. In simple can be referred to as a talking therapy involves talking, listening, reflecting back to what the patient says or clarifying. Counselling does not involve...
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