Counselling and Therapy Battle

Counselling and Therapy Battle

My personal viewpoint on this question. “Does the person-centred counsellor need to adapt his/her approach or use specific techniques for different client groups or agency settings?” I feel that my personal view point has been dominant right through this whole assignment and I have found it difficult to focus on the situation it refers to, counselling in a one to one environment and find I keep repeating what I am trying to say and keep coming back to another question “What the hell is going on here” and it appears to me that there is a lot of in fighting with in the PC model over who owns the PC label, not that we use labels in the PC approach, and this in fighting expands out in the counselling and therapy world in general to in compass all the different approaches. It appears to me like a medieval battle field, with each approach fortified with in its own encampments and their past successes, statistics and victories like elaborately decorated standards, flying high above each of their encampments. It’s followers gathered around blazing camp fires muttering the words of long gone founding fathers, and refining the finer points of theory until it’s edge is as sharp as a battle axe, that can be wheeled on the battle field of funding.

More Ravings from beyond

Jung’s observations of other cultures and studies of the supernatural? Combined with his academic and medical knowledge tended to make his ideas on the human psyche, seam quite complex, and a bit crazy. One of the criticism of Rogers person centred approach is that it was formulated in a American middle classed environment, with it’s conditions of worth, internal and external locus of evaluations and the actualising tendency may be a bit be for it’s time . Jung looking at what may have been lost in the western world and Rogers looked at what was gong on at the time and may be where this was going to lead. With the focus of human beings more on material, competitive and success driven way of living and the psychological problems this was leading to in the individual and modern society. With the recession of 2009 just starting to bite the condition of worth and external locus of evaluations that have been engrained in to people will really start to torture and torment them. The only people now, who will profit out of the recession will be the drugs companies, who must be jumping up and down rubbing their hands together, think in it is Christmas and the production of anti depressive drugs must be on maxim out put by now. Technology wiping out jobs quicker than we can invent them or train people to do them. So I feel that we are at a point of a big social change in our society and the global world view, our way of being will have to change and the person centred approach and Jung’s may well be right combination for this change.

Ravings from beyond

Belief might be a bit of strong word to use here, but cannot think of a better one at the moment. My belief in coincidences happening for a reason, a universal energy that can be connected to, I like this concept, the belonging to some thing greater. I am not keen on the God Head concept of most of the standard western religions, the one creator. Carl Rogers did look at this later on in his life, is there part of the person that needs this feeling of belonging to some thing greater, I feel that the person centred approach to becoming a more fully functioning person, moving to a more internal locus of evaluation of ones experiences, thrusting in that internal evaluation and intuition is a way of opening one self up to the greater, what ever that may be or what one may wish to perceive it has, which is going to be different for every one I feel. Opposed to being burden down with the external evaluations of others and society, and not realizing what a great repressing weight this is, until shedding it like a snake disgarding its old out grown skin and the freedom this brings to experiencing the world once again, with all it temptations and for bidden fruits, the ball and chains of sin and guilt no longer dragging behind. The author of The Road Less Travelled, Dr M. Scott Peck a psychiatrist and psychotherapist said in one of his books somewhere, not sure which one, but I liked it “religion has made me living” refereeing to the amount of cases he has seen where religious conditions of worth, external evaluations and repression have sent people psychotic, sounds about right to me. Then may be religion is a form of psychoses it self?

A River fuck it moment

Dirty socks and unmade beds,
Un washed laundry at the end of the bed
And oh look, is that action man.
Jammed down the toilet,. Gasping for breath
Hair unbrushed, face in a mess.
Half a biscuit stuck to the side of my head

Oh fuck it, I am going back to bed..

First coffee of the day

Another new day, standing looking out of my window, drinking first coffee of the day, the radio news setting the mood of the world I have awoken into once again. The white smooth blanket of snow covers the world that I view, a stillness holding the world frozen, held and subdued.

The radio chatters of strikes, job losses, recession, doom and gloom.
But this is not the world that I stand here and view.
Brilliant white covers all , resting sleeping waiting for renewal.
Mother natures way of telling us all, to rest, slow down it’s winter you fools.

The madness has started

Well the madness looks like it has started , and the world as I see it is about consume it’s self with out dated values and demands on us all. As I see it, if there is not some sort of social change, we will be crushed under the heel of the faceless money men who are running the show. Time to wake up.