Forming in Group Process STAGE I: INFANCY Regardless of what events give birth to a group, as it begins, it has to form, to come together. The behaviours in Stage I are initially polite and superficial as each person seeks … Continue reading →
Understanding Group Process GROUP CYCLES FROM BIRTH TO DEATH (Adapted from the work of Richard Weber, NTL, 1982) During our lives, both professional and social, we all have experienced times in being in or with groups that have worked and … Continue reading →
The Psychology of Suggestions What is a suggestion? 1. A suggestion is any single thought, series of thoughts, ideas, words, beliefs, or actions given in any manner direct , indirect, conscious, unconscious, that changes or alters a person’s normal behaviour … Continue reading →
Regression in Hypnotherapy Here I give two techniques for the regression section of the session, firstly using Ideo-motor responses, secondly a free-floating regression. Alternatively you can simply ask questions! While regressing, there are some basic considerations: Clean language is an absolute … Continue reading →
Research in practice Why should research be of interest to a therapist in practice or to the student in Social Science?’ Consider the following issues for a moment and then write down in Work Box One how you think applied … Continue reading →
Harry Stack Sullivan Harry Stack Sullivan puts forward multi-axial formulations of human development. According to his cornerstone one-genus postulate, firstly, human beings resemble each other more than any other organism: âthe differences between any two instances of human personality – … Continue reading →
Karen Horney In line with Adler in particular, Karen Horney strongly believes in an innately constructive nature of the human condition. There is a natural tendency towards positive growth, or self-realisation. Only when this tendency is frustrated, again primarily by … Continue reading →
STRUCTURAL MODEL AND INSTINCT THEORY In line with his structural model, Sigmund Freud conceives of the human personality as evolving in three areas. He termed them id (broadly speaking, the biological), ego (the psychological) and superego (the sociological, or simply … Continue reading →
George Kelly George Kelly is the founder of personal construct psychology. Although his writings are not quite as voluminous as those of most of the other theorists studied on this course, his style has been credited as appealing: Let us … Continue reading →
Jean Piaget Jean Piaget is widely recognised as the most influential developmental psychologist of the twentieth century. His central thesis is that human development occurs through the interaction between maturational processes and the environment. In line with Piagetâs initial training … Continue reading →
