April 2006 - Posts

• HUMANISTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY

  When we trust ourselves and we have a more honest approach in life, we are then more open and conscious of our experiences we feel a sense of freedom and in general a more fulfill and happier life. When we try to control and manipulate others or ourselves we loose that feeling of trust in us that sets the basis for a fuller human life. Controlling others or ourselves makes us cynical and changes our awareness of life into awareness of how to manipulate ourselves and others; the game in this case is to try to defeat those we are in touch with, because we perceive them as potential enemies. Life is viewed as a perennial competition and anyone that we encounter in our path we hence think is someone to compete with, in the battle for survival. Manipulative behavior make us rigid human beings with a heavy armor to carry and a distorted vision of life that doesn’t allow us to be happy or to experience freedom. Posted Apr 12 2006, 03:00 PM by amparo with no comments

• PSYCHOTHERAPY

  The goal of humanist psychotherapy is to help people grow and become self actualize. Humanist psychotherapist believe that although people get hurt often, during their childhood, they nevertheless can grow and overcome past problems and negative experiences. There is in them, as part of the core of their personality, a need to grow and become healthier human beings. Part of the main objective is to help clients to grow and regain confidence in themselves. That confidence could also help clients start to act and behave socially and otherwise in productive ways that will also lead towards a growth path, becoming then what they were suppose to be in the first place. Humanist psychotherapy emphasizes living in the here and now. The therapist acknowledge that we come from the past and that we move toward the future, but any talk about the past and the future has to occur in the here and now. Living in the here and now helps the person guide better their growth process as well as to relate to pass and future experiences in a more constructive way. Living in the here and now allows the person to gain a new hope in life. The here and now point of view in therapy helps the person become responsible, and capable of making the right decisions in order to grow and change, moving into a better future. People that live in the past are controlled by it and those that life by future goals do not often check and evaluate the direction of their growth nor to they live a fully satisfying life. We need to understand the past in order to make a better use of it, but the focus is always in the here and now. Posted Apr 09 2006, 03:00 PM by amparo with no comments

• OUR THEORY IS HUMANISTIC IN NATURE.

  Maslow’s concept of self actualization focus on a human dimension of healthy functioning, instead and opposed to the theories that emphasize the concept of psychiatric sickness .We believe in helping people achieve a fully functioning process of life rather than making sick people get better. The goal of psychotherapy in this case would be not to make neurotic people well but to make anybody that comes for help a self actualize person. A self actualize person has a concept of his own uniqueness, they know who they are and experience a greater sense of awareness of the here and now. They like to live in the here and now, as opposed to the past and the future, this brings about in them a sense of freedom and satisfaction which is a characteristic that defines them. Self actualize people perceive their behavior as something that can change rather than being static. They have the ability to respond to things in the here and now and see themselves as responsible human beings with a sense of learning; in deed they never stop learning or growing. Posted Apr 06 2006, 12:26 AM by amparo with no comments