These three gentlemen all had worked
under Freud at one point in time or another.
They all had been mentored in psychoanalysis as well. Ellis left Psychoanalysis though since he did
not like it anymore and left to create his own therapy method of irrational to
rational studies. Rogers and Adler both
left so they could focus more on the kids of our future generations instead of
focusing on older generations and fixing their problems.
“Changes occur in the perception of
self and in the perception of reality, changes occur in behavior. In therapy, these perceptual changes are more
often concerned with the self than with the external world. Hence we find in therapy that as the
perception of self alters, behavior alters.”
Carl Rogers’ quote explains pretty much everything he felt. If it were not for perception we would not
have a sense of self or a sense of behavior.
Behavior, with enough help from the external world, can be taught what
is right or wrong based on life decisions and what we as an individual/self
take from it. Rogers was big on
explaining that we as individuals take
Albert Ellis was all for talking
about irrationality and rationality. He
was basically explaining that we all have irrational thoughts and we need to do
our best to work past the irrational thoughts so we can work through our
problems rationally. I absolutely love
Ellis’ form of therapy. I agree with him that everyone is so concerned with
their irrational thoughts that they have a hard time thinking rationally. I have helped so many of my friends and
family alike through their problems because they were so worked up about
absolutely nothing, but unless you helped them see that they would only think
that what they were worried about was the truth and only thing going on around
them. Calming them down is always my
first step in helping work towards rationality; that is also my person step
when I start thinking irrationally.
Alfred Adler was basically talking
about his Inferiority Complex and how we need to start working with the
children in preventing and fixing their social mistakes while they are young
instead of waiting for them to be adults.
Adler had a point in saying that we should fix this now and not
later. By the time we are adults we do
not want to change or rather we feel that we have no reason to change since we
have lived this particular way for the majority of our lives. The mistakes that Adler is referring to are
the social mistakes of our society. We
go around calling each other dumb or fat and so the children will grow up
thinking that they are dumb or fat when in actuality they could be of extreme
intelligence or of an appropriate weight.
Why leave Freud’s Theories behind?
These three gentlemen did just that because they believed that change was a
good thing and that development was just as important while Freud thought we
should just be open about everything and use the past to fix what was wrong in
the here-and-now. These three gentlemen
seemed to just want to want to help our children develop more than to work on
the older generations. They believed
that our children are our future, which they are right.
The fact that people takes Freud’s
theories and cast them aside automatically without even considering them is
just ridiculous. The fact that these men
worked with Freud, but in the end did not like his theories is understandable,
but at the same time it makes you wonder what had turned them off from Freud’s
theories all together? At the same time,
can one really not be influenced by someone they had received training
from? These three men had to be
influenced by Freud in some way even if they claim to not follow his theories
at all.
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