
A Psychosocial Self
| #014 | THEORY > cns687 | 1,481 words | Thus, truth is both constructed and discovered. - J. Christopher Muran Therapy speaks to change,...


Deconstructing Our Truthiness
| #013 | THEORY > cns687 | 757 words | Modernism mirrored the pre-modern “it-must-be-a-certain-way” paradigm. For cultural reasons, it...


When Innocence Was All I Had
| #012 | EXPRESSION > war stories | 393 words | "Whatever doesn't kill me makes me stronger," is a common prisoner motif. Once tested,...


Needing to Relate for Relating to Needs
| #011 | THEORY > cns687 | 864 words | Modernism contends that phenomena have certain objective truths. As an observer, the way to...

Industrialized Wellness
| #010 | THEORY > cns687 | 1,091 words | Too much skepticism may blind the observer to genuine phenomena that cannot be verified by...


Putting Out Fires
| #009 | EXPRESSION > war stories | 814 words | Deviants against deviants Like Andy Dufresne in the Shawshank Redemption, I sat quietly...

What Works and For Whom?
| #008 | THEORY > cns687 | 814 words | In comparing the medical model and the contextual model of counseling, Wampold (2001) does little...

Psychic Structure or Psychosocial Homeostasis
| #007 | THEORY > cns687 | 507 words | In Freud’s psychic structure, I see psychosocial homeostasis. Psychosocial development speaks to...

Knowing Wellness
| #006 | THEORY > cns687 | 627 words | How do we know when clients, or we ourselves as counselors, are realizing wellness? When...

Another Way of Knowing
| #005 | THEORY > cns687 | 941 words | "If we wonder often, the gift of knowledge will come." - Arapaho saying Both psychoanalysis and...