Depth psychology and the interdependent self:
In the part, Kaplan goes off to describe depth psychology and how it connects to the main idea. Depth psychology is used as a framework of the individual and society and how they are interrelated. " This framework assumes that there exists a unus mundus, a latin word that means one world, in which there is no separation between one's inner, psychological experience and the external physical world, but rather that these domains are inextricably interdependent." (Kaplan) The dominant voice would represent society and with that it tries to find the conscious awareness of the individual. This conscious awareness is represented in society and with that its the dominant voice. Those voices that are in the person's conscious are pushed in society's shadows and are stuck there because the dominant voice can not come out when the mind is already in the shadows.
Depth psychology can also be viewed as the interdependent nature of a relationship between humans, meaning humans connecting with society. People are shaped by the pressures that come from society, but society is shaped by the persons responses. "Individual and collective experiences and actions co-create one another in a reciprocal field." (Kaplan)
Therapy: A microcosm of society:
Art therapists and their clients abstract the ideas of society into a microcosm of the therapeutic relationship. This meaning the areas in the world that are unbalanced and need balancing to have a relationship. " [We art therapist] co-creators engaged together with our clients in their struggle, which is ultimately also our own." (Junge, art therapist) Junge was discussing how their clients connection to art therapy and the real world can be an actively challenge or an easy reinforcement. Also Junge discussed about how even though all these problems they hear from their clients come from their clients mouths, Junge and other art therapists treat their as their own, They connect their skills of art therapy to them to help them. They believe their clients and themselves are interrelated and in order to fix the problems their clients are facing, they must be actively engaged in the journey they are about to begin.
In the part, Kaplan goes off to describe depth psychology and how it connects to the main idea. Depth psychology is used as a framework of the individual and society and how they are interrelated. " This framework assumes that there exists a unus mundus, a latin word that means one world, in which there is no separation between one's inner, psychological experience and the external physical world, but rather that these domains are inextricably interdependent." (Kaplan) The dominant voice would represent society and with that it tries to find the conscious awareness of the individual. This conscious awareness is represented in society and with that its the dominant voice. Those voices that are in the person's conscious are pushed in society's shadows and are stuck there because the dominant voice can not come out when the mind is already in the shadows.
Depth psychology can also be viewed as the interdependent nature of a relationship between humans, meaning humans connecting with society. People are shaped by the pressures that come from society, but society is shaped by the persons responses. "Individual and collective experiences and actions co-create one another in a reciprocal field." (Kaplan)
Therapy: A microcosm of society:
Art therapists and their clients abstract the ideas of society into a microcosm of the therapeutic relationship. This meaning the areas in the world that are unbalanced and need balancing to have a relationship. " [We art therapist] co-creators engaged together with our clients in their struggle, which is ultimately also our own." (Junge, art therapist) Junge was discussing how their clients connection to art therapy and the real world can be an actively challenge or an easy reinforcement. Also Junge discussed about how even though all these problems they hear from their clients come from their clients mouths, Junge and other art therapists treat their as their own, They connect their skills of art therapy to them to help them. They believe their clients and themselves are interrelated and in order to fix the problems their clients are facing, they must be actively engaged in the journey they are about to begin.
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